When and why did Bondi fail? I have the answers below.
Trump Fires Bondi Appoints Blanche as acting US Attorney General
Here’s the Reuters take on Trump Firing Bondi.
WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump has removed Attorney General Pam Bondi from her post, a White House official said on Thursday, following mounting frustration with her performance, including her handling of investigative files related to the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump had also reportedly grown frustrated that Bondi was not moving quickly enough to prosecute critics and adversaries who he wanted to face criminal charges.
But it was repeated criticism over the Epstein files, including from Trump allies and some Republican lawmakers, that came to dominate her tenure. Bondi was accused of covering up or mismanaging the release of records on the DOJ’s sex trafficking investigations into Epstein, a financier who cultivated ties with an array of wealthy and powerful figures.
Announced Firings
- Pam Bondi (Attorney General): Fired April 2026 after criticism over handling Epstein files and not aggressively prosecuting political targets.
- Kristi Noem (Homeland Security): Removed in March 2026 following concerns over agency management and immigration policy implementation.
- Erik Primus (Surface Transportation Board): Fired in August 2025 following a demotion earlier that year.
These actions continue a pattern of aggressive personnel changes in top positions in both of Trump’s administrations.
Unannounced Failures
- D. John Sauer, Solicitor General of the United States
- Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense now called Secretary of War
- Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence
- Vice President J.D. Vance
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. HHS Secretary
Bondi’s Culminating Moment
This one is hilarious. Play it.
When Did Bondi Fail?
Bondi failed the moment she took the job.
It’s important to understand that all of them failed the moment they took the job.
Everyone in the Trump administration is a failure and all of them for the same reason.
Why Did Bondi Fail?
Trump demands loyalty over the Constitution. Everyone in the administration is expected to deliver impossible results.
Tulsi Gabbard made a whore out of herself by promoting Trump’s war. J.D. Vance fell out of Trump’s favor when he only half-heartedly endorsed the war.
Hegseth was always a war-mongering whore.
Trump can’t fire Vance, but he can shove him aside politically for someone more willing to carry the war torch. That someone is Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Solicitor General, D. John Sauer, looked like a complete fool arguing Trump’s Birthright citizenship case in the Supreme Court.
Regardless of when (or whether) Trump shoves them aside, they all all failures, forced into Trumpian cult worship. That was the understood requirement to take the job. Trump’s only requirement for any job was loyalty.
The end of the line is when they fail in their missions to achieve Trump’s impossible and frequently unconstitutional goals.
Trump will always find a reason to blame anyone else for his mistakes. That’s why Tulsi, Kennedy, and Hegseth will likely not last much longer.
Trump will have a hard time finding replacements because no one competent would fill those positions.
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The last year of her life has been a career limiting move. Her tell all book will likely end with her “suicide”.
Well at lest her humiliation is over unless the dems bring her in after their November route. She was the link between the fantasy world of a delusional demagogue and the real world. Thankfully the courts favor the real world, for now.
I heard she stopped swallowing. That’s an oft cited reason for divorce.
What a hot mess we are in.
“This moment will haunt Pam Bondi for the rest of her life.”
BS. Bondo is a bought and paid member of the Epstein Class. She will live in luxury for the rest of her life while the peons struggle and she will never pay for her crimes just like the rest of the Epstein Class in this country.
Best for her to play dumb and proclaim she doesn’t know anything least she be determined a loose end by the elite.
“Trump will have a hard time finding replacements, because nobody competent would fill those positions.” Competency is not a requirement. Sycophancy is, and there are still plenty of those around.
Zackly. Trump could hire one of the MAGA clowns who post here, get Byron Noem to give him/her a makeover, the current Senate will confirm *anything* Trump sends them, nobody will notice anything different.
Interesting how Vance got booted to the sidelines by Fox News and replaced with Rubio. Perhaps they want to keep some of the trump shit from getting rubbed into him and make him unelectable? Rubio better be careful while his turn is up or his career as a future president will get unraveled as well.
Although as long as our media is owned by Israel, we do not stand a chance to get our nation back. All three networks have the same script.
We can only hope Rubio is not careful, thereby crippling his chances.
I suspect that Vance is sidelined because he is seen as not having the right amount of enthusiasm for the War On Iran.
Wow, there’s a lot of intellectual stuff here, especially in the comments as usual.
I would like to see some of the vermin from Biden’s time prosecuted. Trump can always pardon them after they are found guilty. That would be a small price to pay for what they inflicted on those not-very-sophisticated people who got a bit upset and raided the evil institutions of government after Biden was elected (if he was elected).
Beyond that, has it occurred to anyone that Bondi and Trump may have been initiated into the real secrets of the U.S. Government after he was elected for the second time, and they may have agreed that there is something there that simply cannot be made public, no matter how bad the public story may make them look, and how many innocent people may be smeared or suspected unfairly?
I can imagine that Epstein’s operation may have been authorized and facilitated at the very highest circles of the world’s secret police, and Trump may have been persuaded that it is better that such things don’t come out. It is accepted that some governments use sexual torture and other horrific practices all the time. As far as I know, the MK-ULTRA story and the Operation Gladio story aren’t conspiracy theories, they are history. Now that Trump has horned his way back into the highest circles, as least the highest public circles, why shouldn’t he have made some compromises?
The only way for civilization to advance now is for the public to come to know that government has a monopoly not only on the use of force but on the use of fraud. The use of torture is also a government monopoly. If you understand that, you can eventually understand everything about government. I could go on.
Trump was the victim of an attempted assassination attempt, and another was preparing to take the shot. If we’re being honest, he doesn’t have that many years left, even if he is kept secure. If he was a real leader, if he was courageous, then why should he not be willing to put his life on the line and reveal it all? Well, we know who he is : a coward.
How does that MAGA Kool-Aid taste?
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There are a lot who are not part of the Republican crowd like Ehud Barak who likely are being protected. Notice the most vocal Democrats like Congressman Dan Goldman and Senator Schumer never mention Epstein’s ties to Israel ?
My guess is if they take down Trump then the Ehud Barak’s get exposed even if NY Times, etc tries to put a blackout on that story.
I think Epstein avoided Netanyahu because Netanyahu is much more of an asshole and a lot less suitable for Epstein’s world than Dick Cheney.
Thanks for those thoughts. I like real criticism a lot better than the usual cheap shots.
“I would like to see some of the vermin from Biden’s time prosecuted.”
For what? And what is your evidence?
I can think of many crimes, but they are the same crimes that the Trump Administration is also guilty of.
he demands absolute loyalty, and gives none.
You’re on the front seat if you buy 200million $Trump meme.
Well, if he cannot find competent people to fill the soon-to-be vacancies, that is only negative for the world.
Trump had competent people in his first term – and fired damned near all of them because they were smarter than him.
I had to look up the phrasing of Hegseth as “Secretary of Defense now called Secretary of War”. How interesting that that is the precisely correct designation. Only Congress has the constitutional authority to permanently rename a federal department, and Congress has not changed the Department of Defense name. So contracts, treaties, court filings, and budget appropriations must still use “Department of Defense” to be legally binding. Like so much of the Trump administration, even a name change has been done incompetently.
Holy War Hegseth is truly something to behold. when his tenure is up, he can become a TV evangelist.
Indeed! God’s warrior for conquest. Can the American Inquisition be far behind? I’ll bet A Handmaid’s Tale is his favorite movie. Except he’ll make sure the ending is different.
Bondi reportedly begged for a continuance of her AG position. Maybe there will be a little vindictiveness and payback in her scheduled congressional testimony on the ‘X’ files. Remember when MTG was double-crossed on ‘America First’ issues? Could be entertaining.
She would find herself in prison if she turned on trump and released the unreacted Epstein files. Anyone with a shred of decency would get them into the publics hands so we could see trump ad the other oligarchs for what they are.
like in high school, the same dog that ate her homework…
And Hegseth has fired the Army’s top officer. And replaced him with someone who is willing to sacrifice our soldiers to stroke Trump’s ego.
From USA Today:
“Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth asked Gen. Randy George, the U.S. Army’s top officer, to step down from his position and immediately retire, according to a Pentagon official.
George had served as the chief of staff of the Army since 2023. Hegseth wanted someone who could better implement his and President Donald Trump’s vision in the Army, according to CBS News.”
Perhaps this means “boots on the ground” soon.
Wow. Interesting!
He might sacrifice some to save face.
Great analysis, and bonus points for calling them what they all are : failed whores.
Can you really fail at being a whore? Or are you just less good at it?
A fascinating philosophical question. Like whether it is possible to be a lapsed Unitarian.
I guess, in the “failed whore” case, you can’t be arrested for selling sex if nobody will pay for it.
It’s really a shame we have further yet to fall as the Chief Pedophile of the United States makes the country into a banana republic. A real dictator would have useless scum like Bondi taken out and shot after she outlived her uselessness, I mean usefulness.
So Blondi had an ounce of honor?
“No.” 😉
You need to add the Nazi Stephen Miller to the unannounced failure list Mish.
Outside of Hogsbreath, he would be my top person next on the firing list.
First time I learned of that guy was when a video circulated with some crazy guy at a funeral orating in tongues.
The video was in color. The last time I watched something like that the cameras were all B&W and the orators wore uniforms and millions died.
40 nations discuss opening the Strait, per the Guardian, USA not invited.
I dont think they’re talking about forcing the Strait open, they will pay Iran the toll.
Trump screwed the pooch on this one.
International prices will go up long-term to meet the toll. US oil will follow prices up but be pure profit for US producers. Buy Exxon.
Trump is simply seeking to distract attention from the war and Epstein.
Well, she’s no Janet Reno, I can tell you that.
And there was Janet Reno’s Dance Club too
I find the entire dissing of the late Janet Reno patently unfair. You all forget she ONLY took the role after Zoe Baird got dumped for the role over failure to pay a temporary small change FICA tax for a TEMP. Now, a hell of a lot more problems get by.
It should have been Zoe Baird; and I find the hendicapped Reno dissing unfair. She really just tried to do her job. And who really gives a flying **** over Waco anyway? It had to end soon.
BREAKING: Trump blames high US gas prices on Iran, for defending itself against USreal aggression
We’re on our way to a global recession and possibly a global depression, that’s not hyperbole that’s simple fact. No one is talking about bankruptcies today but give it another 30 days and that’s all we’ll be talking about.
Airlines first then shipping then anything else heavily dependent on oil.
Trump/GOP/Israel will take 100% of the blame.
Got PUTS?
I think it’ll be a depression as the lunatics are running the asylum.
I lived in Florida when Bondi was Attorney General.
She’s a moron.
Her sole qualification, other than a law license, was a bottomless pit of sycophancy. The only problem with getting rid of her is that the replacement will be even worse.
No joke, her replacement right now is one of Trump’s personal attorneys.
What’s she look like?
It’s a him, but no guarantee he doesn’t like to put on wigs and fake tits and get degraded!
He is already used to having his nose up Trumps butt!
Bondi’s turned brown for a while!
I don’t know why Trump needs a cabinet at all. He doesn’t listen to anybody, even career sycophants such as Bondi.
If Tulsi had a shred of self-respect she’d have quit a year ago. Maybe Trump keeps her around out of sheer malice. But it’s only a matter of time.
He needs people to blame for his incompetence.
Simple so they can sit there and tell him how great he is.
Its like a fox version of entourage .
“Reputational Rehab” surgery will fail. It’s terminal. Turn off Trump’s life support he’s wasting electricity!
Personally, I like Tulsi Gabbard. Maybe the best thing for her would be to get canned by Trump so she can distance herself from him & his remaining cohorts.
Too late. I was a huge Tulsi fan. A big disappointment. She should have resigned. Instead she in involved in voting scheme madness.
I was disappointed she got that job in the first place. She should have asked for a senate endorsement instead.
Mike you are right – no one with an ounce of integrity, self respect or intelligence would want be servile to a egomaniacal megalomaniac like Trump.
Trump is without moral integrity, or an ounce of respect or compassion for anyone.
And Mike – i think maybe you should consider running for president.
Working for Trump is like selling your soul to the devil. Initially you get fame, power, money but once the devil is done with you, you’re discarded like garbage and your soul is gone.
While Trump may be quantitatively egomaniacal, qualitatively he is little different from any other politician.
Politics is, in its essence, zero sum. If you’re not the winner, you’re a loser. But life is mutual consent, mutual advantage. Life is cooperation and we both walk away better for having interacted.
Decent people don’t go into politics. They’re busy living their lives.
Not really. The difference with Trump is he’s an ignorant malignant narcissist, racist and misogynist. Very few politicians are actually that evil. Regardless though, I understand the people who support him find all of that appealing, like many Germans loved Hitler or many N. Koreans love Kim Jung-Oh. There’s a reason Trump “loves the uneducated”.
I did announce my candidacy multiple elections
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https://mishtalk.com/uncategorized/qe-to-infinity-and-beyond-mish-for-president/
August 2015: Mish for President: Officially Throwing My Hat Into the Ring; 11 Questions, 11 Answers
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I wrote in Mish for President
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When you have a guy who thinks his will can dominate over facts, of course the people who have to rub right up against the real world are going to eventually disappoint him and they will be removed
The bubble must be maintained
I would say that Trump is likely well aware that what he says has no necessary relationship to any fact, but he does not care.
This is what Professor Frankfurt styled “bullshit” in his magnum opus “On Bullshit”.
To the sociopath, truth, logics, facts, evidence and morality are of interest only to the result that they can be weaponized. If the facts are not useful at the moment, Trump simply makes something up. Because he is powerful, he can do this.
TOP post, Mish. One of your best.
Thanks
Does anyone expect the next body to actually release the unredacted Epstein files are just go another year with obstruction before they are forced out and replaced and so on for 4 years?
I suspect that the real files are somewhere in Israel. The DoJ only has what nobody managed to destroy.
Do you visit simplicius and moonofalabama with the same handle? Or coincidence?
If you are the same, good to see you here. Cheers.
She was even a failure at politically persecuting Trump’s enemies, which I did not think was possible to fail that badly at. We all know that’s the REAL reason she was sent to pasture.
Trump’s first administration was a revolving door of fools and tools going in and coming out at the drop of a Trump tantrum. Why did people expect his second administration to be any different?
Oh yeah, first post. Almost 🙂
He will find a replacement. I have a wacko down the street that keeps jonesing for a civil war with people getting shot in the street. They don’t have to be qualified, just passionate. Look at Hegseth – he’s cuckoo for war crimes.
Holy cow! Another 3-star Mishelin award stamped on this post. Keep ’em coming Mish!
Do worry, Trump will find a way to make things even worse.™
I’m long Mishelin star factories.
Careful! Trump likes to bomb factories…
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Bondi was garbage before become AG as were most of the others. Least serious administration ever
It should have been a sign that she was easily confirmed. Whereas the intelligent Matt Gaettz was a Uniparty non-starter.
The timing coincides with her office getting embarrassed in front of the Supreme Court, with Trump in attendance Trying to argue the 14th amendment doesn’t read as plainly as it does was a no-win situation. The government would have to argue it does not have jurisdiction (subject to the jurisdiction thereof) over illegal immigrants which would seemingly (IANAL) mean they’re immune to prosecution for any crime.
You could probably find a hair splitting argument that the child must be born in an actual ‘State’, but aside from that, jus soli citizenship is pretty clearly part of the constitution.
That being said, Pam Bondi was very bad at her job..
She was –
Killing the clock on Epstein before the war
Ringing the bell at the DJIA top