Acting AG Todd Blanche plans to maneuver into Pam Bondi’s previous workplace subsequent week, new memos reveal | EUROtoday

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche plans to maneuver into Pam Bondi’s previous workplace within the coming days, based on a brand new report.

President Donald Trump fired Bondi final week and introduced that her deputy, Blanche, would change into the appearing legal professional normal. Now, he’s planning on shifting into her previous fifth-floor workplace on the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., on Monday, CNN studies, citing a memo Blanche despatched to staff on the deputy legal professional normal’s workplace.

In a separate memo to employees reviewed by CNN, Blanche thanked Bondi “for her friendship, service, and selfless dedication to our department and country.” He additionally mentioned the Department of Justice’s mission “remains the same today as it was yesterday.”

“President Trump has promised a safe America and will continue to deliver on that promise,” he added.

Trump introduced Bondi’s departure in a Truth Social submit on April 2, and mentioned she’d be “transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector.” At the identical time, he introduced that Blanche, his former private legal protection legal professional, could be stepping in to function the appearing legal professional normal.

The president fired Bondi after privately expressing frustrations about her dealing with of the Jeffrey Epstein information and her failed makes an attempt to prosecute his perceived political foes,The New York Times reported final week. The announcement got here a few month after Trump fired Kristi Noem as homeland safety secretary.

It was additionally introduced Wednesday that Bondi won’t attend a beforehand scheduled House Oversight Committee deposition associated to the Justice Department’s investigation into Epstein.

At a press convention on Tuesday, Blanche instructed reporters it’d be “an honor” to be nominated to completely substitute Bondi.

“If President Trump chooses to keep me as acting, that’s an honor. If he chooses to nominate me, that’s an honor,” he instructed reporters.

“If he chooses to nominate somebody else and I go back to being the [deputy attorney general]that’s an honor. If he chooses to nominate somebody else and asks me to go do something else, I will say, ‘Thank you very much, I love you, sir,’” he continued.

Earlier within the press convention, Blanche claimed that “nobody has any idea why the attorney general is no longer the attorney general … except for President Trump.” When requested to elaborate, he mentioned, “I don’t operate every day trying to second-guess what President Trump or anybody else is thinking.”

He later added: “I grow tired of people in the media saying why President Trump did or did not do something, because President Trump’s the only one that knows that.”