Trump Reportedly Told Bondi She Was Toast Day Before Firing: ‘It’s Time’

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President Donald Trump told Attorney General Pam Bondi she was going to be fired a day before he officially removed her on Thursday, according to a new report.

Trump confirmed on Truth Social on Thursday that the attorney general would be leaving the Department of Justice for a job in the private sector. But according to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Trump broke the news to Bondi a day earlier, while the two traveled together to the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

Minutes before the attorney general appeared by the president’s side during oral arguments over a case concerning birthright citizenship, Trump told Bondi she would be leaving her post.

“I think it’s time,” the president reportedly told her.

Bondi later asked Trump if she could remain as attorney general until the summer, a request the president declined.

Though the president’s discontent with Bondi has been well known for some time – primarily surrounding her handling of the files related to Jeffrey Epstein and her ineffectiveness in going after Trump’s political enemies – the Journal report claims that it was a slow culmination of many factors that led to her ouster.

Trump reportedly showed printouts of negative social media posts about Bondi from conservatives to White House visitors, going so far as to consider appointing special counsels to speed along objectives he felt Bondi was not achieving.

“When one ally mentioned Bondi’s name in a casual setting at a sporting event in January, Trump unleashed into a diatribe immediately, saying she was doing a ‘terrible job’ and expressing frustration he chose her for attorney general,” the report read.

Bondi had already left Washington, D.C., when her firing was announced on Thursday, flying to Florida to meet with local sheriffs to promote the National Child ID Kit program.

Her departure comes amid other leadership changes in Trump’s administration, announced just a month after the president fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and the same day that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to retire.

Trump is allegedly considering removing more of his cabinet in the coming weeks, including Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer.

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