8mo ago

Trump names longtime ally Pam Bondi as his new attorney general pick after Matt Gaetz withdraws

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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.

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8mo ago

Trump announces Pam Bondi as new attorney general pick hours after Matt Gaetz withdraws

www.nbcnews.com /politics/donald-trump/trump-announces-pam-bondi-attorney-general-pick-gaetz-withdraws-rcna181279

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Predictable. Maybe the Gaetz pick was just in order to make the Pam Bondi selection look halfway sane.
It's not, mind you.
- 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.
  
  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 don't know anything about her. What's her story?
  
  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.
  
  https://www.advocate.com/politicians/2016/9/13/8-lowest-points-pam-bondis-sad-career
- Rest assured, no one aside from his supporters thinks any move he makes is sane
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:
New Records Shed Light on Donald Trump’s $25,000 Gift to Florida Official | New York Times | Sept. 14, 2016
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.
- Oh hey Look it's the DEMOCRAT Deep State!
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
They decanted another Marjorie Taylor Greene for the role?
- decanted
  Been running into some poets lately here on lemmy
  
  From the cryogenic vats where they store them
Jesus, I would not have thought there was a worse pick than Gaetz. Joe Arpaio maybe? Ugh.
- 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.
  
  Gaetz is probably a worse person, but I'm unsure if he'd be a worse AG. I think the less competent and the more dirt on them that is public the better, as far as Trump picks go.
  
  *sex trafficing victims
- It's a good thing Trump isn't on Lemmy, because if he saw that, he might actually do it
- 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.
- Someone in another thread suggested the pillow guy. That would have been epic.
- I wouldn't be shocked if he woud pick Beffrey Jepstein, a child loving elderly guy with a mustache.
- Whoa don't repeat that too much, he would totally appoint that asshole to some position
  
  Ugh, it’s like Candyman, isn’t it?
- Fuck, he's still alive? I could swear I remember hearing he died a few years back. Must have been wishful thinking on my part.
how is that not a stage name
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.
- Does it matter if you're a puppet for the Heritage Foundation?
Is it pure coincidence that she kind of looks like Ivanka?
- Not at all
Is there a chance he somehow thinks she's related to James Bond

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