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Pam Bondi? Pam Bye-Bye: President Donald Trump conscionable fired the Attorney General.
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She's the 2nd furniture subordinate to get the footwear successful caller weeks, aft Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem was replaced by Markwayne Mullin past month. Instead, Trump said that Noem was to beryllium "Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas."
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In a station connected Truth Social, Trump announced that Deputy AG Todd Blanche volition beryllium stepping up successful the interim, writing, "Pam Bondi is simply a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served arsenic my Attorney General implicit the past year. Pam did a tremendous occupation overseeing a monolithic crackdown successful Crime crossed our Country, with Murders plummeting to their lowest level since 1900. We emotion Pam, and she volition beryllium transitioning to a overmuch needed and important caller occupation successful the backstage sector, to beryllium announced astatine a day successful the adjacent future."
Well, sources told CNN that the reasons for Trump's frustrations with Bondi were a small much pointed. For one, helium seemingly isn't thrilled with her handling of the Epstein files. Now, the House Oversight Committee was scheduled to depose her connected April 14 implicit the Justice Department’s handling of the investigation, which she is inactive "legally obligated" to bash (though, according to the New York Times, she hasn't really committed to it yet).
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Sources further told CNN that Trump "fumed that she has not investigated oregon prosecuted capable of his governmental opponents." Apparently, this includes erstwhile CIA Director John Brennan. However, arsenic the work points out, it's not needfully casual to bash truthful — erstwhile FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James were some indicted, but those indictments were dismissed by a judge.
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CNN's reporting is echoed by the New York Times, which added, "He has besides complained astir her shortcomings arsenic a communicator and TV surrogate — a relation helium thought would suit her talents. Ms. Bondi spent overmuch of the past time making her lawsuit to enactment successful the cabinet, according to 2 radical acquainted with the situation."
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