The Latest: Trump says Pam Bondi out as his attorney general, Blanche will serve as acting AG

President Donald Trump said Thursday Pam Bondi is out as his attorney general.

Trump in a social media post named Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as the acting attorney general, though three people familiar with the matter have said he has privately discussed Lee Zeldin, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, as a permanent pick.

It marks the end of a contentious tenure of a loyalist who upended the Justice Department’s culture of independence from the White House...