April 2, 2026 will be remembered as Bondi-voyage by numerous Chicago area critics of the fired attorney general.
Even though there have been niceties back and forth on social media between President Trump and his fired-Attorney General Pam Bondi, Trump is said to have had enough of his flashpoint law enforcement general constantly on the defensive and in a negative light for the administration.
Bondi has been fending off steady attacks that she was covering up the Epstein files, focused on protecting the president and fixated on punishing his enemies.
“You’re one of the worst AG’s in our history …You weaponized the DOJ to target immigrants, families anyone that Trump deemed an enemy,” said Chicago Democratic congressman Chuy Gracia almost two months ago in a vicious attack on Attorney General Bondi as she sat across from him during a hearing on Capitol Hill.
But even Garcia’s onslaught was not as brutal and bloody as the scenes playing out on Chicago streets for weeks last fall amid Operation Midway Blitz, during which Bondi became a figurehead of ICE failures and federal criminal cases in Chicago that had to be dropped.
“I said that I thought Pam Bondi was probably the worst attorney general in the history of our country, violating the Constitution, allowing the violation of the rule of law, and covering up many of the crimes of this administration,” said Garcia on Thursday after learning of Bondi’s termination.
On Friday an email will be sent to Justice Department officials signed by fourteen former U.S. Attorneys in Chicago and top federal prosecutors citing concerns about the troubling direction of the DOJ under Trump.
Ron Safer is one of the signees.
“There’s no question that DC is dictating what this U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago does. There is no resistance that is being offered,” Safer told the NBC 5 Investigates team. “Of course, there has been an exodus, an unprecedented exodus of prosecutors who have been public servants for a decade and war, who might have offered some resistance. They’re gone.”
Safer said potential Trump enemies in Chicago and in Illinois and people who are currently being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office here may now face renewed force by the Justice Department.
“They’ll keep going after them, they will go after them with more vigor,” Safer said. “They’re doing it right now. They’re calling people into the grand jury whose only sin is that they were attached to somebody who Trump doesn’t like and the system is being abused and it will continue be abused for the next three years.”
Bondi on Thursday joined Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in her termination a month ago. Trump’s first two cabinet firings: women. We asked former Assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago Juliet Sorensen about that.
“The first two people fired in this administration were highly visible, highly controversial lightning rods,” Sorensen observed. Now the Director of the Rule of Law Institute at Loyola School of Law in Chicago, Sorensen said the president eventually viewed Bondi and Noem “as detrimental to his political success. And that’s the bottom line.”
Illinois Senator Dick Durbin said on Thursday that “Pam Bondi’s legacy will be the weaponization of the world’s preeminent law enforcement agency for Donald Trump’s personal benefit, but apparently even she didn’t go far enough to appease him.”
“Donald Trump wants an unyielding loyalist who will cover up his crimes, prosecute his perceived enemies, and carry out his bidding—even if it means endangering the American people and violating the Constitution,” Durbin said in a statement. “It’s time for all Americans—my Republican colleagues included—to tell this President to end the charade and nominate an Attorney General whose loyalty is to the American public and the rule of law.”
The U.S. Attorney in Chicago Andrew Boutros declined to comment Thursday about the firing of his boss. Her top deputy and Trump enforcer Todd Blanche will be the interim attorney general until a permanent nominee can be named.
While it could be Blanche, who was previously President Trump’s trusted criminal defense attorney, the president’s favorite may be Lee Zeldin, now head of the Environmental Protection Agency.
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