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Bondi is OUT — and Trump already has a replacement in mind
President Donald Trump has officially fired Pam Bondi from her post as attorney general, and another administration official is expected to replace her.
Several reports indicated that Bondi’s firing was imminent after months of prolonged scrutiny, particularly over her mishandling of the Epstein files, which quickly became an Achilles’ heel for the administration. An administration official told Blaze News that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is Trump’s top pick to replace Bondi after the two met and discussed the role on Tuesday.
‘We love Pam.’
Bondi is expected to become the second Cabinet official to leave the administration, following the departure of former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
“Pam Bondi is a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year,” Trump announced in a Truth Social post. “Pam did a tremendous job overseeing a massive crackdown in Crime across our Country, with Murders plummeting to their lowest level since 1900.”
RELATED: ‘Catching you red-handed!’ Massie gets sassy with Bondi over Epstein redactions
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“We love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future, and our Deputy Attorney General, and a very talented and respected Legal Mind, Todd Blanche, will step in to serve as Acting Attorney General,” Trump added. “Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Tensions over the attorney general’s performance reached a fever pitch after Bondi apparently failed to adequately comply with the law, which Trump himself signed, requiring the release of all Epstein files, prompting calls for her removal.
RELATED: Trump makes big appearance in Epstein files — just not the way Democrats may have hoped
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Critics noted that the release of these files was repeatedly delayed and that the files had been at times improperly redacted to protect potential co-conspirators while revealing the identity of alleged victims. In a heated House Oversight hearing back in February, Republican Rep. Thomas Massie (Ky.) ripped into Bondi over the Epstein files rollout, saying it was “literally the worst thing you could do to the survivors.”
During this hearing, Bondi also attempted to argue that the Epstein files were just another Democrat ploy to distract from Trump’s accomplishments, infamously noting that the Dow Jones had surpassed 50,000 points.
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Report REVEALS Kristi Noem’s husband’s alleged secret ‘bimbofication’ fetish
Social media was taken by storm this week when reporting by the Daily Mail revealed that Kristi Noem’s husband, Bryon Noem, was allegedly chatting up women from the “bimbofication” fetish scene.
However, not only was he allegedly praising the heavily augmented appearances of the women he spoke to — but he was allegedly sending them photos of himself wearing leggings, a flesh-colored, skintight suit, and what appear to be balloons mimicking large breasts under his top.
“I heard a really, really interesting story about this. So he [allegedly] liked to message online porn performers and send them money. Allegedly, he sent them up to $25,000. And the obvious place you go with this is, ‘Hey, his behavior could have left Kristi Noem vulnerable to blackmail,’” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales comments.
And according to an article from the New York Post, Noem herself responded that she was “blindsided.”
However, Gonzales isn’t buying it.
“Are you really blindsided by something like that? Like, you really have no idea that your husband likes to cross-dress and he’s sending up to $25,000 to online porn stars?” Gonzales asks.
“In our marriage,” Gonzales tells her husband, Stephen, “that just literally would not be possible to be blindsided by.”
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Trump announces plan to pay DHS workers amid ongoing Democrat shutdown
President Donald Trump has announced plans to issue paychecks to Department of Homeland Security employees amid the ongoing partial shutdown, which has left Transportation Security Administration officers working without pay for weeks and jammed up airport security lines nationwide.
TSA agents’ last full paycheck was on Feb. 14. Nearly 500 workers have quit since the shutdown started, and the callout rate reached 11.83% as of March 26, CNN reported.
‘Defund-the-police Democrats have kept @DHSgov closed in an attempt to slow down ICE’s efforts to remove murderers, rapists.’
Trump previously directed the DHS to work with the Office of Management and Budget “to use funds that have a reasonable and logical nexus to TSA operations to provide TSA employees with the compensation and benefits that would have accrued to them if not for the Democrat-led DHS shutdown, consistent with applicable law.”
As a result of Trump’s directive, on March 30, many TSA workers received at least part of their overdue pay after missing two full paychecks.
On Thursday, Trump announced additional steps to ensure all DHS employees receive their wages.
“Republicans are UNIFIED, and moving forward on a plan that will reload funding for our FANTASTIC Border Patrol and Immigration Enforcement Officers,” Trump wrote in a post on social media.
RELATED: Senate approves DHS funding — but there’s a catch
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Trump criticized Democrats for being “fully and 100% committed to the Radical Left Policy of Open Borders and Zero Immigration Enforcement” that has allowed unvetted “Murderers and Criminals of all types” into the United States. He added that he hopes their actions will “cost them dearly in the Midterms!”
The president stated that he would take executive action to address the ongoing issue.
“I will soon sign an order to pay ALL of the incredible employees at the Department of Homeland Security,” Trump wrote. “Their families have suffered far too long at the hands of the Extreme Liberal ‘Leaders,’ Cryin’ Chuck Schumer and Hakeem ‘High Tax’ Jeffries.”
Trump declared that “help is on the way for our Brave and Patriotic Public Servants who have continued to work hard, and do their part to protect and defend our Country.”
RELATED: Delta revokes major travel perk for Congress amid ongoing DHS shutdown
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DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin thanked the president for his latest announcement.
“For over a month, the defund-the-police Democrats have kept @DHSgov closed in an attempt to slow down ICE’s efforts to remove murderers, rapists, pedophiles, gang members, and terrorists from our country and open our borders. Time and time again the Democrats have prioritized violent illegal aliens over American citizens,” Mullin wrote.
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Suspect consults ChatGPT after brother allegedly plants bomb at US Air Force base
One-half of the sibling pair charged in connection with an IED discovered at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa allegedly consulted an AI bot to help the other sibling flee the country.
Alen is believed to still be in China.
After Alen Zheng, 20, allegedly planted the bomb at the base visitor center last month, his sister Ann Mary Zheng, 27, allegedly used ChatGPT to help Alen escape to China. Federal prosecutors claim that she asked the bot:
- how to obtain a Chinese visa,
- how they might transfer ownership of some of Alen’s belongings to her, and
- to find schools in China that Alen might be able to attend.
Ann Mary is accused of helping Alen cover his tracks and then evade capture. She has been charged with evidence tampering and assisting after the fact and faces up to 30 years if convicted. She appeared in court on Tuesday regarding possible pretrial release, though the judge has not yet issued a ruling.
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A 911 call to report the bomb came in on March 11, but investigators found nothing in their initial search of the base. An IED was later discovered on March 16. The device never detonated, but officials have described it as “viable” and “potentially very deadly.”
Alen and Ann Mary Zheng bought plane tickets to China on March 11 and flew there on March 12. For reasons unknown, Ann Mary returned to the U.S. on March 17. Alen is believed to still be in China.
Though he remains at large, Alen has been charged with attempted damage of government property by fire or explosion, unlawful making of a destructive device, and possession of an unregistered destructive device. If convicted, he could spend 40 years in federal prison.
Alen and Ann Mary Zheng are U.S. citizens, but their parents, Qiu Qin Zou and Jia Zhang Zheng, are not. According to the Tampa Bay Times, the Chinese natives applied for asylum in the U.S. “years ago” but were denied. They were detained shortly after the IED was discovered and now face deportation.
At a press conference, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Florida Gregory Kehoe claimed that while the siblings’ mother was not currently charged with any crime, the possibility of future charges against her could not be precluded.
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Iranian regimists throw a fit after Trump threatens to send their country back to the ‘Stone Ages’
President Donald Trump characterized Operation Epic Fury as a successful military operation that is “nearing completion” in his address to the nation on Wednesday evening.
Although he struck a celebratory tone — lauding, for instance, American armed forces’ “swift, decisive, overwhelming victories on the battlefield” — Trump suggested that the increasingly unpopular conflict will continue for at least two or three more weeks, during which time the U.S. will purportedly “bring [Iran] back to the Stone Ages, where they belong.”
‘Hollywood delusions have so poisoned your minds.’
While well-received by some in America — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), for instance, said that it was “the best speech I could’ve hoped for” — remnants of the Iranian regime were less receptive to Trump’s remarks.
Tasnim News Agency, a state media outfit associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, reported that Amir Hatami, the commander in chief of the Iranian Regular Armed Forces, advised his subordinates to “monitor enemy movements and actions with maximum vigilance, analyzing them moment by moment, and to implement countermeasures against enemy assaults at the appropriate time.”
Hatami reportedly noted further that in the event of a ground invasion into Iran, “not a single individual should survive.”
RELATED: Trump says Iran asked for a ceasefire — but the US has one major condition
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In addition to vowing counterattacks, Hatami framed Trump’s speech as confirmation that the U.S. and Israel intend to “erase Iran’s name and existence.”
Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of the Iranian parliament, shared a statement on X stressing that Iranians “give everything — everything we’ve got — for the land we love.”
“We are not warmongers,” continued Ghalibaf. “But when the time comes to defend our homeland, every last one of us becomes a soldier.”
The speaker claimed that roughly seven million Iranians have committed to picking up arms in defense of their country. He then concluded with the challenge, “Bring it on.”
Ebrahim Zolfaghari, spokesman for Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters — the outfit that coordinates Iran’s joint military operations — said in a video statement on Thursday that American and Israeli intelligence about Iranian military might “is incomplete” and that their alleged faulty assumptions “will only deepen the quagmire in which you have trapped yourselves.”
Zolfaghari suggested further that “this war will continue until your humiliation, disgrace, permanent regret, definite defeat, and surrender.”
Seyed Majid Moosavi, an Iranian military commander presently running the IRGC Aerospace Force, said in response to War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s echo of Trump’s “Stone Age” threat, “It is you who are taking your soldiers to their graves, not Iran, whom you seek to drag back to the Stone Age. Hollywood delusions have so poisoned your minds that, with your paltry 250-year history, you threaten a civilization over 6,000 years old.”
While Iranian regimists responded especially poorly to Trump’s speech, oil prices and the markets also reacted in an unfavorable manner.
Brent crude oil was trading at under $100 per barrel on Wednesday prior to the president’s remarks. It shot up afterward in intraday trading to over $108 per barrel and remained over $107 on Thursday.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average reportedly dropped by 1.3% on Thursday; the S&P 500 dropped 1.2%; and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.7%.
As promised, the U.S. continued its aerial attack on Iran in the wake of Trump’s speech, allegedly wounding former Iranian foreign minister Kamal Kharazi — an adviser to the government whom the New York Times reported was apparently helping to facilitate peace talks between Vice President JD Vance and Iranian authorities.
Iran, in turn, launched numerous missiles at Israel and neighboring Arab states on Thursday.
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2 comets may be visible in PH sky this April – PAGASA
Filipinos are in for an astronomical treat as two comets may be visible from the Philippine sky this April, the state weather bureau said in its latest astronomical diary.
DMW to OFWs: Don”t use visitor visas to work in other countries
The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) on Thursday reminded overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and other Filipino nationals traveling to Australia to strictly follow visa conditions and ensure they use the correct visa category for their intended purpose.
DMW: 187 OFWs from Middle East back in PH, 245 more arriving on Friday
The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) on Thursday reported the safe return of 187 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from Lebanon and Kuwait amid the ongoing hostilities in the Middle East.
Gilas Pilipinas qualifies for FIBA 3×3 Asia Cup main draw
Gilas Pilipinas secured a spot in the FIBA 3×3 Asia Cup men’s tournament main draw after sweeping Qualifying Draw A on Friday in Singapore.
