Summary
Donald Trump has nominated Pam Bondi, Florida’s former attorney general (2011–2019) and longtime ally, as his pick for U.S. attorney general after Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration.
Bondi, known for her work combating drug trafficking and her role in Trump’s impeachment defense, will face Senate confirmation.
Her nomination has drawn praise from Republicans, including Sen. Lindsey Graham, and is seen as less controversial than Gaetz, who withdrew amid past allegations.
Bondi’s past ties to Trump, including a donation linked to Trump University investigations, have sparked scrutiny but have been denied as improper.
Jesus, I would not have thought there was a worse pick than Gaetz. Joe Arpaio maybe? Ugh.
It’s a good thing Trump isn’t on Lemmy, because if he saw that, he might actually do it
Nah Gaetz still would have been worse lol.
Pam might be a piece of shit who enforced laws that never should have been enforced but Gaetz gave hardcore drugs to child prostitutes, there is a pretty clear distinction here.
I mean, definitely better than the sleazeball pedophilic sex-trafficker who doesn’t even really have much experience. She’s fuckin’ evil, but I guess a “better” pick since they both have awful views but at least she doesn’t seem to be, you know, Matt Gaetz.
Still, if she died in a fire I wouldn’t be the least bit sad and this pick has not come much closer to any kind of threshold than the first one.
Whoa don’t repeat that too much, he would totally appoint that asshole to some position
Predictable. Maybe the Gaetz pick was just in order to make the Pam Bondi selection look halfway sane.
It’s not, mind you.
Phew, glad to see she’s also a piece of shit. Definitely more appropriate than Gaetz but come on.
Bondi vociferously supports the death penalty and its timely application, but in the fall of 2013, she persuaded Gov. Scott to postpone the execution of murderer Marshall Lee Gore – because it was scheduled the same night as a fundraising party kicking off her reelection campaign.
Yeah, she’s basically a perfect Trumpian appointee.
She was the attorney general of Florida, was Trump’s personal attorney during one of his many trials, despite the obvious ethical violations in serving as the personal attorney for a defendant while acting as chief prosecutor in a state…
…and probable Trump side-piece.
At this point every single move he makes is 100% predictable based on 1980-2000 business marketing strategies.
You mean the business marketing strategies that allowed him to bankrupt multiple companies?
Fucking called it.
https://fedia.io/m/politics@lemmy.world/t/1461647/-/comment/8284420
Wow, you must be able to tell the future if you called that Trump would pick someone horrible. Who could have guessed that? lol
I called that the Pedo was a trap. Because as openly and brazenly corrupt as Pam Bondi is, she is better than Gaetz, and now the senate GOP cant refuse her as easily.
Fortunately, she’s a lightweight and relatively incompetent…
incompetent jurist, perhaps. but her full résumé has some pretty shady dealings in it.
Oh for sure. She’s been orbiting Trump for a long time. But, she’s not a bomb thrower who rapes children.
I just came across this old article about how she was likely involved in the cover up scandal during his first presidential run, but there was not enough evidence for the high standards of the court. In other words, it was obviously her, but they just couldn’t prove it.
Bondi: ‘I don’t think it’s me’ on secret Trump tape | Politico | 2018
The 2016 Advocate article @Drusas linked to above has some really jaw-dropping stuff about her.
https://www.advocate.com/politicians/2016/9/13/8-lowest-points-pam-bondis-sad-career
Oh, and he apparently broke some laws in order to bribe her through her reelection campaign in 2013 for helping him get out of his Trump University scandal:
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — It was Aug. 29, 2013, an unremarkable day inside Florida’s whitewashed Capitol, and a typically sweltering one outside among the moss-bearded oaks and sabal palms. Around 3:45 p.m., Jennifer Meale, the communications director for Attorney General Pam Bondi, fielded a seemingly routine call from a financial reporter for The Orlando Sentinel. The attorney general of New York had recently filed a lawsuit against Donald J. Trump alleging fraud in the marketing of Trump University’s real estate and wealth-building seminars. Had Florida ever conducted its own investigation, the reporter asked.
The Sentinel’s report, which was published on Sept. 13, 2013, paraphrased Ms. Meale’s response and took it a step further, saying that Ms. Bondi’s office would “determine whether Florida should join the multi-state case.” Four days later, a check for $25,000 from the Donald J. Trump Foundation landed in the Tampa office of a political action committee that had been formed to support Ms. Bondi’s 2014 re-election. In mid-October, her office announced that it would not be acting on the Trump University complaints.
But documents obtained this week by The New York Times, including a copy of Mr. Trump’s check, at least partly undercut that timeline. Although the check was received by Ms. Bondi’s committee four days after the Sentinel report, and was recorded as such in her financial disclosure filings, it was actually dated and signed by Mr. Trump four days before the article appeared.
