WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump removed Pam Bondi as his attorney general. Trump announced the departure on Truth Social, writing, "Pam Bondi is a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year."

Trump also wrote, "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 had previously expressed dissatisfaction with Bondi's pace in prosecuting his political rivals, writing in a social media post, "We can't delay any longer, it's killing our reputation and credibility." Last year, Trump called on Bondi to move quickly to prosecute Letitia James and James Comey.

Rep. Jamie Raskin said, "You've turned the People's Department of Justice into Trump's instrument of revenge."

Under Bondi's leadership, the Justice Department opened investigations into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, New York Attorney General Letitia James, former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan. Federal prosecutors indicted Comey, James and former National Security Adviser John Bolton during her tenure. The prosecutions of Comey and James were dismissed by a judge on the grounds that the prosecutor was illegally appointed. A separate effort to convene a grand jury to charge six members of Congress was unsuccessful.

Bondi oversaw the departure of thousands of career employees from the Justice Department through firings and voluntary resignations, including the firings of career prosecutors deemed insufficiently loyal to Trump. The departing employees included prosecutors who had worked on violent attacks on police at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as well as environmental, civil rights, ethics and counterterrorism enforcers.

The Justice Department released millions of pages of files related to Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking investigation during Bondi's tenure. Bondi arranged for binders of those files to be distributed to conservative influencers at the White House. Those binders contained no new revelations about the Epstein case. The Republican-led House Oversight Committee issued a subpoena to Bondi to appear for a closed-door interview regarding the files. In July, the department announced it would not release any additional Epstein files, and Congress passed a bill requiring the department to release the remaining records. The department later acknowledged that it did not possess any document containing Epstein's alleged client list. In a 2025 interview, Bondi had suggested that Epstein's alleged "client list" was sitting on her desk for review.

Bondi rejected accusations of politicizing the Justice Department and stated her mission was to restore the department's credibility after the Biden administration pursued two federal criminal cases against Trump. During her tenure, Bondi praised and defended Trump during a congressional hearing and placed a banner with his face on the exterior of Justice Department headquarters. Bondi also spearheaded the department's defense of Trump's executive orders against legal challenges.