Trump to Bondi: "You're Fired," Plus a New Theory on Who May Have Leaked Bryon Noem Photos

Bondy gets the boop. The attorney general is headed to the private sector, but why now and who will replace her?

I've got the latest on the most recent Trump cabinet member to hear those famous words, you're fired.

Plus, more drama and intrigue surrounding Christy Nome's husband. A new theory on the leaker of those wild selfies.

Those stories and more today, Friday, April 3rd, I'm Caitlin Becker, and this is the New York Postcast.

By now, you've heard President Trump has fired attorney general Pam Bondy confirming the move in a truth social post that read,

we love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector to be announced at a date in the near future,

and our deputy attorney general and a very talented respected legal mind Todd Blanch will step into serve as acting attorney general.

The president reportedly broke the news to Bondy in person on Wednesday.

The very same day, she accompanied Trump to the Supreme Court and was in attendance for his address to the nation updating Americans on the war in Iran.

After the news became official, the now former AG posted on X quote,

over the next month, I will be working tirelessly to transition the office of attorney general to the amazing Todd Blanch,

before moving to an important private sector role I'm thrilled about and where I will continue fighting for President Trump and this administration.

Now Trump had previously expressed frustration with Bondy's lack of aggressiveness in prosecuting his foes, such as former FBI director James Comey,

as well as the Department of Justice's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

I asked the post political reporter Ryan King about why Bondy was let go now, and who may take charge of the DOJ permanently.

President Trump didn't publicly give a specific reason why he decided to fire him, Bondy, but this was a long time coming.

We have heard for months from people inside the White House and Republicans in Congress that they had a lot of frustrations with her performance as he had of the Justice Department.

And one of the big issues of course was her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein situation.

President Trump himself was personally frustrated with Bondy for the Justice Department not prosecuting some of his political foes, such as James Comey,

and others more quickly and some of those prosecutions we know of course later fell through.

There were a lot of complaints against Bondy and there are people, very prominent people within Trump's orbit, privately lobbying him to get rid of her.

Now in terms of who replaces her, we've heard rumors from around the White House staffs.

The president is looking closely at Lee Zeldin, he's the EPA administrator, but there are a lot of other names that have been float around sort of in the beltway, including Senator Mike Lee,

Senator Eric Schmidt.

For me, Dylan, there's been a handful of names that have been suggested.

And so ultimately we'll see, but for the time being, the deputy attorney general Todd Blanch is going to take the reins for the interim while President Trump decides on a permanent replacement for Bondy.

New York City Congresswoman and lefty firebrand Alexandria Ocasio Cortez has declared she will no longer support any military aid to Israel.

Even for defense purposes after facing intense pressure from the far left.

While AOC has been critical of sending arms to the pivotal US ally, she previously backed legislation to replenish Israel's iron dome missile defense system.

The squad member posted to X quote,

I will not support Congress sending more taxpayer dollars and military aid to a government that consistently ignores international law and US law.

She added that Israel is perfectly capable of funding the iron dome system themselves.

AOC's apparent cave to the farthest left comes after she was the target of critics like young Turks pundit Anna Kasparian, as well as hecklers in the audience of some of her own town hall meetings.

A new report out of Iran suggests the terror regime is so desperate to rebuild its military that it's recruiting children, some as young as 12 years old to take up machine guns and carry out security checks.

A less diplomatic term one could use might be cannon fodder.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claims these kids are volunteers who want to stand up to in their words the global bully, meaning the US.

An IRGC official actually said, and I quote,

considering the ages of those requesting to join we have now lowered the minimum age to 12 years old because children aged 12 to 13 want to be involved.

I don't even know what to say to that kind of absurd rationale.

In addition to the so-called security checks, Iranian state media says these middle school aged soldiers are also tasked with helping victims of strikes, cooking food and distributing items needed by fire crews.

This recruitment drive is just the latest Iranian violation of international law. It's considered a war crime to recruit children under 15, which even that is far too young.

But an official with human rights watch put it succinctly, quote,

what this boils down to is that Iranian authorities are apparently willing to risk children's lives for some extra manpower.

And unfortunately the move seems to be nothing new in Iran.

During the 2022 protests, a picture circulated on social media showing children wearing helmets and carrying riot shields.

The regime has been accused of hiring children as young as 13 to carry out attacks on Israeli targets in Europe and recruited Afghan migrant children to fight in Syria.

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Please check out my new interview series. We'll do it live.

Each Thursday I sit down with the most influential people in America where a no spin chat, no script, anything good happened.

You can find we'll do it live on Bill O'Reilly.com, YouTube or wherever you download your podcasts.

History is complicated. The story of human progress is long, messy, and riddled with controversy's big and small.

Unconflicted, we dive headfirst into history's most infamous events and contentious figures.

We try to entangle the good from the bad, the fact from the fiction, and the monsters from the misunderstood.

From boundary shifting conflicts like the partition of India, or the Soviet Afghan war, to enigmatic personalities like the Byzantine Empress Theodora, or the depraved Marquis de Sof.

There's no shortage of fascinating topics to investigate on conflicted.

So if you love history, or just enjoy a good story, go and check out conflicted wherever you get your podcasts.

Another day, another wild turn in the Christian Brian Nomsaga.

The post-head source is suggesting that maybe Christy and her rumored boyfriend Corey Lewandowski might have been the ones to out Brian's fetish to make her a more sympathetic character like maybe even for presidential run.

But a reporter at Axios has another source. This reporter, Mark Caputo, says back in February, his source tipped him off to what he called a weird lead about Brian coming from a sex worker, one possibly in the US illegally.

So you can see kind of how this unfolds, right? This potentially illegal migrant sex worker claimed that Brian used their services online.

Now, Caputo didn't pursue the lead because he couldn't get an interview with the accuser, so he couldn't confirm the allegations at the time.

And let's get serious here. This story is so weird and wild. You would need to be a million percent sure before going public with something like this.

Meanwhile, we're learning more about one of the fetish models who allegedly interacted with Mr. Christy Nome. I asked our deputy managing editor Michael's any about that.

All right, so you're going to have to bear with me here because this one is uncharted territory for me, probably for a lot of you as well.

So we have this, this only fans cam model who's coming forward by the name of Lydia Love.

She is, according to our reporting, one of the big figures within this so-called bimbo vacation sort of fetish world.

And she's saying that Brian Nome was one of her biggest clients that he was paying her $25 a minute for 10 minute sessions where she would humiliate him.

And humiliate him at his request and dominate him. She also made a lot of other claims about what his predilections were that sort of matched with the photos that were revealed in this bombshell Daily Mail report.

But that said, I will caution she did not have any transcripts. She did not.

She had three shots and she said that she was only coming forward because he had already been outed and she was just sort of wanting to share what she saw from this story.

I also asked Michael about what some security official said about dropping the ball in vetting Christy Nome for a position as DHS secretary.

Yeah, so we've got a few security experts who've spoken to us about the security vetting that secretary Christy Nome would have had to go through and her family would have had to go through in order to take this cabinet level position where she was in charge of defending the homeland.

I can personally attest to my college roommate interviewed for a job with the US Navy's weapons development program. And I was I was actually given a questionnaire as like a 19 year old.

A lot of experts are saying that this double life that Brian Nome was living was something that probably should have come out in the vetting because it made him vulnerable to blackmail.

They caution that it's not the behavior itself or the fetish itself that is is a concern, but it's the behavior of posting it sharing it with with anonymous people online, which really could be used by a hostile actor for leverage.

And they're raising questions about why this was not previously caught and addressed.

The Artemis 2 mission to the moon this week has been a pretty big story around here, and we've made special attention to that high-tech toilet in the Orion capsule.

Well, just hours after the rocket lifted off, the crew of three men and one woman reported that the latrine wasn't latrining, specifically the fan and the toilet jammed.

NASA officials explained the issue and confirmed that solid waste wasn't a problem.

The toilet could by the grace of God still handle that. It was liquid waste that was the issue. I know, it's gross.

We can literally send a man to the moon, but the porcelain throne is buffuddling to even the smartest of minds out there.

The ground crew scrambled to fight away to unjam the fan on picture and scenes from Apollo 13 here. And several hours later, it was reportedly fixed.

In the meantime, the astronauts were forced to employ a contingency plan for, quote, waste management capabilities.

If you are listening to this Friday morning, the astronauts are probably asleep right now. They ended their systems testing Thursday night and left Earth's orbit beginning the trek to the moon.

They should get there and fly by the lunar service on Monday before being slingshot back home.

And finally, just two days after President Trump's $400 million White House ballroom construction was put on ice by a federal judge,

the National Capital Planning Commission voted to approve the big beautiful ballrooms design.

The approval process was pretty snappy according to critics who believe the NCPC rushed through it.

The yes votes came despite a legally mandated public comment period where members of the public cement requests for changes in the plans.

In this instance, there was a request to reduce the size of the structure. But Chairman Will Scharf, who is also a Trump administration staff secretary, defended the commission's work,

he argues that the commission could have approved the project without any public input.

Now, this development, the NCPC's approval, doesn't mean construction is going to immediately ramp up again.

It is no bearing on the ruling of Judge Richard Leon this week, which stopped construction pending congressional approval.

This is part of the process that just concerns the planning.

Now, that said, Scharf said ahead of Thursday's vote that the judge's order was stayed for two weeks pending an appeal by the administration.

Judge like Rome wasn't built in a day erecting a ginormous ballroom in the east wing of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue will also take some time.

And clearly, many, many, many bureaucratic coups.

Okay, my friends, as we head out for the weekend, I went to wish all of you happy holidays, whatever holiday you may be celebrating this week.

And in that spirit, I would be ever so grateful if you'd like and follow the New York Postcast.

Think of it like a little gift for me and the whole Postcast team. A free gift at that can't beat it.

Thank you very much.