Bondi, Go F*ck Yourself. Trump's Firing Season Has Begun
The Lincoln Project
The Lincoln Project
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🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Unlike the Survivors, Bondi couldn't survive Epstein. Pam Bondi is out—and the timing says everything. As the Epstein files resurface and pressure builds around Trump’s inner circle, the infamous “firing season” has officially begun. For this week's Elephant in the Room, Rick breaks down why Bondi got cut loose, what it signals about the escalating Epstein fallout, and how Trump’s pattern of loyalty tests and political purges is playing out in real time. This isn’t damage control—it’s survival mode. And if history tells us anything, Bondi is just the beginning.
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| 0:00.0 | Your task will not be an easy one. |
| 0:02.5 | Your enemy is well trained, well equipped, and battlehardt. |
| 0:06.3 | There is not a liberal America and a conservative America. |
| 0:09.9 | There is the United States of America. |
| 0:14.5 | Good night. |
| 0:15.7 | And good luck. |
| 0:17.0 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:17.8 | It's Rick. |
| 0:18.2 | Welcome to The Elephant in the Room. |
| 0:19.7 | As always, on Fridays, we bring you a show peeling back what's going on beneath a big story of the week or a big movement of the week. Something that's happening out there. But I think you need a little more context on. Today's Elephant in the Room, it's firing season. |
| 0:38.2 | It's firing season, folks. |
| 0:40.0 | You know, you used to get firing season back in the first Trump administration, |
| 0:42.8 | wouldn't a great deal of regular. |
| 0:44.2 | He's fired! |
| 0:46.1 | When it comes to staff turnover in the first year, Trump is way ahead of the pack. |
| 0:52.1 | 36% of Trump's staff have been fired, quit or changed positions. |
| 0:57.0 | That's more than twice as many as under Reagan, three times Clinton, |
| 1:01.0 | four times Obama, five times Bush Senior, and six times George W. |
| 1:06.0 | And we're not talking about junior positions here. |
| 1:09.0 | These are senior White House staff. Michael Flynn, the National Security Advisor, was one of the first to go. |
| 1:15.6 | Forced to resign over his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the United States before Trump became president. |
| 1:21.6 | I think it's very, very unfair what's happened to General Flynn the way he was treated. Flynn lasted just 23 days and last month he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. |
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