Drama inside the Trump camp is heating up, with insiders dishing to the Wall Street Journal that the former president is losing patience with Attorney General Pam Bondi’s leadership.
According to sources close to the White House, Trump’s gripes about Bondi aren’t a recent thing—he’s apparently been calling her ‘weak,’ unimpressed by her handling of his agenda, and frustrated she hasn’t gone harder after his rivals.
This bubbling tension reportedly intensified as Trump pushed the Justice Department to ramp up crackdowns on political opponents and fast-track his personal priorities. Bondi—which Trump is said to have criticized more than once behind closed doors—is catching more blame than ever, claim administration insiders.
Not one to keep his feelings quiet, Trump has allegedly kicked around ideas like bringing in outside special prosecutors to hurry things along. True to his reputation, the ex-president is said to have aired complaints to trusted allies over Bondi’s lack of fireworks, especially over her failure to take aim at former FBI boss James Comey and New York’s Attorney General Letitia James—two prominent figures who’ve made Trump’s legal battles that much rougher.
While Bondi contends she’s laser-focused on keeping America safe, her efforts haven’t impressed everyone in the Trump orbit. Critics say she bungled the FBI’s management of those infamous Jeffrey Epstein files, a scandal that’s haunted Trump’s PR and earned him flak even from loyalists. Adding fuel to the fire, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles labeled Bondi’s actions as a whiff in a Vanity Fair interview, a sentiment Trump is rumored to agree with.
The president’s impatience reportedly spilled into direct confrontations with Bondi herself, though in public, he’s keeping up appearances. In a chat with the Wall Street Journal, Trump gave Bondi an enthusiastic thumbs-up, calling her ‘excellent’ and praising her fight against what he referred to as ‘radical left lunatics.’ But behind the scenes, whispers suggest Trump isn’t quite as satisfied as he claims, and his dissatisfaction may be reaching a boiling point.
