DOJ Leader Removed After Bondi Saw Front Office Biden Portrait (1)

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Source: Bloomberg Law

April 10, 2025, 3:53 PM EDT; Updated: April 10, 2025, 4:11 PM EDT

DOJ Leader Removed After Bondi Saw Front Office Biden Portrait (1)

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* Move came after Bondi saw Biden, Harris portraits in NSD office
* Official was reassigned to prior position inside division

The Justice Department removed the acting national security head from his post hours after Attorney General Pam Bondi saw a portrait of former President Joe Biden continuing to hang in the division’s front office, according to people familiar with the situation.

Bondi took the step during the week of Feb. 10, just weeks after Devin DeBacker was elevated to serve as the acting chief of the national security division. DeBacker, a former associate White House counsel during the first Trump administration, was also in line to be the division’s permanent No. 2 official. He was reassigned to his prior role as chief of the foreign investment review section.

His demotion came the same day Bondi saw the portraits of Biden, former Vice President Kamala Harris, and Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland still hanging, the people familiar with the situation said.

Bondi previously said she personally took the portraits down after first entering the national security division’s front office at DOJ headquarters. But the link between the portraits and DeBacker’s reassignment hasn’t previously been reported.

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The Justice Department removed the acting national security head from his post hours after Attorney General Pam Bondi saw a portrait of former President Joe Biden continuing to hang in the division’s front office.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/white-collar-and-criminal-law/doj-leader-removed-after-bondi-saw-front-office-biden-portrait

April 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM

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[CurtEastPoint]

1. JFC if that entire crew is not the pettiest, nastiest, most hateful and grudge bearing bunch of whiny dildos

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. I disagree. Dildos perform a valuable function. NT

[Irish_Dem]

6. And they are getting more and more out of control.

It is foolish to be making so many enemies and putting themselves at risk
when they have so much power and control.

[Initech]

24. The fucking asshole just replaced Obama's portrait with that stupid fucking picture of him getting shot.

[SheltieLover]

2. Is this legal? I mean, it's not as if he were caught kissing pootin's ass...

[Irish_Dem]

4. She is as crazy as Trump. Does she drink or do drugs?

[erronis]

9. Sometimes crazy just comes with the genes.

Drugs, etc. are additional problems. But as Churchill might have told Lady Astor:

"And you, Lady Astor, are ugly. As for my condition, it will pass by the morning. You, however, will still be ugly.

[dweller]

5. What a

F’n Nazi
🤬



✌🏻

[BootinUp]

7. A government of immature brats. Nt

[republianmushroom]

8. Now, Merrick the Meek, I would considered this "POLITICAL".

[sinkingfeeling]

10. Can you say "fascist"?

[Initech]

11. OMFG!!! Fuck this administration! May they all rot in hell!

[NoMoreRepugs]

12. What a piece of crap. She's actually gotten worse than when she was in Florida

doing her worst.

[mdbl]

13. Margaret Atwood couldn't have written something better than these weirdos

like Bondi, Noem, etc

[wordstroken]

14. Unbelievable!!!

[struggle4progress]

15. She sold her soul for a small campaign contribution years ago

[chowder66]

16. I doubt she had one to sell.

[List left]

17. Portrait of former president hanging in the oval office.

George Washington's portrait is still hanging in the oval office. Fire Trump!

[Old Testament Libera]

18. Having a portrait of Trump is going to be mandatory

Just like Uncle Joe Stalin, Mao and Hitler. That's where we are going

[electricmonk]

23. I was just joking with my mom the other day about that

After reading about his planned military parade I said he's going to order everyone to hang his photo up like his idol Kim Jong Un next.

[jls4561]

19. I predict Bondi's portrait will be hanging in an DOJ building after the Fatass45 administration is gone.

It will be in a urinal.

[hadEnuf]

20. Can you just imagine working in a toilet like that?

Under a psycho bitch like Bondi?

It would be intolerable. All they want to do is fire people and stick it up everyone's ass. It's like a nasty 13 year old bully being made the principal of their own school.

We need a nationwide strike. Too bad we don't have leadership like that.

[Bayard]

21. This entire administration must have the most fragile egos on the planet

They feel threatened and act out constantly.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

22. Bunch of petty assholes