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Pam Bondi had a feeling her days as attorney general were numbered. But she didn't expect President Trump to drop the curtain quite so soon.
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;Resize=(620)) For more than a year, Pam Bondi violated the norms of independence expected from a U.S. attorney general and forced Department of Justice attorneys to do the bidding of President Donald Trump. Yet her loyalty and willingness to turn the department into a weapon of retribution for Trump weren't enough to satisfy the president.
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In a social media post, President Trump said he was replacing Ms. Bondi with Todd Blanche, her deputy, on an interim basis.
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Financial markets were not reassured by President Trump's address to the nation. Stocks tumbled while energy prices climbed. The shooting war adds to the economic fallout from Trump's trade war.
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