Pam Bondi, Top Generals Out: Trump's Thursday Night Massacre

TOP LINE

Attorney General Pam Bondi is out.   

Three top Generals, including the Army Chief of Staff, have been dismissed by the Secretary of War.

The news broke late Thursday on a long holiday weekend. 

It’s a classic Beltway move to bury bad news.

DEEP DIVE

Given her loyalty to President Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi wanted a respectful exit which she was denied. 

While violent crime statistics are way down on her watch, other factors outweighed the progress, most notably AG Bondi’s handling of the Epstein Files.  

I have always suspected it was NOT Bondi, but the White House that was behind one of the more cringeworthy episodes in February 2025. 

FREE PREVIEW 🔓️ 

Catherine Herridge Reports Is Backed By Readers Like You

Our team relies on your subscriptions. No corporations. No pressure from advertisers. We can follow the facts wherever they lead.

Please consider supporting our independent, fact based journalism. Your support makes it possible!

At that time, so-called MAGA influencers were given large, white binders labeled  “Epstein Files: Phase 1” which turned out to have no new information.  For the President’s base, it felt like an elaborate bait and switch. 

Bondi also claimed to have an Epstein client list “sitting” on her desk, as well as other promises of transparency.  But in the end, it took a bi-partisan act of Congress, the Epstein Files Transparency Act, to force the release of more than 3 million files.

After the massive records release, which would be a major accomplishment for any Justice Department, it turned out specific FBI interview summaries were held back.  Known as 302s, the 2019 records containing unsubstantiated allegations about President Trump, were not immediately posted to the DOJ website.

At the time, the Justice Department blamed a coding error.  The 2019 records were wrongly labelled as duplicates.  It could have been an honest mistake which is entirely possible when you are redacting and releasing millions of files. 

However, withholding records containing uncorroborated allegations about the President, is a terrible look.   It certainly has the appearance of a conflict of interest. 

“In 2004, I wrote the law enforcement information sharing program concept of operations,” said Morgan Wright, a veteran federal investigator who helped set up the information sharing systems at the FBI and DOJ. 

“It could be at an entry level, could be something that was done at a supervisory level when somebody's reviewing the case and they go, ‘I think it should be this instead of this or this appears to be duplicative.’ “

Wright continued, “But even then, you don't delete that. You keep that. Why? Because you never know what's linked to that. And anytime you delete something, you know what a defense attorney yells? Spoiliation.”  

Wright remains suspicious of the coding error explanation. In cases like AG Bondi’s termination, timing always matters.  

The remainder of this newsletter is for paid subscribers only.

Catherine Herridge Reports: Telling the stories we could not tell before. Where the facts have a power all their own.

✅ Whistleblower investigations that demand government accountability and get results with long overdue benefits awarded to US service members.

✅ Analysis that is fact driven and unafraid to challenge the prevailing narrative.

✅ Unlimited access to our online archive where you can read previous editions of the newsletter.