(CNN) — Pam Bondi has emerged from self-exile following right-wing blowback over her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and is reasserting control over the Justice Department and her role as attorney general.

Bondi moved this week to install a new co-deputy FBI director alongside Dan Bongino, who had a heated confrontation with the attorney general in July and threatened to resign over the Epstein debacle. It’s a signal, Trump administration officials say, that Bondi won the power struggle and Bongino is likely to exit.

After being a regular presence on Fox News from the White House lawn since taking office in February, Bondi went into a nearly monthlong media lockdown after the president’s MAGA-loyalist base reacted in an uproar at the Justice Department’s unsigned July 7 memo

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