US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s administration appeared to be unravelling as his attorney general and the US Army’s top uniformed officer were both sacked on Thursday.

The administration is still mired in controversy over the handling of files relating to the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking investigation and the war in Iran that has sent the global economy into meltdown.

President Trump said on Thursday that Attorney General Pam Bondi will be leaving for an “important new job in the private sector.”

President Trump named deputy attorney general Todd Blanche, one of his former personal lawyers, as the acting attorney general.

Ms Bondi called the job “the honour of a lifetime” and that she would be working to transition the position to Mr Blanche.

Ms Bondi was part of the conspiracy-theory machine which suggested in a 2025 Fox News Channel interview that Mr Epstein’s “client list” was sitting on her desk for review.

The department later said no such document exists.

Despite promises that more files on the case were going to become public, the Justice Department in July said no more would be released. This prompted Congress to pass a Bill to force the agency to do so.

Jess Michaels, an Epstein survivor, said that she thought Ms Bondi had the “opportunity to be a hero and to really do right by survivors of sexual violence and trafficking, and she chose not to.”

California’s Democratic Senator Adam Schiff said: “Pam Bondi oversaw an unprecedented weaponisation of the Justice Department that brought our nation’s rule of law to its knees.”

Ms Bondi was sacked on the same day US Army Chief of Staff General Randy George was ousted along with two other generals by Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth.

No reason was given for any of the sackings that took place as the US is waging an illegal and unprovoked war, alongside Israel, on Iran.

A statement from the Pentagon said that General George will be retiring “effective immediately.”

General George has held the post of army chief of staff since August 2023 under the Biden administration.

The sacking is the latest of over a dozen firings of top generals and admirals by Mr Hegseth since he took office last year.

Mr Hegseth also has ousted Army General David Hodne and Army Major General William Green, according to a Pentagon source.

General Christopher LaNeve, Mr Hegseth’s senior military assistant, will be stepping in as acting army chief of staff, the Pentagon said.