U.S. President Donald Trump reacts as he departs for National Harbor to address the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) annual meeting, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 22, 2025. REUTERS/Craig Hudson
Speaking out days after President Donald Trump fired him from his position as a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission, Alvaro Bedoya warned Thursday that the country is headed for “total chaos” – and offered a hint at what could have laid the groundwork to his ouster.
Bedoya, who began serving as an FTC commissioner in May 2022, told CNN’s Erin Burnett that his firing two days earlier came without any reason to justify the decision.
“None whatsoever,” Bedoya said in an interview on Thursday. “And that's why I’m confident that this was illegal because the law says – and the Supreme Court has ratified – this needs to be done for cause it can't just be because the president doesn't like what I think. It has to be done for inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance, and they allege none of those things.”
The now-former FTC commissioner added that while he doesn’t “want to speculate” about an ulterior motive behind his termination, he told Burnett that his last public statement before his firing was one that called out billionaire CEO Jeff Bezos for his treatment of warehouse workers.
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“And I will note after sending, I think, roughly a little under $30 million towards the president, his inauguration, and the First Lady in a sweetheart deal cut with Amazon, guess who has been nominated to fill the head of Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA?” he asked. “An Amazon executive. And so I don't think it is wrong to worry that we're headed to a world of corruption and corporate handouts headed toward the FTC.”
Bedoya appeared undeterred by the Trump administration’s pledge to fight his legal challenge to the Supreme Court.
“I’ll see them there,” Bedoya said. He concluded that what happens next “is total chaos.”
“No one has any idea, Erin, what's going to happen to this case, because this has never happened before,” Bedoya told the CNN host. “Will it go away? Will it stay? I don't know, but if you ask ‘who it helps to try to fire me’…I think it’s the kind of billionaires who were behind the president’s shoulder at the inauguration.”
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