Ione Wells
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3 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 17 Aug
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to essentially prosecute some of his political opponents and foes, including, for example, the former director of the FBI, James Comey, chair of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell.
But I think he's been frustrated at the fact that some of these investigations or prosecutions haven't made the progress that he hoped.
And she potentially is the head of that department, is essentially the one that he might bear responsible for that.
But she is a close ally of him.
And so in that sense, I think it is surprising to some people.
And certainly both their statements about her firing read as if there was nothing wrong.
She says she's thrilled to be moving on to a new job.
He said that she'd been doing a tremendous job at getting crime down and was a loyal friend and patriot.
So this does seem to have come somewhat out of the blue today.
And I think suggests a sort of discontent really at the heart of the Trump administration, because this is the second cabinet secretary that Mr. Trump has fired in less than a month.
Indeed.
I mean, what can we expect next then?
Well, in the interim, she will be replaced temporarily by her deputy, Todd Blanche, who was formerly Donald Trump's personal lawyer.
There will then be a process to formally nominate a more permanent replacement who will have to be sworn in by the Senate in a formal process.
But I think it's interesting because Todd Blanche, who will be taking on that role temporarily, is somebody who...
is very close to Donald Trump as well, but also was also very publicly associated with the Epstein files, even had been involved with some of the press around this case.
So I think he's not exactly somebody who will necessarily put out that fire that the Department of Justice was battling.
Some cross-party lawmakers here in the US, but also survivors of Epstein, have already said that they want whoever takes her place to really prioritise investigations and prosecutions around the Epstein files to get people justice.
Ione Wells in Washington.
In the air, at sea and on land, we are assessing which forces are necessary.
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