SHOCK FIRING: PAM BONDI OUT AS ATTORNEY GENERAL AMID EPSTEIN FILES BACKLASH CQ💥

Attorney General Pam Bondi has been ousted from her role by President Donald Trump, leaving her deputy Todd Blanche as the acting attorney general until a permanent replacement is chosen.

“Pam Bondi is a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year,” Trump said in a Truth Social post on Thursday, April 2. “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.”

According to Fox News, she was informed of her ousting prior to Trump’s live address to the nation on Wednesday, April 1, and was already on her way back to Florida by the time the evening broadcast began. Hours earlier, she and Trump had visited the Supreme Court to hear oral arguments in their birthright citizenship case.

Bondi’s departure follows months of controversy and public backlash over the Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein files — a massive trove of evidence related to Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 child sex-trafficking case, the release of which was a major campaigning point for the president in the 2024 election.

Additionally, reports say, Trump had become disgruntled with Bondi for not pursuing more cases against his political opponents.

Shortly before her ousting was announced, Trump was still pushing back on rumors that he had plans to replace Bondi, telling CNN, “Attorney General Pam Bondi is a wonderful person and she is doing a good job.”

Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel both promised to release more documents from the Epstein files after joining the Trump administration last year, with many calling for a full release of all documents. However, the evidence was slowly released in stages, with some documents heavily redacted.

Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin was one of a handful of congress members permitted to view unredacted documents from the Epstein files ahead of Bondi’s February testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. He expressed frustration over the limited time they were given and the complications they’d faced in getting the Trump administration to allow them to view the documents in the first place.

“The Department of Justice is under orders from Congress to release the entire Epstein file. They’ve released 3.5 million documents and they’ve withheld 3 million documents,” he said at the time. “These materials could have been released long ago, but they’re just being released now.”

The congressman said he believed the DOJ held up the release in part to protect some of the powerful public figures whose names appear in the files.

“I think that the Department of Justice has been in a cover-up mode for many months and has been trying to sweep the entire thing under the rug,” he said.

Even one of Bondi’s top allies in the administration, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, criticized the AG’s handling of the Epstein evidence in a December 2025 profile for Vanity Fair.

“I think she completely whiffed on appreciating that that was the very targeted group that cared about this,” Wiles said. “First she gave them binders full of nothingness. And then she said that the witness list, or the client list, was on her desk. There is no client list, and it sure as hell wasn’t on her desk.”