{"id":70735,"date":"2026-04-02T15:55:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/democrats-cheer-trumps-firing-of-pam-bondi-and-attack-epstein-files-cover-up\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:55:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:55:50","slug":"democrats-cheer-trumps-firing-of-pam-bondi-and-attack-epstein-files-cover-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/democrats-cheer-trumps-firing-of-pam-bondi-and-attack-epstein-files-cover-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats cheer Trump\u2019s firing of Pam Bondi and attack Epstein files \u2018cover-up\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hakeem Jeffries predicts Pete Hegseth could be next as party alarmed by damage done by \u2018terrible\u2019 attorney general<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/02\/trump-pam-bondi-attorney-general\">Trump fires Pam Bondi, a loyalist and ally, as attorney general<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\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<\/ul>\n<p>With quips, memes and jabs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/democrats\">Democrats<\/a> cheered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> firing of attorney general Pam Bondi on Thursday, while the president\u2019s Republican allies praised her relatively brief tenure overseeing the justice department.<\/p>\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/02\/trump-pam-bondi-attorney-general\">announced Bondi\u2019s departure<\/a> on Truth Social, saying: \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 Her deputy, Todd Blanche, will take over as acting attorney general.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/02\/trump-pam-bondi-reaction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hakeem Jeffries predicts Pete Hegseth could be next as party alarmed by damage done by \u2018terrible\u2019 attorney general Trump fires Pam Bondi, a loyalist and ally, as attorney general US politics live \u2013 latest updates With quips, memes and jabs, Democrats cheered Donald Trump\u2019s firing of attorney general Pam Bondi on Thursday, while the president\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"Democrats cheer Trump\u2019s firing of Pam Bondi and attack Epstein files \u2018cover-up\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/democrats-cheer-trumps-firing-of-pam-bondi-and-attack-epstein-files-cover-up\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Democrats cheer Trump\u2019s firing of Pam Bondi and attack Epstein files \u2018cover-up\u2019\">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-70735","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\/70735","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=70735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}