It seems that the young beauties with whom President Donald Trump surrounded himself are falling one by one.
First, Trump fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and now, Attorney General Pam Bondi. Bondi is out; Lee Zeldin, chief of the Environmental Protection Agency is in. Or so sources say.
Some might believe Trump canned Bondi because she fouled up on the Epstein files. But the Daily Mail reported today that she has a friendship with Trump enemy Eric Swalwell, the far-left Democratic representative from California, and tipped off Swalwell that the FBI was gathering a cache of documents about his relationship with suspected Chinese spy Christine Fang, known as Fang Fang.
On that note, Swalwell sent a cease-and-desist letter to FBI chieftain Kash Patel, The Associated Press reported, to stop the release of any such file.
Bye-bye Bondi
Trump announced today on Truth Social that Bondi got the pink slip. He praised the lawyer from Florida as if nothing much was amiss, almost as if Bondi had decided to quit of her own volition.
“Pam Bondi is a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year,” Trump wrote:
Pam did a tremendous job overseeing a massive crackdown in Crime across our Country, with Murders plummeting to their lowest level since 1900. 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.
In the interim, until the Senate confirms a successor, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, one of Trump’s many personal attorneys, will fill in.
Fox News reported that Trump fired Bondi before last night’s speech on the war against Iran.
“Bondi met with Trump in the Oval Office Wednesday night ahead of his speech to the nation on the war in Iran, according to two sources familiar with the meeting,” Fox News Digital reported:
Bondi departed for Florida Thursday morning, Fox News reported, where she is filming an NFL-affiliated child safety initiative.
The president is reportedly considering replacing Bondi with Environmental Protection Agency Director Lee Zeldin, according to the sources familiar with the matter. Trump held a meeting with Zeldin at the White House Tuesday to discuss wildfire and prevention, where talks of the transition also unfolded, according to an individual familiar with the meeting.
Bondi, the Daily Mail divulged, “begged” Trump not to can her.
After Trump told Bondi of her firing, she “responded by pleading for the President to give her more time in the role, but Trump remained firm that her time leading the agency was over.”
“She was unhappy and tried to change his mind,” a source told the website:
However, the President told her she was fired and that an announcement would be made shortly. The announcement had been due to be made on Friday but has been rushed out after rampant media speculation erupted overnight.
Bondi, Swalwell, Fang Fang
According to the Daily Mail, Trump believed Bondi spilled the beans to Swalwell about the FBI’s releasing the files on Swalwell’s relationship with Fang.
“She’s intervening in those matters,” the source told the website:
“The White House wasn’t pleased she was intervening due to her personal friendship with Swalwell,” the source added.
It is unclear why Bondi would have intervened, but it is believed that Bondi and Swalwell have a friendly relationship.
How friendly isn’t clear. But Swalwell was apparently so miffed about the release of files that he lawyered up, AP reported. His attorneys demanded that the FBI stop any such plan to release the skinny on him and the Chinese temptress Fang Fang.
“The cease-and-desist letter from the attorneys advises Patel that he would run afoul of both federal law and longstanding Justice Department policy if he moves forward with releasing records from the FBI’s investigative file,” AP reported:
It seeks a response from Patel within three days confirming that he will comply with the demand, and warns that any further effort to publicize the files will result in legal action.
“The Congressman has never been accused of wrongdoing in that matter and your attempt to release the file is a transparent attempt to smear him and undermine his campaign for Governor of California,” said the cease-and-desist letter from Swalwell’s attorneys, Sean Hecker and Norm Eisen. “Your actions threaten to expose you, others at the FBI, and the FBI itself to significant legal liability. Indeed, disclosure of the investigative file would violate federal law in several respects.”
A 2020 Axios report on Fang detailed just how deeply she penetrated Democratic political territory. She “targeted up-and-coming local politicians in the Bay Area and across the country who had the potential to make it big on the national stage,” the website reported:
Through campaign fundraising, extensive networking, personal charisma, and romantic or sexual relationships with at least two Midwestern mayors, Fang was able to gain proximity to political power, according to current and former U.S. intelligence officials and one former elected official.
Even though U.S. officials do not believe Fang received or passed on classified information, the case “was a big deal, because there were some really, really sensitive people that were caught up” in the intelligence network, a current senior U.S. intelligence official said.
But then she cozied up to Swalwell. Despite being a Chinese national, she helped raise money for his 2014 re-election campaign.
As well, Axios revealed, “Fang helped place at least one intern in Swalwell’s office, according to those same two people, and interacted with Swalwell at multiple events over the course of several years.”
The nature of Fang’s personal relationship with the married father of three kids is not clear.
