{"id":70798,"date":"2026-04-03T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/bondi-out-blanche-in-what-will-a-new-justice-department-head-mean-for-the-epstein-investigation\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T12:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:00:15","slug":"bondi-out-blanche-in-what-will-a-new-justice-department-head-mean-for-the-epstein-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/bondi-out-blanche-in-what-will-a-new-justice-department-head-mean-for-the-epstein-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Bondi out, Blanche in: what will a new justice department head mean for the Epstein investigation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bondi, reportedly ousted due to her botched handling of Epstein files, is still set to testify before Congress on 14 April<\/p>\n<ul>\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 to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As news emerged this week presaging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s dismissal of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/pam-bondi\">Pam Bondi<\/a>, one of his motivations reportedly related to her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/02\/trump-pam-bondi-attorney-general\">handling<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/jeffrey-epstein\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> investigative files.<\/p>\n<p>While the new acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5814564-todd-blanche-pam-bondi-doj-epstein-files\/\">insisted<\/a> he had \u201cnever\u201d heard the president say \u201cthat anything that happened to her had anything to do with the Epstein files\u201d, it\u2019s clear the issue has dogged Bondi throughout her tumultuous tenure.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/03\/pam-bondi-justice-department-epstein-files\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bondi, reportedly ousted due to her botched handling of Epstein files, is still set to testify before Congress on 14 April Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox As news emerged this week presaging Donald Trump\u2019s dismissal of Pam Bondi, one of his motivations reportedly related to &#8230; <a title=\"Bondi out, Blanche in: what will a new justice department head mean for the Epstein investigation?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/bondi-out-blanche-in-what-will-a-new-justice-department-head-mean-for-the-epstein-investigation\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bondi out, Blanche in: what will a new justice department head mean for the Epstein investigation?\">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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70798","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=70798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}