Given her almost cartoonish expressions of support for Trump, why was Pam Bondi fired as attorney general? She had been aware that there were people who had Trump’s ear who had been pushing for her ouster but she thought that she could weather the storm or that at least he would give her a graceful way to exist, say over the next few months. But as is the case with Trump, loyalty for him is a one-way street, and he summarily fired her yesterday.

The New York Times reports that her main problem was that she had failed to secure convictions against people that Trump had wanted prosecuted, even though the cases against them were weak, so that even grand juries, usually so accommodating of prosector’s request to return indictments, refused to go along. But Trump doesn’t care if the people he appoints are given impossible tasks. For him, a failure is a failure, and even a sign of disloyalty to him.

Mr. Trump has been particularly angry about the Justice Department’s failure to win cases involving his political opponents, including against the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey and the New York attorney general, Letitia James.
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In recent weeks, Ms. Bondi tried to shore up her position by moving more aggressively against investigative targets singled out by Mr. Trump, including the former Obama official John O. Brennan and a former White House aide, Cassidy Hutchinson, whom the president has accused of lying about his actions on Jan. 6, 2021, according to officials briefed on the effort.

Trump is also supposedly unhappy with Lori Chavez-DeRemer, the labor secretary, with rumors swirling that she drinks on the job and has been having an affair with a subordinate, and covering personal travel with official reasons.

Chavez-DeRemer has been under investigation by the Labor Department’s inspector general for allegations that include drinking alcohol while working and having an affair with a security officer. In addition, the inspector general is probing whether her staffers inappropriately used official events as a way to facilitate her personal travel.

Other people rumored to be on the chopping block are director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, commerce secretary Howard Lutnick and FBI director Kash Patel.

The fact the the only people whom Trump has fired so far have been women, even though the incompetence is widespread, has aroused comment.

Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari of Arizona drew a contrast with Hegseth, who was found by a Pentagon watchdog to have put US service members at risk when he used the Signal messaging app, and the FBI director, Kash Patel, whose string of errors include prematurely announcing the arrest of the wrong suspect in the Charlie Kirk murder investigation.

Ansari wrote on X: “Noem and Bondi were both awful and committed egregious, impeachable offenses. But isn’t it … interesting … that it’s just the women getting fired? Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth each have a laundry list of scandals under their belts and should be fired as well. Hmmmm.”

Former Republican officials also weighed in. Bill Kristol, who served in the Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush administrations, posted: “Bondi was awful, but no worse than Patel. Noem was terrible, but no worse than Hegseth. Funny that it’s only the women who get fired.”

Trump may hold off on some of the firings to avoid giving the impression of an administration in turmoil and chaos, though one could very well argue that that ship sailed a long time ago, helmed by the chaos creator-in-chief.