President Donald Trump is losing one of his most loyal defenders. Pam Bondi is leaving the Department of Justice after months of political blowback and turmoil. On social media, the president praised Bondi, calling her tenure tremendous, but saying she’s now heading to the private sector. He also said Bondi’s deputy and his former personal defense attorney Todd Blanche will serve as acting attorney General. Bondi said her time. At the Justice Department was an honor, and she praised the work fighting crime during her tenure. She also led *** dramatic shakeup at the DOJ with firings, resignations, and investigations targeting some of President Trump’s political foes. Critics say that made the Justice Department look more like *** political weapon than an independent agency, but allies say she was carrying out the president’s agenda on crime, immigration, and what they saw as. Past abuses of power. In the final months of her time at the DOJ, there was growing bipartisan backlash over the department’s handling of files related to Jeffrey Epstein. Congressional Democrats say Bondi still needs to testify before them on that matter. Bondi’s exit is just the latest turnover within the administration. It comes just weeks after former DHS Secretary Christie Nome was removed from the cabinet. At the White House, I’m Christopher Sales.
‘We will call him the fraud czar’: President Trump assigns new role for Vice President Vance
President Donald Trump says that Vice President JD Vance is about to get an additional new role in his administration.According to Trump, the vice president is set to receive the responsibilities of a newly created job title in the White House: “fraud czar.””Vice President JD Vance is now in charge of ‘FRAUD’ in the United States,” wrote Trump on Friday in a post on Truth Social. “It is massive and pervasive, and the job he will be doing, in conjunction with many great people within the Trump Administration, will be a major factor in how great the future of our Country will be.””We will call him the ‘FRAUD CZAR,’ and his focus will be ‘EVERYWHERE,'” continued Trump. “But primarily in those Blue States where CROOKED DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS, like those in California, Illinois, Minnesota (Somalia beware!), Maine, New York, and many others, have had a ‘free for all’ in the unprecedented theft of Taxpayer Money. The numbers are so large that, if successful, we would literally be able to balance our American Budget. Raids have already started in L.A. Good Luck JD!”Additional details about Vance’s new role were not immediately clear from the president’s post.Despite this, U.S. presidents giving assignments on particular agenda items of importance to their vice presidents has a very long history in Washington, D.C. For example, during the Biden administration, Vice President Kamala Harris was assigned to lead negotiations with Latin American countries in reducing emigration throughout the region to the United States. Years before, when Biden was Barack Obama’s vice president, he spearheaded the administration’s Cancer Moonshot efforts. And during the George W. Bush administration, former Vice President Dick Cheney had an outsized role in foreign policy as the country engaged in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Since Trump was inaugurated last January, a core focus of the president’s second term in office has been to go after a wide variety of fraud allegations. One of the most recent notable examples of this came this past winter after Trump sent Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents into Minneapolis to investigate alleged daycare fraud scams that he said were being actively perpetuated by Somali immigrants in the city. While the allegations stemmed from a real scandal dating back to the height of the COVID-19 pandemic that saw dozens of arrests, no additional arrests were ultimately made in connection to any new daycare fraud scandals in Minneapolis after ICE surged into the city.Some other claims of fraud that the president has repeatedly touted on social media and in speeches — such as the assertion that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him — have also been investigated at length in recent years and repeatedly debunked.It remains unknown what specific topics Vance may be assigned by Trump to help investigate.
President Donald Trump says that Vice President JD Vance is about to get an additional new role in his administration.
According to Trump, the vice president is set to receive the responsibilities of a newly created job title in the White House: “fraud czar.”
“Vice President JD Vance is now in charge of ‘FRAUD’ in the United States,” wrote Trump on Friday in a post on Truth Social. “It is massive and pervasive, and the job he will be doing, in conjunction with many great people within the Trump Administration, will be a major factor in how great the future of our Country will be.”
“We will call him the ‘FRAUD CZAR,’ and his focus will be ‘EVERYWHERE,'” continued Trump. “But primarily in those Blue States where CROOKED DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS, like those in California, Illinois, Minnesota (Somalia beware!), Maine, New York, and many others, have had a ‘free for all’ in the unprecedented theft of Taxpayer Money. The numbers are so large that, if successful, we would literally be able to balance our American Budget. Raids have already started in L.A. Good Luck JD!”
Additional details about Vance’s new role were not immediately clear from the president’s post.
Despite this, U.S. presidents giving assignments on particular agenda items of importance to their vice presidents has a very long history in Washington, D.C. For example, during the Biden administration, Vice President Kamala Harris was assigned to lead negotiations with Latin American countries in reducing emigration throughout the region to the United States. Years before, when Biden was Barack Obama’s vice president, he spearheaded the administration’s Cancer Moonshot efforts. And during the George W. Bush administration, former Vice President Dick Cheney had an outsized role in foreign policy as the country engaged in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Since Trump was inaugurated last January, a core focus of the president’s second term in office has been to go after a wide variety of fraud allegations. One of the most recent notable examples of this came this past winter after Trump sent Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents into Minneapolis to investigate alleged daycare fraud scams that he said were being actively perpetuated by Somali immigrants in the city. While the allegations stemmed from a real scandal dating back to the height of the COVID-19 pandemic that saw dozens of arrests, no additional arrests were ultimately made in connection to any new daycare fraud scandals in Minneapolis after ICE surged into the city.
Some other claims of fraud that the president has repeatedly touted on social media and in speeches — such as the assertion that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him — have also been investigated at length in recent years and repeatedly debunked.
It remains unknown what specific topics Vance may be assigned by Trump to help investigate.