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Topics: News, US News, Donald Trump, Politics
Kit Roberts
Topics: News, US News, Donald Trump, Politics
With the sacking of Pam Bondi as the attorney general, Donald Trump is once again reshuffling his administration.
Trump's administration has gone through a lot of people since he first took office, and the list has continued to grow in his second term.
Bondi's departure from the post of attorney general after her handling of the Epstein files was critcized is just the latest sacking that Trump has carried out.
Bondi has responded to being ousted from the post, taking to social media to write: "Leading President Trump's historic and highly successful efforts to make America safer and more secure has been the honor of a lifetime."
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She went on to describe her stint as attorney general as 'the most consequential first year of the Department of Justice in American history.'
The former attorney general is far from the first person to have been given the boot by Trump, and here are the others.
Noem was another recent departure from Trump's cabinet prior to Bondi, being sacked from the Department of Homeland Security, where she was tasked with Trump's election promise of deportations.
Her position overseeing ICE operations, including the highly controversial and criticized crackdowns in Minnesota, saw Noem become a particularly cricized figure in Trump's second administration.
This was only heightened by Noem's responses to the killing of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by ICE agents during the Minnesota operation.
In 2017, Trump fired Comey as the director of the FBI, in a move which came after a complicated series of political challenges.
These included the scandal around Hilary Clinton's emails, as well as alleged connections of the Trump presidential campaign to Russia.
Trump targeted Comey over his handling of Clinton's emails, claim that he 'was not able to effectively lead the bureau', while Trump's political opponents claimed that Comey's dismissal was an attempt to stop the FBI investigation into the Russia connections.
Sessions was another attorney general to be ousted by Trump.
His departure was a forced resignation, and came after Sessions recused himself from an enquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 that the Justice Department was carrying out.
Trump criticized Sessions over this decision, ultimately leading to Sessions' departure.
Tillerson worked in Trump's first presidency as secretary of state.
His dismissal came after disagreements over diplomacy with states such as North Korea and Trump's position on the Iran nuclear agreement.
Tillerson was sacked after returning from a trip to Africa.
Foreign policy hawk John Bolton served as Trump's national security adviser in his first term.
Himself a hardliner whose positions include that international law undermines US sovereignty, Bolton left his post following 'disagreements' with Trump.
While Trump said he had fired Bolton, Bolton did not agree with this account and claimed that he had instead offered his resignation.
Scaramucci had a short but turbulent stint as the director of White House communications, spending only 11 days in the post.
During his time in the role Scaramucci became known for a bullish approach to communications.