{"id":242651,"date":"2026-05-27T15:28:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/pam-bondi-diagnosed-with-thyroid-cancer-appointed-to-ai-committee-by-trump\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T15:28:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:28:46","slug":"pam-bondi-diagnosed-with-thyroid-cancer-appointed-to-ai-committee-by-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/pam-bondi-diagnosed-with-thyroid-cancer-appointed-to-ai-committee-by-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Pam Bondi Diagnosed With Thyroid Cancer, Appointed to AI Committee by Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-2219481\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- Franchise logo or primary category --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- subheader --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"tpd-post-thumbnail-container caption_belowImage credit_onImage\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit-text\">Credit: Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \/post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/pam-bondi\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Pam Bondi<\/strong><\/a> has thyroid cancer, and is also taking on a new role.<\/p>\n<p>The 60-year-old former Attorney General was diagnosed with the disease following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/donald-trump\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Donald Trump<\/strong><\/a> firing her from the role in April.<\/p>\n<p>She confirmed the news to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/27\/politics\/former-attorney-general-pam-bondi-diagnosed-thyroid-cancer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>, saying she is now undergoing treatment, and just had surgery a few weeks ago \u201cdoing well, though.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the diagnosis, she is still scheduled to testify in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/jeffrey-epstein\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/strong><\/a> investigation in front of the House Oversight Committee on Friday (May 29).<\/p>\n<p>In addition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/05\/27\/pam-bondi-white-house-ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Axios<\/a> reports that <strong>Trump<\/strong> has appointed her to an advisory committee focused on AI policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Pam<\/strong> has been an enormously valuable asset to the president\u2019s team, and I\u2019m thrilled for her and for all of us that she\u2019s going to remain involved in confronting some of the most important issues the administration faces,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/jd-vance\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">JD Vance<\/strong><\/a> said to CNN in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources close to\u00a0the Attorney General, the President broke the news to her of her firing in four words as they were headed to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/policy\/i-think-its-time-the-inside-story-of-pam-bondis-ouster-c16167d0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em>\u00a0reported that\u00a0<strong>Trump<\/strong>\u00a0signaled to\u00a0<strong>Bondi<\/strong>\u00a0she was fired by telling her, \u201cI think it\u2019s time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in 2026,\u00a0<strong>Pam Bondi<\/strong>\u00a0was subpoenaed to answer questions regarding the Department of Justice\u2019s investigation into<strong>\u00a0Epstein<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>She sent a letter claiming all of the Epstein Files\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/02\/15\/attorney-general-pam-bondi-claims-all-epstein-files-documents-now-released-publishes-list-of-government-officials-politically-exposed-persons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">were released in February.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">Posted To:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/ai\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/donald-trump\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/pam-bondi\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pam Bondi<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/politics\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Politics<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/27\/pam-bondi-diagnosed-with-thyroid-cancer-appointed-to-ai-committee-by-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: Getty Pam Bondi has thyroid cancer, and is also taking on a new role. The 60-year-old former Attorney General was diagnosed with the disease following Donald Trump firing her from the role in April. She confirmed the news to CNN, saying she is now undergoing treatment, and just had surgery a few weeks ago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-242651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}