In an earlier online outburst that read as much like a direct message to Bondi as a public post, Trump demanded she appoint Halligan his special assistant and a onetime beauty queen to replace Erik Siebert, a former police officer and experienced prosecutor and US attorney who resigned after finding no grounds for prosecuting the New York attorney general, Letitia James.
Bondi's statements and other official actions - including a highly choreographed perp walk that saw Mangione led up a Manhattan pier by armed officers, and the Trump administration's flouting of established death penalty procedures - "have violated Mr. Mangione's constitutional and statutory rights and have fatally prejudiced this death penalty case," his lawyers argued in a court filing. Mangione's defense team, led by former Manhattan prosecutor Karen Friedman Agnifilo,
Trump ally Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) who was a cabinet secretary in Trump's first term got a heavy receipt pulled on him when he complained, without evidence, that an unnamed news outlet called President Donald Trump a Nazi three thousand times! Trump Attorney General Pam Bondi has drawn criticism for threatening to go after people over what she described as hate speech including those cheering activist Charlie Kirk's assassination.
In recent months, the political world has been rocked by renewed interest in the case of the convicted sex trafficker. This came as a result of Trump's Department of Justice led by Attorney General Pam Bondi concluding the rumored list of Epstein clients did not actually exist. Bondi previously insisted the list was on her desk, leading some to speculate that the administration was trying to cover up the case.
"When I began as a prosecutor, I started in the domestic violence unit," she stressed. "You have my word that we will do everything in our power to fight for victims of domestic violence throughout this country, as I have done my entire career."
The employee, Elizabeth Baxter, was a paralegal at the department's environmental defense section, according to a memo to her published by the New York Post, which first reported Friday's dismissal. Based on your inappropriate conduct towards National Guard service members, your employment with the Department of Justice is hereby terminated, and you are removed from federal service effective immediately, Bondi wrote in the memo.
In March, Trump installed Matthew Giordano, an experienced prosecutor and campaign donor, as US Attorney for the District of New Jersey. Three weeks later, he shoved Giordano aside, mumbling that he was honoring him with an appointment as ambassador to Namibia. Instead Trump installed his personal lawyer Alina Habba, a loyalist with zero prosecutorial experience. Trump nominated Habba for a full term, but the Senate never took up her appointment - and indeed she appears never to have even bothered to fill out the paperwork.
Bondi's last appearance as a guest on Fox News was with Sean Hannity on June 30th, days before her DOJ and the FBI released a joint memo concluding that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself and did not keep a client list.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has directed a U.S. Federal prosecutor to present evidence to a grand jury concerning an alleged conspiracy to link Donald Trump to Russia.
I gave the president my view of how to handle it. Pretty much what I told you guys. Don't talk about it. Get Bondi, the Justice Department, in a methodical way to explain what's going on.
Dillon and Jones highlighted Bondi's statement about having thousands of hours of video, expressing skepticism about the claim that it contains no compromising material on powerful individuals.
"We've got a war on drugs, we've got a war on human trafficking, we've got cartels in this country and we've got foreign adversaries around this world as well and we're all going to work together as a team to fight to keep America safe again and I can tell you that's what we're all committed to."
"I just want to say Pam Bondi, the US Attorney General, has zero credibility on this case because she says there's a list, there's not a list. Anyone who has been covering this case for a substantial period of time knows there's no list."
Bondi claimed Reuveni is not a legitimate whistleblower, but a leaker making false claims, and that his accusations arose after being fired for ethical violations.