Bondi ouster ignites bipartisan uproar: 'Partisan, petulant, political hack'
Democrats are jubilant over the sudden ouster of Pam Bondi as head of the Department of Justice, with leading party members taking to social media to say "good riddance."Democrats rejoiced...
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Democrats are jubilant over the sudden ouster of Pam Bondi as head of the Department of Justice, with leading party members taking to social media to say "good riddance." Democrats rejoiced on X after President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Thursday to confirm reports that Bondi was leaving her position as U.S. attorney general. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer , D-N.Y., wrote, "Good riddance. Pam Bondi was the wrong choice from the start." He went on to assert that "the rot at the Department of Justice begins and ends with Donald Trump," writing, "As long as his focus is on using DOJ as a tool for revenge and not law enforcement, the cover-up of the Epstein files, along with the countless other problems at DOJ, will continue." PAM BONDI ALREADY FIRED AS ATTORNEY GENERAL, CABINET OFFICIAL TEED UP AS REPLACEMENT: SOURCES Prominent Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., a former Democratic presidential candidate, claimed that Bondi "will be remembered for blocking the release of the Epstein files, weaponizing the DOJ to go after Trump’s political opponents, and handing out merger approvals as political favors." "Under AG Pam Bondi, the DOJ became a cesspool of corruption," she asserted, piling on another, "Good riddance." Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who during his time in the House of Representatives oversaw the Jan. 6 hearings, reacted by writing that Bondi "oversaw an unprecedented weaponization of the Justice Department that brought our nation's rule of law to its knees." "Countless and baseless political investigations, hundreds of career law enforcement professionals purged, a massive cover-up of the Epstein files, and a wholesale effort to turn the department into a criminal law firm representing the person of the president instead of the American people," Schiff alleged, adding, "But Pam Bondi was merely a symptom of Donald Trump's chronic allergy to our nation's laws." On the House side, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., wrote, "Pam Bondi is a part…