Attorney General Pam Bondi was removed from her post on Thursday, President Donald Trump announced.
In a social media publication, Trump said Bondi "did a tremendous job overseeing a massive crackdown in Crime across our Country, with Murders plummeting to their lowest level since 1900."
"We 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, and our Deputy Attorney General, and a very talented and respected Legal Mind, Todd Blanche, will step in to serve as Acting Attorney General," Trump added.
The imminent departure had been reported by different outlets on Thursday. Citing a person familiar with the situation, Politico noted that Trump has met with EPA head Lee Zeldin and discussed the possibility that he replace her. He worked as an attorney in New York earlier in his career and was a House representative during the first Trump administration.
The outlet went on to detail that Bondi had been under pressure over the past months as a result of the handling of the Epstein Files, and that Trump has been frustrated over the Department of Justice over her failure to prosecute his political enemies.
A person familiar with the situation tells me that Pam Bondi will be out as AG imminently, confirming scoops from @CNN and @nytimes.
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Elsewhere, CNN had already reported that Trump has asked allies about whether he should replace Bondi.
The outlet detailed that Trump began considering the possibility of replacing Bondi in January as Jeffrey Epstein's ties with the president dominated the national conversation. It then subsided along with the topic's dominance of the headlines, but Trump refloated the issue this week.
