{"id":81925,"date":"2026-04-02T13:30:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81925"},"modified":"2026-04-02T13:30:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:30:37","slug":"trump-says-pam-bondi-a-loyalist-who-oversaw-justice-department-upheaval-is-out-as-attorney-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/trump-says-pam-bondi-a-loyalist-who-oversaw-justice-department-upheaval-is-out-as-attorney-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says Pam Bondi, A Loyalist Who Oversaw Justice Department Upheaval, Is Out As Attorney General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Associated Press:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump said Thursday that\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pam-bondi-justice-department-trump-attorney-general-4b94c094cfcabf606e4883fe709ab55a\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Pam Bondi<\/a><\/span>\u00a0is out as his attorney general, ending the contentious tenure of a loyalist who upended the Justice Department\u2019s culture of independence from the White House, oversaw large-scale firings of career employees and moved aggressively to investigate the Republican president\u2019s perceived enemies.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement follows months of scrutiny over the Justice Department\u2019s handling of\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pam-bondi-house-judiciary-committee-justice-department-6d7502b80e42e9e9454264e242507bbd\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">files related to Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s sex trafficking investigation<\/a><\/span>\u00a0that made Bondi the target of angry conservatives even with her close relationship with Trump. She also struggled to satisfy Trump\u2019s demands to prosecute his political rivals, with multiple investigations rejected by judges or grand juries.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1775136637\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Trump Says Pam Bondi, A Loyalist Who Oversaw Justice Department Upheaval, Is Out As Attorney General\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Associated Press: President Donald Trump said Thursday that\u00a0Pam Bondi\u00a0is out as his attorney general, ending the contentious tenure of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}