Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley discusses President Donald Trump’s termination of Pam Bondi as attorney general on ‘America Reports.’

There is an old joke that scientists switched from lab rats to lawyers because you do not get as attached to lawyers. President Donald Trump has shown the same tendency to avoid becoming attached to either private or government counsel. Attorney General Pam Bondi is only the latest in a long line of lawyers let go by a president who was made famous with the tagline "You're fired."

There is no evidence of bad blood between President Trump and Bondi. The attorney general has been attacked over her loyalty to the president and has been by his side in some of the most precarious moments, from impeachment to criminal defense. As his "apprentices" learned, this is not personal. It's business.

Jeff Sessions. Rex Tillerson. Bill Barr. Mark Esper. Kristi Noem. Trump's Cabinet picks are known more for shelving than storage.

Indeed, being a cabinet member in a Trump administration is about as secure as being a quarterback for the Cleveland Browns.

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Trump has always viewed terminations as a way to spur higher performance levels.

There is a reason why Trump may have wanted to move now in swapping out attorneys general. There are growing predictions that the Democrats will lose the House and could now lose the Senate.

Democrats are running on pledges to unleash a new spasm of investigations and impeachments, targeting not just President Trump but anyone who supports him.

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Figures like Susan Rice, top policy adviser to both Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, have promised "revenge" against all those who pushed Democrats out of power and warned that "it’s not going to end well for them."

Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies during the House Judiciary Committee hearing titled "Oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice," in Rayburn building on Wednesday, February 11, 2026.  (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc)

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., pledged that, as soon as they regain power, they will start throwing Trump people in jail when they retake Congress.

Democratic strategist James Carville previously threatened that "collaborators" may be treated in the same way as they were after World War II.

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Trump's ability to secure confirmation of a successor will become far more challenging as he approaches the midterm elections.

Trump has to decide who will be the best hand on the wheel in those choppy waters ahead.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has the street cred that Trump values. An accomplished litigator and former prosecutor, Blanche is neither flashy nor gregarious. He is a lethal litigator who can gut you like a trout without breaking a sweat. He has been at the president's side in and out of court. While he will be a lightning rod for Democrats who have attacked him for his role in the release of the Epstein files, his firmness in dealing with a hostile media likely appealed to the president.

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Blanche offers a seamless transition for the department. He literally only has to walk down the hallway to take the reins from Bondi.

Todd Blanche served as Deputy Attorney General with Pam Bondi before she was fired Wednesday by President Trump. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Another name reportedly under consideration is EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, who would likely be the easiest to confirm and the most popular with members of Congress. Zeldin transformed the EPA in short order, including clearing away barriers to increasing energy production. Almost elected governor of New York, Zeldin has cross-over appeal in Washington as someone who cut his teeth in this town.

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Other candidates include state attorneys general, as well as wild cards like U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, a former judge with a tough-as-nails reputation in Washington, D.C. It is a deep bench.

There will be no shortage of applicants for the job. The office of the attorney general in the Trump administration has everything that one could want in Washington. Everything, that is, except job security.

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Jonathan Turley is a Fox News Media contributor and the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.  

He is the author of the new book "Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution" (Simon & Schuster, Feb 3, 2026), on the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution.on the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution.

He is a nationally recognized legal scholar who has written extensively in areas ranging from constitutional law to legal history to the Supreme Court. He has written over three dozen academic articles that have appeared in a variety of leading law journals.

Professor Turley also served as counsel in some of the most notable cases in the last two decades including the representation of whistleblowers, military personnel, former cabinet members, judges, members of Congress, and a wide range of other clients.

Professor Turley testified more than 50 times before the House and Senate on constitutional and statutory issues, including the Senate confirmation hearings of cabinet members and jurists such as Justice Neil Gorsuch. He also appeared as an expert witness in both the impeachment hearings of President Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.

Professor Turley received his B.A. at the University of Chicago and his J.D. at Northwestern. In 2008, he was given an honorary Doctorate of Law from John Marshall Law School for his contributions to civil liberties and the public interest. 

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