April 02, 2026 11:41 AM UTC

Buh Bye, Pam Bondi

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• by: Colorado Pols

UPDATE: Rep. Brittany Pettersen waves bye to Pam Bondi:

AG Pam Bondi has failed our country by overseeing the largest White House cover-up in history to protect child sex predators — including Donald Trump—from accountability. She is a disgrace and should have never held her position.

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— U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen (@pettersen.house.gov) April 2, 2026 at 11:28 AM

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CNN breaks big news, another female member of Trump’s Legion of Doom Cabinet takes the walk of shame:

President Donald Trump has ousted Pam Bondi as attorney general, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.

She will be replaced for now by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, the source said.

Trump had in recent days talked to allies about the possibility of firing Bondi, and he talked with her personally on Wednesday about the possibility it would happen, sources said. In the conversation, which one source described as “tough,” Trump indicated Bondi was not long for her role and he would be replacing her in the near future, sources said.

FOX News reports that the next in line for the job of Trump’s personal attorney the nation’s chief law enforcement officer is the current head of the EPA and ardent loyalist Lee Zeldin:

Trump is reportedly considering replacing Bondi with Environmental Protection Agency Director Lee Zeldin, according to the sources familiar with the matter. Trump held a meeting with Zeldin at the White House Tuesday to discuss wildfire and prevention, where talks of the transition also unfolded, according to an individual familiar with the meeting.

While we wait for the dust to settle on this latest hard fall for one of Trump’s closest cronies, we want to extend significant credit for holding now-former AG Pam Bondi accountable to Colorado’s Rep. Joe Neguse, whose epic blistering exchange with Bondi in a House Judiciary Committee hearing in February over violent January 6th offenders hired by the Department of Justice laid bare the administration’s cardinal hypocrisy with the whole world watching:

NEGUSE: The man in that video. The one who was in the police worn bodycam footage. The one allegedly yelling “kill ‘em” at police officers on January 6th. His name is Jared Wise.

BONDI: He does work for us.

NEGUSE: He works for you at the Department of Justice?

BONDI: Yes. He does.

NEGUSE: This is an individual whom a federal grand jury indicted for two felonies and four misdemeanors related to his participation in the attack on January 6th. One of those charges was forcibly assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding, intimidating, and interfering with police with the intent to commit another felony. This is who you choose as the chief law enforcement officer of the United States of America to hire at the Department of Justice. Someone on video yelling “kill ‘em” at police officers, right?

BONDI: I believe he was pardoned by President Trump.

NEGUSE: Oh, he was pardoned. You’re right. You’re right. Pardoned by President Trump for his offense. Pardoned for yelling “kill ‘em” at police officers. And yet you expect hardworking police officers across the country to believe that you take law enforcement seriously. You could imagine the reaction of so many folks across the country hearing the chief law enforcement officer of the United States refuse to even condemn what that individual, whom you’ve now hired, did.

Bondi’s high-profile bungling of the release of the Epstein Files led to a broad loss of confidence in her among conspiracy-minded MAGA Republicans, who turned their fury on Bondi as a way of avoiding the increasingly obvious culpability of President Donald Trump. Trump initially praised Bondi’s combative appearances before Congress, in which Bondi repeatedly pivoted away from hard questions to effusive praise for Trump and Trumpian insults directed at Democrats. But Bondi’s bravado came across to the voting public as defensive and unpersuasive, and above all incompatible with the impartial role of the nation’s chief law enforcement officer.

Would Matt Gaetz have lasted as long? Will Zeldin or whoever Trump chooses next for all the wrong reasons be any better?

The answer to both of these question is, probably not.