Welcome to the Dispatch podcast. I'm your host, Sarah Isgert. On today's roundtable, we'll discuss

Donald Trump's firing of Attorney General Pam Bondi and the White House's proposed

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President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi Thursday afternoon after reports that Trump had grown increasingly frustrated with the political heat.

From DOJ's handling of the Epstein files and her supposed failure to go after the president's political foes. So let's start with this.

Mike, was Pam Bondi a good attorney general for Donald Trump? Sarah, I feel like you are qualified, more qualified that I am, as you are a former DOJ

employee, to answer that question.

But I would say that she was not a good attorney general for Donald Trump, because

nobody can be a good attorney general for Donald Trump, even the best attorney.

In fact, almost certainly not the best or most qualified attorney general.

There is no chance that that person could be what Donald Trump wants the job to be.

And I think what the Bondi sort of the whole saga of Pam Bondi's tenure, you know,

starting off with her, you know,

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