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LetMyPeopleVote

(179,954 posts)
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 04:07 PM 4 hrs ago

MS NOW-Pam Bondi's portrait already taken down at Justice Department

Just a day after her firing, the former attorney general’s pictures have been taken down — and discarded in a trash bin.

Pam Bondi’s portrait already taken down at Justice Department
Just a day after her firing, the former attorney general’s pictures have been taken down — and discarded in a trash bin.

(@mygateway.bsky.social) 2026-04-03T17:56:21.648Z

https://www.ms.now/news/pam-bondis-portrait-already-taken-down-at-justice-department

It did not take long for the pictures to come off the wall.

Within hours of the news that President Donald Trump had fired Pam Bondi as attorney general, images began circulating of her framed portrait, unceremoniously removed from its place of honor near the president and vice president on the walls of Justice Department offices.

One photo obtained by MS NOW showed Bondi’s portrait in a trash bin.


...What Bondi did not discuss publicly was the respected veteran she demoted over the incident: Devin DeBacker. He had been the acting chief of the national security division.

“They better take her picture down,” one former national security division official, who is among several still disturbed by Bondi’s removal of DeBacker, told MS NOW.

Nearly all of the senior career officials in the Biden DOJ served loyally and ably during Trump’s first term, without incident.

Now it’s Bondi who has been shown the door, and many DOJ veterans are quietly celebrating.

Bondi could not be reached for comment.
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MS NOW-Pam Bondi's portrait already taken down at Justice Department (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote 4 hrs ago OP
Is that real or A.I.? Botany 4 hrs ago #1
This entire administration belongs in the trash so... Initech 3 hrs ago #2
One rumor that AG Paxton (TX) may get Bondi's job Eddie Haskell 60 3 hrs ago #3
I'd like to imagine her stuff being thrown out the window like one of those bad breakup movies. RoeVWade 3 hrs ago #4
They should save it long enough to make a decent digital image DFW 3 hrs ago #5
Take them all outside and have a Bondi fire Raven123 3 hrs ago #6
Betty Bowers-I'm living for the day when trash bins throughout Washington DC look like this: LetMyPeopleVote 2 hrs ago #7

Botany

(77,348 posts)
1. Is that real or A.I.?
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 04:16 PM
4 hrs ago

Bye bye Bondi.

But she will land in a multi million dollar job of one of Trump’s fossil fuel friends
or crypto buddies to buy her silence.

Eddie Haskell 60

(101 posts)
3. One rumor that AG Paxton (TX) may get Bondi's job
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 04:43 PM
3 hrs ago

Paxton is corrupt so naturally he's MAGA favorite. The primary runoff is end of May so probably not enough time to appoint but they really don't want Cornyn and Paxton fight. I can see MAGA R's getting upset that choice taken from them but they would probably love him as Trump's AG anyway.

RoeVWade

(897 posts)
4. I'd like to imagine her stuff being thrown out the window like one of those bad breakup movies.
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 04:45 PM
3 hrs ago

nt+

DFW

(60,210 posts)
5. They should save it long enough to make a decent digital image
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 04:59 PM
3 hrs ago

Save the prison system the cost of a mug shot for when she begins her sentence.

LetMyPeopleVote

(179,954 posts)
7. Betty Bowers-I'm living for the day when trash bins throughout Washington DC look like this:
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 05:25 PM
2 hrs ago

I'm living for the day when trash bins throughout Washington DC look like this:

Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) 2026-04-03T18:42:16.373Z
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