Trump Fires AG Bondi, Pushes for Loyalty

0:00It's April 2nd, Sydney news today starts now, AI powered and ready, I'm Cory with the story. President Donald Trump just fired Attorney General Pam Bondi after a year on the job. He announced it on true social, praising her as a great patriot, who let a huge crackdown on crime, dropping murders to the lowest since 19. 100. Bondi is heading to a new private sector gig soon, and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch steps in as acting AG right away. Bond's frustration boiled over her slow pace, prosecuting his critics, and mishandling Jeffrey Epstein files. Reports say she drank her feet on releasing Justice Department records about Epstein's sex trafficking probes, which involved big names in power. Bondi face heat in a fiery January house hearing, firing back at lawmakers instead of addressing Epstein survivors there. She wouldn't apologize or even look their way, turning it into a political slugfest. After her watch, the Department launched probes into Trump targets like Federal Reserve,

1:01Chair Jerome Powell, New York AG Latisha James, X FBI Head, James Comey, and former CIA Director John Brennan. She's the second top official Trump acts lately, after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem got the boot in early March over immigration issues. This shake-up signals Trump's pushing harder for loyalty and speed in his administration's legal fights, with Blanch now holding the reins amid ongoing battles.