Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi after controversies over withholding Jeffrey Epstein documents and the dismissal of charges against Democrats.

Former Attorney General Pam Bondi might be out of the Trump administration, but the pressure over her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files is not going away. After President Donald Trump announced Bondi was out and being replaced by Todd Blanche as acting attorney general,

After Pam Bondi became U.S. attorney general last year, conservative influencers, online sleuths and others who wanted the government to disclose all it knew about Jeffrey Epstein thought they might have a champion in the Department of Justice.

Democrats issued a warning to Bondi about the hearing after Trump said Bondi would be leaving her role as attorney general.

Pam Bondi's time as head of the Justice Department might be most remembered for her mishandling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

The federal government’s online Epstein library contains a five-page handwritten report of an FBI interview with an inmate who awoke the morning of Aug. 10, 2019 to the loud commotion in the Special Housing Unit, or SHU, where he and Epstein were jailed. “Breathe! Breathe!” he recalled officers shouting about 6:30 a.m.

Ms. Bondi’s critics inside and outside the administration say she has made unforced errors that have turned the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files into a political crisis.

A large share of science funding comes through philanthropy, with little legal or public scrutiny. This lack of oversight allowed Jeffrey Epstein to cultivate scientists and launder his reputation.

Scrutiny has landed on university donors as well as several academics whose emails with Epstein surfaced in the latest files.