The U.S. Department of Justice seems to be doing some redecorating.
Within hours of her firing, former Attorney General Pam Bondi’s portrait was removed from the walls of Justice Department offices, where it hung near photos of the president and vice president.
Images circulating online show the portrait face up in a trash can, according to MS Now.
President Donald Trump announced Bondi’s firing as attorney general on April 2 after months of scrutiny over the DOJ’s handling of files related to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking investigation. Bondi was also criticized for the large-scale firings and investigations into the president’s rivals during her time.
President Donald Trump interacts with then U.S. General Attorney Pam Bondi. (Photo by Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)Getty Images
This isn’t the first time portraits in the DOJ have been a topic of conversation when it comes to Bondi.
At the beginning of her term last year, Bondi, a former Florida attorney general, said she personally removed President Joe Biden’s, Vice President Kamala Harris’ and Attorney General Merrick Garland’s portraits from an area of the Department of Justice’s offices.
“I personally took all three photos down,” she told Fox News. “I put them in front of someone who said to me, ‘Oh well, maintenance is really slow here. I said, ‘Well it took me about 30 seconds to get them off the wall.’”
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