{"id":70712,"date":"2026-04-02T12:55:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/trump-fires-pam-bondi-a-loyalist-and-ally-as-attorney-general\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T12:55:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:55:23","slug":"trump-fires-pam-bondi-a-loyalist-and-ally-as-attorney-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/trump-fires-pam-bondi-a-loyalist-and-ally-as-attorney-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump fires Pam Bondi, a loyalist and ally, as attorney general"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bondi earned president\u2019s ire over handling release of Epstein files and failing to prosecute his political enemies<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/apr\/02\/trump-white-house-ballroom-republicans-dhs-funding-deal-tariffs-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> has fired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/pam-bondi\">Pam Bondi<\/a>, the US attorney general, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/bondi-fired-attorney-general-trump-rcna266378\">according <\/a>to multiple reports, dismissing a loyalist who reshaped the justice department, but still failed to please a president fixated on prosecuting political enemies and frustrated with the politically explosive release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPam Bondi is a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year. Pam did a tremendous job overseeing a massive crackdown in Crime across our Country, with Murders plummeting to their lowest level since 1900,\u201d Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. \u201cWe love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future.\u201d He added that Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, would serve as acting attorney general.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/02\/trump-pam-bondi-attorney-general\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bondi earned president\u2019s ire over handling release of Epstein files and failing to prosecute his political enemies US politics live \u2013 latest updates Sign up for the Breaking News US email Donald Trump has fired Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, according to multiple reports, dismissing a loyalist who reshaped the justice department, but still &#8230; <a title=\"Trump fires Pam Bondi, a loyalist and ally, as attorney general\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/trump-fires-pam-bondi-a-loyalist-and-ally-as-attorney-general\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump fires Pam Bondi, a loyalist and ally, as attorney general\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}