Why did Trump fire Pam Bondi from Justice Department, who is Todd Blanche?

US President Donald Trump has announced that he is removing Attorney General Pam Bondi from her post as head of the Justice Department.

The president posted on Truth Social that Bondi would be “transitioning” to a new role in the private sector.
What happened to Pam Bondi?
Trump ousted Bondi as attorney general, ending a tumultuous 14-month tenure at the Justice Department.

Trump described Bondi as a “loyal friend.” He named Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who previously served as Trump’s criminal defence lawyer, as acting attorney general.

Trump is also reportedly considering Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin as a potential permanent replacement.

In a statement, Bondi said her transition would take place over the next month and added that she remained “eternally grateful for the trust that President Trump placed in me to Make America Safe Again.”

The announcement came less than two months after a tense congressional hearing in which Bondi faced aggressive questioning from politicians, with sometimes heated exchanges. At one point she insulted a Democratic member calling him a “washed-up loser”.

Trump said her new private sector role would be “announced at a date in the near future”.
Who is Pam Bondi?
Bondi, 60, served as Florida’s first female attorney general from 2011 to 2019 after more than 18 years as a prosecutor in Hillsborough County.

In Florida, she built a tough-on-crime profile, focusing on human trafficking, child abuse and the crackdown on so-called “pill mills,” clinics that illegally prescribed large quantities of painkillers, fuelling the US opioid crisis.