Bondi Dismisses DOJ Staffer After Disturbing Video Surfaces
Attorney General Pam Bondi on Friday fired DOJ paralegal Elizabeth Baxter after she flipped off a National Guard member on her way to work.
Baxter, who worked in the environmental division, was stationed in the same building as Sean Charles Dunn — another paralegal recently dismissed for allegedly throwing a Subway sandwich at a Border Protection officer, the New York Post reported.
The DC grand jury, however, declined to file charges against Dunn, rebuking the Trump Justice Dept.
Bondi said Baxter bragged to a DOJ security guard upon arriving at the department’s “4CON” building in Washington’s NoMa district on Aug. 18 that she had just made the gesture at a guardsman outside Metro Center, adding: “F–k the National Guard.”
At 12:18 p.m. the same day, DOJ security cameras recorded Baxter flipping off a National Guard member and shouting, “F–k you!”
A week later, on Aug. 25, she again told a DOJ security guard she hated the Guard and had told them to “F–k off!”
“Today, I took action to terminate a DOJ employee for inappropriate conduct towards National Guard service members in DC” Bondi told The Post.
“This DOJ remains committed to defending President Trump’s agenda and fighting to make America safe again. If you oppose our mission and disrespect law enforcement — you will NO LONGER work at DOJ,” Bondi added.
🚨 DOJ CLEAN-UP 🚨@AGPamBondi just FIRED a Justice Department employee who mocked & disrespected National Guard soldiers in D.C.
— Rod D. Martin (@RodDMartin) September 1, 2025
Her message is clear: If you oppose the mission & disrespect law enforcement, you will NO LONGER work at DOJ.
ENOUGH
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DOJ security footage captured Baxter reenacting for a security guard how she flipped off a National Guard member, according to a photo obtained by The Post.
After an investigation involving multiple witnesses, Bondi issued Baxter a termination letter last week stating, “You are removed from your position of Paralegal Specialist, GS-0950-11, Environmental Defense Section, Environment and Natural Resources Division, and from the federal service, effective immediately.”
The episode follows new charges against Sean Charles Dunn, 37, over an Aug. 10 incident in D.C.’s U Street corridor. Dunn, who worked in the DOJ criminal division’s international affairs section, was arrested after hurling a Subway sandwich and shouting abuse at federal officers deployed under President Trump’s crime crackdown.
“F—k you! You f—king fascists! Why are you here? I don’t want you in my city!” Dunn reportedly shouted at a group of federal officers before video showed him hurling his salami sandwich at one of them.
“This is an example of the Deep State we have been up against for seven months as we work to refocus DOJ,” Bondi tweeted after firing Dunn. “You will NOT work in this administration while disrespecting our government and law enforcement.”
After a grand jury declined to indict Dunn on felony assault, prosecutors this week charged him with misdemeanor assault, which carries up to a year in jail.
The Trump administration, meanwhile, cut more than 500 additional jobs at Voice of America last week, delivering what could be a fatal blow to the taxpayer-supported U.S. government media outlet that has been repeatedly hit by funding cuts.
Over vehement objections from Democrats, Kari Lake, acting CEO of VOA’s parent company, the U.S. Agency for Global Media, announced the layoffs on Friday in a social media post, The Washington Times reported.
“We are conducting this (reduction in force) at the President’s direction to help reduce the federal bureaucracy, improve agency service and save the American people more of their hard-earned money,” Lake wrote.
“USAGM will continue to fulfill its statutory mission after this RIF — and will likely improve its ability to function and provide the truth to people across the world who live under murderous communist governments and other tyrannical regimes,” she added.
ANNOUNCEMENT—
— Kari Lake (@KariLake) August 30, 2025
U.S. Agency for Global Media Eliminates 532 Government Positions
Washington, D.C. – Tonight, the U.S. Agency for Global Media initiated what is known as a reduction in force, or RIF, of a large number of its full-time federal employees. We are conducting this RIF at… pic.twitter.com/LWeO9w0RNQ
Lake said 532 full-time VOA positions were eliminated.
