# Pam Bondi The American attorney who served as **U.S. Attorney General from February 2025 until her removal on 2 April 2026**, following Senate confirmation by a 54–46 vote on February 4, 2025 — the only Democrat voting yes was [[John Fetterman]]. > [!important] No longer Attorney General > Trump removed Bondi on **2 April 2026** after a 14-month tenure, amid dissatisfaction that she was not pursuing his priorities aggressively enough — with her handling of the **Epstein files** drawing the sharpest criticism, including a February appearance before Congress in which she declined to apologize to Epstein survivors present in the chamber. Deputy Attorney General **[[Todd Blanche]]** became acting AG and was **confirmed to the office 50–49 on 8 August 2026** — see [[Todd Blanche Confirmation]]. Bondi said she was proud of her record and would transition the office to Blanche before moving to a private-sector role. Bondi was Trump's **second pick** for AG after **[[Matt Gaetz]]** withdrew amid sexual-misconduct allegations in November 2024. Her substantive political trajectory ran through Tampa-area prosecution (Assistant State Attorney, Hillsborough County 1994-2009), the **Florida Attorney General** position (2011-2019, the first woman to hold the role), a post-Florida lobbying career at [[Ballard Partners]] (2019-2024), and **Trump's first impeachment defense team** (2020), where she publicly attacked [[Joe Biden]] over Hunter Biden's Ukrainian business activity. Bondi is the **operational figurehead** of the second Trump administration's prosecutorial-reversal framework. Her DOJ has directed the dismissal of the federal Trump cases (Mar-a-Lago and election obstruction), the **[[J6 Mass Pardons]]** implementation, the **[[Comey Indictment]]** prosecution, the parallel **[[Letitia James]]** indictment, and the broader **[[Grand Conspiracy Probe]]** targeting [[Crossfire Hurricane]]-era FBI personnel. The pattern visible from her first six months: federal-prosecutorial decisions are made under direct Trump personal direction rather than through the post-Watergate career-prosecutorial-judgment framework. ## Quick facts - **Born:** November 17, 1965, Tampa, Florida - **Education:** University of Florida (BA), Stetson Law School (JD) - **Early career:** Hillsborough County Assistant State Attorney, 1994–2009 - **Florida AG:** 2011–2019 (two terms) - **Trump first impeachment defense:** January–February 2020 - **Lobbying interregnum:** Ballard Partners, 2019–2024 (Qatar, Amazon, GEO Group clients) - **AG nomination:** November 21, 2024 (after Gaetz withdrew) - **Senate confirmation:** 54–46, February 4, 2025 ## KB significance **Through-line figure for prosecutorial reversal.** Bondi is the operational figure responsible for executing the prosecutorial-framework reversal at the federal level — the dismissals of Trump's federal cases, the personnel actions against Crossfire Hurricane-era FBI and DOJ staff, the prosecution of Trump's named political enemies (Comey, James), and the broader Grand Conspiracy Probe framework. The post-Watergate institutional convention against politicized federal prosecution has been substantively abandoned during her tenure. **The Ballard Partners network.** Bondi's 2019-2024 lobbying career at **Ballard Partners** (the Florida-based lobbying firm run by [[Brian Ballard]], a major Trump fundraiser) places her within the post-first-term Trump-orbit professional network that has substantially staffed the second administration. The Ballard-network personnel pipeline is one of the second administration's institutional through-lines. **Project 2025 affiliation.** Bondi was substantively involved in the Project 2025 framework's DOJ chapter (Chapter 16) development, though she publicly distanced herself from the broader Project 2025 framework during the 2024 campaign — the same pattern as Trump's own disavowal. ## Doctor Paradox Blog Content - **[Pam Bondi: Attorney General of Conflicts](https://doctorparadox.net/pam-bondi-attorney-general-of-conflicts/)** (March 10, 2026) — Full corruption profile: 30+ undisclosed Ballard Partners clients, the Qatar $400M jet gift memo she personally signed, the AmEx GBT merger DOJ dropped after Ballard lobbying, the Trump University $25K donation, and Ballard becoming DC's highest-paid lobbying shop with 10 new DOJ-facing clients. ## The Brother Question Her brother **[[Brad Bondi]]** co-chairs the white-collar defense practice at Paul Hastings. Since she took office his clients have drawn an unusual run of favorable federal outcomes — dismissals, declinations, a DOJ intervention, and the [[Trevor Milton]] pardon. On **March 11, 2026**, Sen. [[Adam Schiff]] and Rep. Dave Min asked the [[Department of Justice]] Inspector General to investigate whether she properly recused herself from those matters. DOJ says she had no role in any of them. See [[Brad Bondi]] for the case-by-case record. ## See also - [[Donald Trump]] — Nominating president - [[Comey Indictment]] — Principal first-year prosecutorial action - [[J6 Mass Pardons]] — Implementation of the pardons framework - [[Grand Conspiracy Probe]] — Broader prosecutorial-reversal framework - [[Letitia James]] — Parallel indictment subject - [[Federalist Society]] — Legal-movement infrastructure - [[Heritage Foundation]] — Project 2025 institutional home - [[Brad Bondi]]