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Acting attorney general: 'Nobody has any idea why' Pam Bondi was fired

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Interim Attorney General Todd Blanche insisted that he had no idea why President Donald Trump had fired former Attorney General Pam Bondi.During a Tuesday press conference, Blanche was asked to square his pledge to root out weaponization at the Department of Justice with Trump's demand that his enemies be prosecuted."You had [people in] this department who…

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