It’s a particularly bad time to be a woman in Trumpworld. Last week, Attorney General Pam Bondi learned she was out of a job after President Donald Trump reportedly lost patience with her botched handling of the Epstein files.
The dismissal came less than a month after Kristi Noem was unceremoniously ousted as secretary of homeland security in a Truth Social post, which also revealed her replacement: Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.). Minutes after the post went live, Noem still had to deliver the keynote speech at the Major Cities Conference in Nashville, Tennessee.
Both Bondi and Noem had scandal-plagued tenures: Noem oversaw an unpopular immigration crackdown that sent federal agents into Minnesota and other blue states, where they spent months brutalizing immigrants, terrorizing communities and fatally shooting two Minneapolis residents.
Controversy dogged Bondi’s time as attorney general, too, much of it tied to the release of the Justice Department’s files on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Critics across the political spectrum accused her of forsaking Epstein’s victims to protect the president, who was once friendly with Epstein. She also faced allegations of weaponizing the DOJ against Trump’s political opponents and tracking the search histories of Democratic lawmakers reviewing the Epstein files.
