President Donald Trump has repeatedly complained in recent weeks that Attorney General Pam Bondi is weak and ineffective at enforcing his agenda, according to a Wall Street Journal report published Monday.
Now, Trump is reportedly on the verge of pushing Bondi out of the way and appointing special counsels to speed up progress.
Trump’s criticisms of Bondi have grown more frequent in recent months and wants the Justice Department to more effectively implement his priorities, according to the Journal.
Trump forcibly denied the Journal report in a statement.
“Pam is doing an excellent job. She has been my friend for many years. Tremendous progress is being made against radical left lunatics who are good at only one thing, cheating in elections and the crimes they commit,” Trump said.
But according to the Journal, Trump has privately expressed anger at Bondi… including her mishandling the prosecutions of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
The Justice Department previously brought charges against both Comey and James, but a judge dismissed the cases in November. The judge ruled that the Trump administration had improperly appointed Lindsey Halligan, the attorney who obtained those indictments, and threw out the charges.
Since that ruling, Bondi’s Department of Justice has tried and failed on two separate occasions to persuade a grand jury to indict James.
Trump has also complained frequently that Bondi’s bungling of the FBI files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, which has caused months of political and personal headaches for the president.
When White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles told Vanity Fair in December that Bondi whiffed on her handling of the Epstein files, Trump told staff he agreed.
Wiles said that Bondi “completely whiffed on appreciating that that was the very targeted group that cared about this.”
The controversy started in February 2025, when Bondi presented conservative influencers with binders labeled “The Epstein Files: Phase 1” during a White House visit. She claimed Epstein’s “client list” was on her desk.
Almost all of the content contained had already been made public.
Since then, the FBI has repeatedly missed deadlines to make the Epstein files available to the public despite being required to by law.
The Justice Department has released only one percent of the total documents on the Epstein case.