One of President Donald Trump’s most outspoken Democratic adversaries pointed out a concerning pattern among his second-term firings.
Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett called out the 79-year-old president for his gender bias on Thursday after his firing of the nation’s top prosecutor, Pam Bondi.
“Well... first it was Kristi Noem, now it’s Pam Bondi... it would be too much like right that Pete be next,” the congresswoman, 45, wrote. “I see a theme. He will throw the incompetent women under the bus a lot faster than the incompetent men.”
Bondi, 60, and Noem, 54, were the first two Cabinet members to be ousted from the second Trump administration, both fired within only weeks of each other. Both of their immediate replacements—Todd Blanche and Markwayne Mullin, respectively—are men.
“Let’s just agree that America needs a ‘do over,’” Crockett continued. “The President nominated these awful people, the Republican controlled Senate confirmed them, and well... too many people thought we should give this much power to the P---y grabbing, 6x bankruptcy filing, 34 count convicted felon bestie of Epstein.”
“WE NEED A DO OVER... but only if America would do better.”
The Daily Beast reached out to the White House, the Pentagon, the DOJ, and the DHS for comment.
Trump said Blanche, 51, was stepping in to serve as the “Acting Attorney General,” though sources told The New York Times that he has a more permanent replacement in mind.
The president has supposedly pegged Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, as the potential successor for the role.
Zeldin and Bondi were both seated in the front row during Trump’s primetime address on Wednesday night, a move which some have speculated was a harbinger of Thursday’s firing.
Aside from Bondi, the president has also been considering axing his Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, according to The Guardian.
Gabbard, 44, was also present at the address, and her passionate anti-war sentiments have reportedly rubbed the hawkish president the wrong way.
Her hesitancy to condemn Joe Kent, the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, who resigned over his opposition to Trump’s war on Iran, reportedly upset the president.
Sources told the outlet that advisers have warned the president against another high-profile firing across a short time frame without a clear successor in mind.
Bondi said in a social media post after her firing that she would be pursuing a new job in the private sector that she was “thrilled” about.
