MS NOW aired a photo of former Attorney General Pam Bondi’s portrait unceremoniously dumped in the trash on Friday, one day after her firing by President Donald Trump.

“If you want a sense of just how quickly things are moving at the DOJ, MS NOW has new reporting that Bondi’s portrait has already been taken down, and you see it there thrown in the garbage!” reported Chris Jansing on Friday.

Jansing tossed to reporter Ken Dilanian, asking, “This portrait, does it signal something wide about a feeling within DOJ right now?”

“I think it does, Chris. Look, there’s a lot of anger, especially among the career workforce, about Pam Bondi and what she did to change the Justice Department, more so than any attorney general in modern history,” Dilanian said.

“And, you know, those portraits are up all over the place. They’re in every major office. Her portrait would be hung next to that of the president and the vice president. And we had another picture that we weren’t able to publish based on the ground rules that showed her portrait taken down from the wall. And then this one shows it thrown in the trash,” Dilanian said, continuing.

And a lot of people that we talked to have not forgotten an episode that Pam Bondi celebrated at the beginning of her tenure, when she told the story in interviews about walking into the National Security division of the Justice Department and seeing the portraits of Attorney General Merrick Garland and President [Joe] Biden and Vice President [Kamala] Harris still on the wall there. And she was outraged by that. And she said that she took them down herself, and she sort of told that story as an example to offer, to suggest that the career workforce at DOJ is more sympathetic to Democrats than Republicans. The reality is those people worked in the first Trump administration loyally and ably and without incident. But Pam Bondi fired a lot of them and forced many others out. And in that case, she forced out and demoted the acting head of the National Security division over that portrait incident. This was a well respected nonpartisan figure.

Dilanian added, “So there’s a lot of anger about episodes like that amid all of the other things that Pam Bondi has done with the Justice Department.”

Watch the clip above via MS NOW.

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