Donald Trump’s decision on Wednesday to remove Pam Bondi as attorney general is one of the few he’s made as president that actually got some sort of bipartisan support.
In a statement on his Truth Social platform, the president praised Bondi as “a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year,” adding that she is being transitioned to “a much needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future.”
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche will be taking over Bondi’s job as acting attorney general, and he praised his former boss on social media, saying that she “led this Department with strength and conviction and I’m grateful for her leadership and friendship.”
Bondi also received support from former Congressman Matt Gaetz, who was briefly considered for the attorney general post before withdrawing after several Republican senators objected to his nomination on ethical grounds.
“Pam Bondi will be known as one of the great crime fighters of our time,” he posted on X. “She is a patriot who has all of our appreciation.”
Bondi made her own social media post after her firing was announced, saying, in part, that she remains “eternally grateful for the trust that President Trump placed in me to Make America Safe Again.”
However, most of the social media responses from politicians on both sides of the aisle expressed overwhelming support for Bondi’s canning, often in very harsh terms, such as the post by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who began his post with the words, “Good riddance.”
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries also went scorched earth against Bondi, calling her “a partisan, petulant, political hack.”
House Republicans also applauded Bondi getting booted, with South Carolina’s Nancy Mace griping about how the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files “seriously undermined President Trump.”
Other politicians chimed in to cheer Bondi’s removal as AG:
