2026-04-04T09:00:57.294Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：汉娜·拉宾诺维茨、埃文·佩雷斯
发布于2026年4月4日，美国东部时间上午5:00
2026年3月23日，唐纳德·特朗普总统与司法部长帕姆·邦迪在田纳西州孟菲斯的田纳西州国民警卫队基地参与一场公共安全圆桌讨论。
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周三，在从白宫驱车前往最高法院的短短路程中，邦迪被告知总统已将她解职，免去其司法部长职务。
但在接下来的24小时里，她仍扮演着在职官员的角色。
她面带微笑走出座车，在关于公民出生权的口头辩论现场坐在唐纳德·特朗普身旁。随后，她会见了佛罗里达州一名高级检察官，推动对特朗普的一位政治对手提起诉讼，并于当晚出席了总统的全国电视讲话。
2026年3月26日，副司法部长托德·布兰奇在德克萨斯州格普林举办的2026年保守派政治行动会议上发言。丹尼尔·科尔/路透社 托德·布兰奇接手司法部，难以摆脱爱泼斯坦档案的阴影 阅读时长：6分钟
助手们坚称一切“照常进行”。
到周四中旬，邦迪被解职的消息已泄露给媒体，而她当时已在佛罗里达州参加与当地警长的预定会议。
邦迪动荡不安的14个月司法部长任期就此画上句号。她将把按照特朗普意愿重塑后的司法部交给自己的副手、总统前辩护律师托德·布兰奇。
熟悉邦迪的消息人士称，很难确定导致她最终被解职的具体事件。数月来，特朗普一直在抱怨邦迪未能积极针对他的个人和政治对手提起诉讼。
她还一直被爱泼斯坦档案缠身，这给本届政府和总统本人带来了无尽的麻烦，因为他因与这名已定罪性犯罪者的友谊而遭到批评。
这份工作也让邦迪不堪重负，消息人士称，她有时觉得自己被要求去做不可能完成的事。
在邦迪担任司法部长期间，司法部确实在法庭上赢得了一些令特朗普满意的案件。其中包括起诉特朗普前国家安全顾问、后转为批评者的约翰·博尔顿违反《机密文件处理法案》，博尔顿目前仍在为自己的指控抗辩；以及阻碍特别检察官杰克·史密斯关于特朗普涉嫌违规处理机密文件的报告公开。
周四，邦迪在X平台上发文称，她“即将担任一个令我倍感兴奋的重要私营部门职位”。她将在约一个月后正式离任。
总统的议程
邦迪在特朗普第二届政府就职首日就获得了参议院确认，她当时承诺不会以政治因素作为美国首席执法官的决策依据。
但她上任的最初几天就证明事实恰恰相反：她愿意做出往届司法部长不敢做的事，将司法部塑造成符合总统政治愿景的机构。
短短几周内，邦迪就清除了司法部内她认为反对特朗普、其支持者或其政策的职业检察官，关闭了涉及白宫朋友和盟友相关工作的办公室，并主导了历史上最激进的为总统利益服务的诉讼策略之一。
邦迪被解职引发关于司法部独立性的争议 时长：2分59秒 • 来源：CNN
邦迪被解职引发关于司法部独立性的争议
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针对特朗普对手的刑事调查很快接踵而至，其中一些是由总统公开下令的，包括针对前联邦调查局局长詹姆斯·科米、纽约州总检察长莱蒂夏·詹姆斯和民主党参议员亚当·希夫的调查。
“我们不能再拖延了，”特朗普在9月20日针对“帕姆”的社交媒体帖文中说道，“正义必须得到伸张，现在！！！”
但这些调查都不了了之。针对科米和詹姆斯的指控被法官驳回，法官称由特朗普亲自任命的检察官无权提起此类诉讼。其他案件也被大陪审团驳回，其中包括针对民主党议员的案件，这些议员曾发布视频呼吁军人违抗政府的非法命令。
维护特朗普政策和行政命令的案件多次被初审法官驳回，尤其是在总统任期的前100天内。在许多案件中——尤其是针对特朗普强硬移民政策的诉讼——司法部推动快速上诉法院介入，有时也取得了成功。
消息人士此前告诉CNN，邦迪不稳定的履职记录在过去一年中多次让她陷入困境。紧张局势在1月爆发，当时总统斥责她和一群美国检察官软弱无能。消息人士称，他当时险些解雇邦迪，但特朗普的幕僚长苏西·怀尔斯——自邦迪2010年竞选佛罗里达州总检察长以来就是她的朋友——暂时帮她保住了职位。
据一位了解内情的消息人士透露，幕后方面，美国环境保护署署长李·泽尔丁一直在与总统定期会谈，似乎在为如果特朗普罢免邦迪后接任该职位做准备。
尽管如此，消息人士称，邦迪还是竭尽全力讨好特朗普，尤其是在最近几周，她和布兰奇似乎加大力度向总统展示他们正在落实他的优先事项，以期保住自己的工作。
就在总统因无人调查他毫无根据的选民欺诈指控而大发雷霆之际，邦迪允许佐治亚州的检察官申请搜查令，搜查富尔顿县选举总部的选票，并任命前众议员丹·毕晓普负责全国所有与选举相关的调查。
她向议员们提供了一次闭门简报，试图避免爱泼斯坦事件进一步引发尴尬，但这次闭门会议很快失控，民主党议员在半小时内就离场了。
据熟悉此事的消息人士透露，有关所谓“反武器化”努力的会议有所增加，对负责调查特朗普看重的案件的检察官施加的压力也越来越大。
本周，邦迪做了最后一搏，向特朗普展示她能够落实他想要的起诉。据一位了解内情的人士透露，她召集迈阿密联邦检察官杰森·雷丁·基尼奥内斯和该办公室其他人员开会，讨论针对前中央情报局局长约翰·布伦南的调查时机。
该消息人士称，基尼奥内斯自去年12月以来就承诺很快会对布伦南提起诉讼，但负责该案的职业检察官表示，他们的工作还远未完成，是否提起指控还需要一段时间。他们还警告称，此案证据不足，胜诉几率渺茫，尤其是因为必须在华盛顿特区提起诉讼，那里的大陪审团曾拒绝受理被视为政治化的保护措施相关案件。
泰·科布：特朗普解雇邦迪是因为她“无法像他想要的那样，把敌人的人头血淋淋地端到他面前” 时长：5分36秒 • 来源：CNN
泰·科布：特朗普解雇邦迪是因为她“无法像他想要的那样，把敌人的人头血淋淋地端到他面前……”
时长：5分36秒
爱泼斯坦档案的阴影
邦迪最严重的失误可能给特朗普的第二届任期留下了污点：爱泼斯坦档案事件。
风波始于她上任后不久，当时邦迪在福克斯新闻频道节目中称，性侵犯者杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的客户名单“此刻就放在我的办公桌上”。消息人士此前告诉CNN，这番言论让白宫措手不及，邦迪后来表示，她当时泛指与杰弗里·爱泼斯坦有关的文件。
但这次采访已经在网上引发了轩然大波，并引发了两党各界的期待，认为司法部终于准备好公布长期流传的证据，这些证据可能会牵连与爱泼斯坦一同虐待女童的有权势人物。
但司法部后来表示，这份客户名单并不存在，这场黄金时段的口误最终演变成一场公关噩梦。数月的抗议促使国会通过了一项新法律，要求司法部公布所有与爱泼斯坦相关的文件，而该法律本身也遭到批评，称其范围过于宽泛，且对受害者保护不足。
美国有线电视新闻网报道称，政府官员和共和党议员对邦迪无法平息公众抗议感到沮丧，白宫临时告知这位司法部长，她不得再接受福克斯新闻的采访，转而由布兰奇负责公共宣传以及就记录公布事宜与国会沟通。
特朗普再次私下抱怨这位司法部长无法终结这一问题。
上个月，邦迪被传唤至国会就她处理爱泼斯坦档案的情况作证，这成为压垮她司法部长生涯的最后一根稻草之一。尽管已被解职，她仍需出庭作证。
2026年2月20日，华盛顿白宫詹姆斯·布雷迪新闻发布厅，司法部长帕姆·邦迪在唐纳德·特朗普总统结束记者讲话后离开。亚历克斯·布兰登/美联社/资料图 帕姆·邦迪注定会失败，但她也让情况变得更糟 阅读时长：5分钟
在以代理司法部长身份首次公开露面时，布兰奇周四晚间对福克斯新闻表示，爱泼斯坦档案与邦迪被解职无关。
“我认为，就爱泼斯坦档案而言，这是过去一年司法部的一部分，不应再成为未来任何事情的一部分，”布兰奇说道。
主持人杰西·沃特茨笑了起来，回应道：“我不确定你是否完全理解人们对此的感受。”
CNN的凯特琳·波兰茨为本报道贡献了内容。
How Pam Bondi lost her job
2026-04-04T09:00:57.294Z / CNN
By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez
PUBLISHED Apr 4, 2026, 5:00 AM ET
President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi participate in a roundtable discussion on public safety at a Tennessee Air National Guard Base in Memphis, Tennessee, on March 23, 2026.
Bruce Newman/AP
On the short drive from the White House to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, Pam Bondi was informed by the president that she was being removed as attorney general.
But for 24 hours, Bondi acted the part.
She emerged from the car smiling and sat next to Donald Trump during the oral arguments on birthright citizenship. Later, she met with a senior prosecutor from Florida to push for charges against one of Trump’s political enemies, and she attended the president’s address to the nation that evening.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks during the 2026 Conservative Political Action Conference in Grapevine, Texas, on March 26, 2026. Daniel Cole/Reuters Todd Blanche takes over the Justice Department, where there’s no escaping the Epstein files shadow 6 min read
Aides insisted that it was “business as usual.”
By mid-Thursday, when news of her ouster had leaked to the press, Bondi was already in Florida for a prescheduled meeting with local sheriffs.
So ended Bondi’s tumultuous 14 months as attorney general. She will leave a Justice Department remolded to Trump’s liking to her second-in-command and the president’s former defense lawyer, Todd Blanche.
Sources close to Bondi said it was hard to pinpoint a specific moment that led to her ultimate demise. Trump for months had been discussing his frustrations with Bondi over what he believed was a failure to aggressively bring cases against his personal and political foes.
She was also dogged by the Epstein files, which proved to be a never-ending headache for the administration and for the president himself as he faced criticism for his own friendship with the convicted sex offender.
The job took a toll on Bondi too, who sources said believed that she was at times being asked to do the impossible.
During Bondi’s time as attorney general, the department did land some cases in court that were pleasing to Trump. Those included the classified documents mishandling indictment of his former national security adviser-turned-critic John Bolton, who continues to fight his charges, and the stymying of the public release of special counsel Jack Smith’s report on Trump’s own alleged classified document mishandling.
In a post on X Thursday, Bondi said that she is “moving to an important private sector role I am thrilled about.” She will officially leave the department in about one month.
The president’s agenda
Bondi won Senate confirmation days into the second Trump administration by pledging that she would not make decisions as the nation’s chief law enforcement officer based on politics.
But her first days in office quickly proved the opposite: that she was willing to go where previous attorneys general wouldn’t and mold the Justice Department to a president’s political vision.
In a matter of weeks, Bondi purged the department of career prosecutors whom she perceived as against Trump, his supporters or his agenda, shut down offices whose work touched friends and allies of the White House, and presided over one of the most aggressive litigation strategies on behalf of a president in history.
Bondi’s ouster sparks debate on DOJ’s independence
2:59 • Source: CNN
Bondi’s ouster sparks debate on DOJ’s independence
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Criminal investigations into Trump’s adversaries soon followed, some of which were publicly ordered by the president, including against former FBI Director James Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James and Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff.
“We can’t delay any longer,” Trump said on social media in a September 20 post directed to “Pam.” “JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!”
Those investigations faltered, though. Charges against Comey and James were dismissed by a judge who said the prosecutor – personally appointed by Trump – that brought the cases didn’t have that authority to do so. Other cases were refused by grand juries, including one against Democratic lawmakers who posted a video urging service members to disobey illegal orders from the administration.
Cases defending Trump’s policies and executive orders were repeatedly slapped down by trial-level judges, especially those in the first 100 days of the presidency. In many — particularly challenges to Trump’s hardline approach to immigration – the Justice Department pushed for quick appellate court intervention. That was sometimes successful.
Bondi’s shaky track record put her in the hot seat several times throughout the past year, sources previously told CNN. Those tensions exploded in January, when the president lambasted her and a group of US attorneys as weak and ineffective. He came close to firing Bondi then, sources said, but Trump’s chief of staff Susie Wiles, one of Bondi’s friends since she ran for Florida attorney general in 2010, helped save her temporarily.
Behind the scenes, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin was having regular conversations with the president, seeming to lay the groundwork to take the job if Trump ousted Bondi, according to one source briefed on the matter.
Still, Bondi bent over backwards to satisfy Trump, sources said, particularly in recent weeks as she and Blanche appeared to increase efforts to show the president they were working on his priorities and possibly save her job.
As the president fumed over his unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud not being investigated, Bondi allowed prosecutors in Georgia to seek a search warrant to seize ballots from Fulton County election headquarters and tapped former Rep. Dan Bishop to lead all election-related probes across the country.
She offered a private briefing to lawmakers in an attempt to avoid further embarassment over the Epstein saga, but the closed-door meeting went off the rails and Democratic lawmakers walked out within a half hour.
Meetings on so-called anti-weaponization efforts increased, as did pressure on prosecutors overseeing investigations that were important to Trump, sources familiar with the matter said.
And this week, Bondi made a last-ditch effort to show Trump she could deliver on prosecutions he wants. She summoned Miami US Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones and others from that office overseeing the investigation of former CIA Director John Brennan for a meeting on the timing of the investigation, according to a person briefed on the matter.
Quiñones has promised since December that charges against Brennan could come soon, according to the source, but career prosecutors working on the case have signaled that their work is not nearly complete and a decision on charges remains some time away. They have also cautioned that while the case is not a strong one and could face long odds, particularly since it must be brought in Washington, DC, where grand juries have balked at protections viewed as politicized.
Ty Cobb: Trump fired Bondi because she ‘couldn’t bring Trump the bleeding heads of his enemies on a platter like he wanted’
5:36 • Source: CNN
Ty Cobb: Trump fired Bondi because she ‘couldn’t bring Trump the bleeding heads of his enemies on a platter …
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Shadow of the Epstein files
Bondi’s most serious offense threatened to leave a stain on Trump’s second term: the Epstein files.
The ordeal began soon in her tenure, when Bondi asserted on Fox News that a client list of sex predator Jeffrey Epstein was “sitting on my desk right now.” The comment took the White House by surprise, sources previously told CNN, and Bondi later said she was referring generally to documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.
But the interview had already sparked a firestorm online and fueled expectations from across the aisle that the department was finally ready to release long-rumored evidence that would implicate powerful men who may have abused girls alongside Epstein.
The client list, however, didn’t exist, the department later said, and what began as a primetime flub spiraled into a public relations nightmare. Months of backlash sparked Congress to pass a new law requiring the DOJ to release every document it had related to Epstein, which itself was criticized as being both too expansive and not protective enough for victims.
Administration officials and Republican lawmakers grew frustrated with Bondi’s inability to quiet the public outcries, CNN reported, and the White House temporarily told the attorney general that she could not appear in Fox News interviews, leaving Blanche to handle public messaging and communication with Congress about the release of the records.
Again, Trump privately complained about the attorney general for not being able to put an end to the issue.
Bondi was subpoenaed last month to testify to Congress on her handling of the Epstein files, one of the final blows to her future as attorney general. Despite her firing, she will still have to appear.
Attorney General Pam Bondi leaving after the end of President Donald Trump’s remarks to reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Febuary 20, 2026, in Washington. Alex Brandon/AP/File Pam Bondi was destined to fail. But she also made it worse 5 min read
In his first public appearance as acting attorney general, Blanche told Fox News Thursday evening that the Epstein files had nothing to do with Bondi’s removal.
“I think that to the extent that the Epstein files was a part of the past year of this Justice Department, it should not be a part of anything going forward,” Blanche said.
Host Jesse Watters laughed, responding, “I’m not sure you totally get what people feel about that.”
CNN’s Katelyn Polantz contributed to this report.