Pam Bondi is leaving office with one final embarrassment.
The newly ousted cabinet secretary, 60, set a record for the shortest tenure of a confirmed attorney general since the 1970s after President Donald Trump fired her on Thursday.
Following a flurry of media speculation over Bondi’s fate, Trump confirmed in a Truth Social post that he had let his ever-embattled attorney general go, marking the second departure from his Cabinet since he returned to the White House last year.
“Pam Bondi is a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year,” he wrote, before delivering the kicker.
“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 continued. “Our Deputy Attorney General, and a very talented and respected Legal Mind, Todd Blanche, will step in to serve as Acting Attorney General.”
Bondi put up an upbeat front in a statement released after her termination.
“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,” she wrote on X.
Bondi was sworn in on Feb. 5, 2025. The Senate confirmed her in a 54-46 vote following testy hearings where she clashed with Democrats over her support for Trump, including her refusal to outright acknowledge Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.
She served as attorney general for just under 14 months, the shortest since William Saxbe, who was former President Richard Nixon’s chief law enforcement officer from January 1974 to February 1975.
Saxbe, who died in 2010, resigned as attorney general after former President Gerald Ford named him ambassador to India.
Bondi follows in the footsteps of axed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was let go in the aftermath of the deadly immigration blitz in Minnesota.
Like Noem, Bondi faced a barrage of controversies, largely over the Justice Department’s release of files related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
