ITALY PERSPECTIVE

ANSA headlines with the Italian verb 'silura' -- to torpedo. In Italian, 'silurare' is more violent than 'licenziare' (to fire): it evokes an act of war, not an administrative decision. ANSA immediately mentions the Epstein case and specifies Bondi was torpedoed over her handling of 'the most delicate dossiers.' The word 'delicati' is loaded in Italian -- it implies these files touched powerful people. Italy, accustomed to its own politico-judicial sagas (Berlusconi is the inevitable reference), reads Bondi's firing through a familiar lens: political power that weaponizes justice, then justice that fails to protect those who serve it. After Kristi Noem, Bondi is the second woman from Trump's cabinet to fall in weeks. The Italian parallel with Silvio Berlusconi, who alternated between appointing allied prosecutors and disavowing them, provides a direct mirror. Rome doesn't say it explicitly -- but the parallel is obvious to its readers.