Trump Fires Pam Bondi as Attorney General
Laura Coates Live
CNN
3.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Victor Blackwell in for Laura. And it turns out even intense public loyalty to President Trump is not enough to guarantee job security. |
| 0:16.5 | Attorney General Pam Bondi is out. She's the second cabinet secretary to be fired in the last weeks after Trump removed Christy Noem as Homeland Security Secretary. |
| 0:26.3 | Trump fired Bondi in a social media post. He says she'll be moving to the private sector. He did not say why she was dismissed, but our reporting does. And there are several points of frustration. |
| 0:37.6 | Sources say Trump was fed up with her handling of the Epstein files. |
| 0:41.7 | There's no question she made a series of missteps that helped turn the fallout into a headache for the president. |
| 0:47.3 | There's that phase one binder. Remember these photos? The photo op outside the White House, the DOJ, an FBI memo that essentially said case closed, |
| 0:57.0 | and there's also this. |
| 0:59.6 | The DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients. Will that really happen? |
| 1:05.7 | It's sitting on my desk right now to review. That's been a directive by President Trump. |
| 1:11.8 | Yeah, so there's a lot there, but Epstein is not the only reason Bondi fell out of Trump's favor. |
| 1:17.5 | We're also told that she did not investigate or prosecute enough of President Trump's political enemies. |
| 1:24.3 | And the president made that pretty clear. Remember this post from September? Apparently, |
| 1:29.1 | it was meant to be a private message. But Trump explicitly tells Bondi to prosecute James Comey, |
| 1:35.7 | Letitia James, Adam Schiff. But here's what makes Bondi's removal so striking. She actually |
| 1:41.3 | tried to follow the directive. Her Justice Department did bring charges |
| 1:46.0 | against Comey and James, although the prosecutions eventually fell apart, and she repeatedly, |
| 1:51.4 | and very publicly, went to bat for the president. She tore into Democrats in the process. Watch. |
| 1:58.2 | When I will continue to answer. I don't determine the gentleman that he's reclaiming her time. I'm not going to get in the gutter for her theatrics. |
| 2:04.3 | You don't tell me anything washed up. |
| 2:06.6 | She's her law. |
| 2:07.6 | I find it interesting that she keeps going after President Trump, the greatest president |
| 2:14.2 | in American history. |
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