Pam Bondi has been fired as Donald Trump’s Attorney General – but she sowed the seeds of her own demise a long time ago.
Last February, after just a month in the job, Bondi said that Jeffrey Epstein’s list of clients, aka the “Epstein Client List” was “sitting on my desk right now” for her to review.
“That’s been a directive by President Trump,” Bondi said.
For years Trump’s supporters had been salivating at the prospect of Epstein’s powerful friends finally being brought to justice.
From the darkest QAnon-obsessed corners of the Internet to Mar-a-Lago, the President’s allies were thinking: “This is it!”
Only it wasn’t, and for Bondi it was the start of a nightmare that would culminate in Trump sacking her on Thursday.
“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”, Trump said in a post on social media, the lukewarm tone an indication of how far Bondi had fallen in his estimation.
Bondi’s departure was a result of a combination of missteps over the Epstein files and being given an impossible job: jailing anyone that Donald Trump doesn’t like.
The Epstein errors started with Bondi bragging about the “Client List”, swiftly followed by releasing the “First Phase” of the files to a group of right wing influencers who proudly held up their folders as they exited the White House.
The problem for Bondi was that the material was almost exclusively already in the public domain and, in some cases, had been available for more than a decade.
Phase two never materialised and instead we had the bombshell email from the DOJ at the start of July last year saying nobody else would be charged related to Epstein – and the case was effectively being closed.
The backlash to that was so fierce that it sparked a rare show of bipartisanship in Congress to pass the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which led to more than three million Epstein documents being made public.
For Trump, the result was endless stories about his friendship with Epstein like the raunchy note he wrote for the paedophile’s 50th birthday card and the claims – strongly denied by the White House – that he sexually assaulted a 13-year-old.
Trump couldn’t even visit a Ford factory in Detroit without a worker shouting “paedophile protector” at him: the President flipped the heckler the bird and told him: “F*** you!”
Bondi’s appearance before Congress in February only made things worse where she refused to look several Epstein victims in the eye, even though they were sitting a few rows behind her.
In response to intense questioning by Democrats, Bondi’s bizarre defence was that they should be quiet because “the Dow is up over 50,000 right now”.
You can’t fault Bondi for effort when it came to her main job: taking revenge against the President’s opponents.
Prominent individuals who had spoken out against Trump became the target of flimsy criminal investigations which led to scores of federal prosecutors quitting and plunging morale at the FBI.
Under Bondi’s watch, prosecutors tried to indict Former FBI director James Comey on mortgage fraud charges which a judge threw out because the prosecutor she appointed was in the job illegally.
Pam Bondi at the White House on 29 January 2026 (Photo: The Associated Press)Bondi effectively turned Sean Dunn into an icon of resistance for allowing him to be charged with assaulting federal law enforcement officials by throwing a sandwich at them during an anti-ICE protest in Washington.
The jury’s not guilty verdict in his case in November was a black eye against the Trump administration, delivered by a 12-inch Subway sandwich.
But other cases are moving ahead such as that against John Bolton, who served as Trump’s national security advisor during his first administration, and has been charged with illegally retaining classified information.
Coincidentally he is also now a prominent critic of the President.
New York state Attorney General Letitia James, who brought a civil fraud case against the President which led to a $355 million judgement against him, is facing mortgage fraud charges over the purchase of a home in Virginia in 2020 in a case experts have said seems shaky at best.
The DOJ has also forced out or is investigating dozens of FBI agents who worked on cases against the President, including that he illegally retained classified information.
There is little reason to believe that this will stop under Bondi’s acting successor, Todd Blanche, her deputy, and the only difference he will face is increased pressure to come up with results.
How long Blanche remains in the job will depend on how much he can bend the law to Trump’s whims, or stave off the President’s appetite to imprison anyone who opposes him.
As Epstein survivor Marijke Chartouni put it to me in a text: “Replacing Pam Bondi with her deputy and hoping for change is like applying lipstick to a pig.
“The rot runs deep in the Department of Justice; pigs will certainly fly if Epstein prosecutions do begin under Todd Blanche”,
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