总统唐纳德·特朗普周四，帕姆·邦迪(Pam Bondi)在其社交媒体平台上发布公告称，她将辞去司法部长一职，并表示她将转到私营部门工作。
特朗普在帖子中说:“我们爱帕姆，她将过渡到私营部门一个非常需要和重要的新工作，将在不久的将来宣布。”
特朗普的副总检察长和前私人律师托德·布兰奇将担任代理司法部长，总统说。
特朗普写道:“我们的副总检察长托德·布兰奇(Todd Blanche)是一位非常有才华、受人尊敬的法律人士，他将接任代理总检察长。”
特朗普可能会提出解除邦迪的司法部长职务在最近与政府高级官员的讨论中，消息人士周三告诉美国广播公司新闻，几个月来，人们对司法部没有采取足够措施起诉他的政治对手越来越失望。
“在接下来的一个月里，我将不懈地努力，将司法部长办公室移交给令人惊叹的托德·布兰奇，然后转到一个我感到兴奋的重要私营部门角色，我将继续为特朗普总统和这届政府而战，”邦迪在宣布后的一篇社交媒体帖子中说。
邦迪发布说:“领导特朗普总统为使美国更安全、更有保障而做出的历史性和高度成功的努力，是一生的荣誉，也是美国历史上司法部最重要的第一年。”
布兰奇曾在2007年担任特朗普的辩护律师对他提起的诉讼曼哈顿地方检察官·阿尔文·布莱格和前特别顾问杰克·史密斯。
自去年3月获得参议院批准以来，他一直是美国第二号执法官员，此前他曾在司法部担任纽约南区的助理联邦检察官。
与邦迪一样，他一直直言不讳地表达他个人对特朗普总统的忠诚，就在上周，他出现在保守派政治行动会议上，在会上，他为清洗之前调查特朗普的检察官欢呼，并为DOJ辩护，免受马加基地的批评。
“所以当人们说，‘你为什么不做得更多?’“我欢迎这种批评，”布兰奇说。继续给我们施加压力。当你在X上说‘来吧，布兰奇，为什么我们不做更多的事情’时，你认为这会让我不高兴吗?你不了解我。这就是我的动力。"
随着民主党人和投票权团体表达的警报白宫可能会寻求利用DOJ和美国联邦调查局来干预11月的中期选举。
总统的声明结束了邦迪作为美国最高执法官员的艰难任期，在此期间，她积极寻求将司法部重塑为特朗普议程的执行者-一再打破水门事件后实施的制度规范，鼓励独立于白宫的政治要求。
从她上任的第一天起，邦迪就强调她个人对特朗普的忠诚，并回应了特朗普长期以来对DOJ和美国联邦调查局的不满，总统及其盟友长期以来一直指责特朗普是“武器化”来对付他.
在特朗普的第一个任期内，他面临DOJ和美国联邦调查局高级官员的抵制，反对使用他们机构的巨大权力来惩罚总统眼中的敌人，但邦迪公开支持特朗普对特定目标提起诉讼的要求-效果不一。
司法部试图起诉前美国联邦调查局局长詹姆斯·科米和纽约州总检察长莱蒂夏·詹姆斯分崩离析此前一名联邦法官裁定，特朗普任命的起诉他们的检察官是非法任命的。消息人士此前告诉ABC新闻，试图恢复针对詹姆斯的案件两次被大陪审团拒绝。
华盛顿特区的美国检察官珍妮·皮尔洛(Jeanine Pirro)起诉六名民主党议员的另一项努力也是如此，他们发布了一段视频，敦促军队成员拒绝服从非法命令被大陪审团驳回——尽管特朗普指责该团体犯有“叛国罪”。
Pirro和司法部分别对华盛顿首席法官的一项命令提出上诉，该命令暂停了他们启动刑事侦查美联储董事长杰罗姆·鲍威尔(Jerome Powell)是川普经常发怒的另一个目标。
据知情人士透露，最近几个月，特朗普一再向助手们发泄对司法部打击敌人能力的速度和有效性的不满，他也直接向邦迪表达了这种担忧。
川普和其他白宫高级官员也批评邦迪处理DOJ对已故性犯罪者调查的档案杰弗里·爱泼斯坦，这消耗了媒体几个月的注意力，并导致特朗普一些最忠实的支持者的广泛反弹。
安妮·法默(Annie Farmer)是2021年爱泼斯坦合伙人吉斯莱恩·麦克斯韦尔(Ghislaine Maxwell)刑事审判的证人之一，她在邦迪被驱逐的消息发布后发表声明说，“这不是关于一个人;这是关于政府和司法系统一再辜负爱泼斯坦幸存者。不管谁掌权，幸存者都应该得到问责、透明、免遭报复的保护，以及让爱泼斯坦、马克斯韦尔和其他人得以生存的人将被调查并在适当的情况下被起诉的保证。
邦迪的出现消息人士称，在2月份的众议院司法委员会面前，她多次对立法者大喊大叫，并回避了关于DOJ处理爱泼斯坦文件和其他敏感问题的问题，这也是白宫一些批评的主题。特朗普随后在社交媒体上发布消息称，邦迪在听证会上“棒极了”。
几周后，众议院监督委员会的两党议员投票决定传唤邦迪要求她在四月中旬出席Epstein档案的作证。
监督委员会高级成员罗伯特·加西亚(Robert Garcia，D-California)在特朗普周四宣布邦迪仍将不得不出现在委员会面前后声称。
“监督委员会的传票是给帕姆·邦迪的，不管她是否是司法部长，”众议员加西亚在一份声明中说。
Trump replacing Pam Bondi as attorney general, Todd Blanche to step in
PresidentDonald Trumpannounced Thursday that Pam Bondi was being ousted as his attorney general in a post on his social media platform, saying she'll move to a role working in the private sector.
"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 said in the post.
Trump's deputy attorney general and former personal attorneyTodd Blanchewill serve as acting attorney general, the president said.
"And our Deputy Attorney General, and a very talented and respected Legal Mind, Todd Blanche, will step in to serve as Acting Attorney General," Trump wrote.
Trump had raised potentiallyremoving Bondi as attorney generalin recent discussions with senior administration officials, sources told ABC News on Wednesday, amid months of mounting frustration that the Justice Department isn't doing enough to target his political opponents for prosecution.
"Over the next month I will be working tirelessly to transition the office of Attorney General to the amazing Todd Blanche before moving to an important private sector role I am thrilled about, and where I will continue fighting for President Trump and this Administration," Bondi said in a social media post following the announcement.
"Leading President Trump's historic and highly successful efforts to make America safer and more secure has been the honor of a lifetime, and easily the most consequential first year of the Department of Justice in American history," Bondi posted.
Blanche previously served as Trump's defense attorney in thecases brought against himby Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and former special counsel Jack Smith.
He has served as the nation's No. 2 law enforcement official since being confirmed by the Senate in March of last year, and previously served in the Justice Department as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York.
Like Bondi, he has been vocal about his personal loyalties to President Trump and just last week appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference, where he cheered the purge of prosecutors who previously worked on investigations into Trump and defended the DOJ from criticism by the MAGA base.
"So when people say, 'Why aren't you doing more?' I welcome that criticism," Blanche said. "Keep on putting pressure on us. Do you think it makes me upset when you go on X and say, 'Come on, Blanche, why aren't we doing more?' You don't know me. That's what motivates me."
The shakeup comes as Democrats and voting rights groups haveexpressed alarmthat the White House may seek to use the DOJ and FBI to intervene in the midterm elections in November.
The president's announcement brings an end to a rocky tenure for Bondi as the nation's top law enforcement official, during which she aggressively sought to reshape the Justice Department as an enforcer of Trump's agenda -- repeatedly breaking with institutional norms implemented after the Watergate era that had encouraged independence from the political demands of the White House.
From her first days in office, Bondi emphasized her personal loyalty to Trump and echoed his longstanding grievances with the DOJ and FBI that the president and his allies have long accused of being "weaponized" against him.
During Trump's first term in office he faced resistance from top officials at the DOJ and FBI against using the vast powers of their agencies to punish the president's perceived enemies, but Bondi publicly embraced Trump's demands to launch prosecutions against specific targets -- to mixed effect.
The department's attempts to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia Jamesfell apartafter a federal judge ruled that the Trump-appointed prosecutor who indicted them was appointed unlawfully. Attempts to revive the case against James were twice rejected by a grand jury, sources previously told ABC News.
A separate effort by the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., Jeanine Pirro, to indict six Democratic lawmakers who posted a video urging military service members to refuse to follow unlawful orders was alsorejected by a grand jury-- despite Trump's accusation that the group was guilty of "treason."
Pirro and the department are separately appealing an order from the chief judge in Washington, D.C., that has put on hold their attempt to launch acriminal investigationinto Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, another frequent target of Trump's ire.
In recent months, Trump has repeatedly vented frustration to aides regarding both the pace and the effectiveness of the Justice Department's ability to target his foes -- concerns he had also conveyed directly to Bondi -- according to sources familiar with the matter.
Trump and other senior White House officials have also criticized Bondi's handling of the DOJ's files from its investigations into deceased sex offenderJeffrey Epstein, which has consumed months of media attention and led to widespread backlash from some of Trump's most devoted supporters.
Annie Farmer, one of the witnesses who testified at the criminal trial of Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell in 2021, said in a statement following news of Bondi's ouster, "This is not about a single person; it is about a government and judicial system that has repeatedly failed Epstein survivors. Regardless of who holds power, survivors deserve accountability, transparency, protection from retaliation, and assurance that those who enabled Epstein, Maxwell, and others will be investigated and, if appropriate, prosecuted."
Bondi'sappearancein front of the House Judiciary Committee in February, in which she repeatedly yelled at lawmakers and sidestepped questions about the DOJ's handling of the Epstein files and other sensitive matters, was also the subject of some criticism at the White House, sources say. Trump posted afterward on social media that Bondi was "fantastic" at the hearing.
Weeks later, a bipartisan group of lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee voted tosubpoena Bondiwith a demand that she sit for a deposition on the Epstein files in mid-April.
Oversight Committee Ranking Member Robert Garcia, D-Calif., claimed following Trump's announcement Thursday that Bondi will still have to appear before the panel.
"The Oversight Committee subpoena is for Pam Bondi, whether she is the Attorney General or not," Rep. Garcia said in a statement.
