Attorney General Pam Bondi is leaving her post at the head of the US Justice Department, ending a tumultuous tenure as the nation's top law enforcement official after some high-profile stumbling blocks in her efforts to carry out President Donald Trump's agenda.
Fox News reported the move on air citing a phone call with Trump.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche will take over as acting attorney general and Bondi is expected to take a different role in the administration, according to Fox News.
The president has discussed Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin as a potential replacement for Bondi, according to people familiar with the matter.
Bondi, who was viewed as one of Trump's most loyal allies, oversaw the unprecedented transformation of the Justice Department into an arm of the White House, pursing cases favored by the president and his supporters. In addition to cracking down on illegal immigration and violent crime, she launched investigations into Trump's perceived political enemies. She also shut down units investigating public corruption and curtailed investigations into corporate and environmental crime.
However, Trump grew impatient with Bondi over the lack of progress in prosecutions that he had demanded against his adversaries, in addition to her handling of files related to cases involving the late, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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