Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch said he did not know why Pam Bondy was removed.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche held his first press conference since President Donald Trump fired Pam Bondi last week, saying he did not know why Bondi was fired. But he said he would love to be the permanent attorney general if the president decides; “It would be an honor,” he said. Pam Bondi was supposed to remain in her post for the transition period, but Todd Blanch’s press conference indicated that Bondi may already be leaving her post – without any formality. “Nobody except President Trump has any idea why the attorney general is no longer the attorney general and I’m the acting attorney general,” Blanch said.“I don’t spend every day trying to guess what President Trump or anyone else is thinking. “I work every day on doing whatever needs to be done to execute the President’s agenda and priorities. I’m tired of people in the media who say why President Trump did or didn’t do something, because only President Trump knows that,” Blanch said at a news conference to outline anti-fraud plans.““If President Trump chooses to retain me as acting DAG, it’s an honor. If he chooses to nominate me, it’s an honor. If he chooses to nominate someone else and I go back as DAG, it’s an honor,” Blanch said. “If he chooses to nominate someone else and asks me to do something else, I’ll say, ‘Thank you very much. I love you, sir.'”It is believed that Bondi was fired because Trump was unhappy with the way the Epstein files were handled by the Justice Department. Trump wanted the department to attack his enemies more aggressively. Blanche previously said in an interview with Fox that she had never heard from the president until today that Bondi was fired because of the Epstein files. “The Epstein files have been a saga that’s been going on for the last year. And what happened when the President signed the Transparency Act is that the Department of Justice has now released all the files in relation to the Epstein saga,” said Blanch.