Within hours of Trump confirming her exit Thursday, photos began circulating of Bondi’s framed portrait removed from its place of honor on the walls of DOJ offices. One image showed it sitting in a trash bin.
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It was not an accident. News reporter Ken Dilanian confirmed what the photo already showed.
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“There’s a lot of anger, especially among the career workforce, about Pam Bondi and what she did to change the Justice Department, more so than any attorney general in modern history.”
The anger had been building since day one.
Early in her tenure, Bondi walked into the seventh-floor national security division, a classified SCIF requiring a code to enter, and found portraits of Biden, Harris, and Garland still on the walls weeks after Trump’s inauguration. She demoted Devin DeBacker, the respected acting chief of the division, over it.
Then she went on Fox News and bragged about it.
“I went up on the seventh floor, which is the national security division. The entire floor is a SCIF, so no one can get in there,” she said.
“So I was able to get the code, open the door, and I look on the wall and see President Biden, Kamala Harris, and Merrick Garland’s paintings still hanging.” She was proud of what came next. “I personally took all three photos down. I put them in front of someone who said to me, ‘Oh well, maintenance is really slow here.’ I said, ‘Well it took me about 30 seconds to get them off the wall.'”
The DOJ did not extend the same courtesy to hers.
The officials Bondi accused of Democratic disloyalty had served loyally through Trump’s entire first term without incident. Career DOJ veterans viewed her portrait stunt as petty vindictiveness dressed up as loyalty testing. They have not forgotten it. With Bondi gone, they are not pretending otherwise.
Trump told Bondi it was over during their ride in The Beast to the Supreme Court on Wednesday. “I think it’s time,” he reportedly said as the motorcade crossed Washington. She attended his Iran war speech that night anyway.
She is not the only one potentially on the way out. Trump is reportedly considering firing Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Army Secretary Dan Driscoll. The cabinet shuffle has no clear end in sight.
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