President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he was ousting Pam Bondi as attorney general, saying her chief deputy, Todd Blanche, will temporarily step into the role. Trump announced the decision on social media,

President Trump has fired U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi. The president said on Thursday that Bondi would be moved to a "much needed and important new job in the private sector."

Ms. Bondi’s critics inside and outside the administration say she has made unforced errors that have turned the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files into a political crisis.

President Trump fired Pam Bondi as Attorney General and said she would take a role in the private sector. NBC News’ Kelly O’Donnell reports.

Democrats issued a warning to Bondi about the hearing after Trump said Bondiwould be leaving her role as attorney general.

In the latest firing of Trump during his second administration, Pam Bondi on April 2 was ousted as U.S. attorney general.

Pam Bondi did almost everything Donald Trump asked. It wasn’t enough. Bondi’s ouster as attorney general Thursday continued a string of unceremonious departures for the occupants of Trump’s most perilous Cabinet post.

President Donald Trump said Thursday Pam Bondi is out as his attorney general. Trump in a social media post named Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as the acting attorney general, though three people familiar with the matter have said he has privately discussed Lee Zeldin,