Who is Pam Bondi, Trump’s Replacement Pick for AG? MSNBC Contributor Warns Trump’s New AG Pick Pam Bondi Should Spark ‘fear’— ‘because she’s competent’

Who is Pam Bondi, Trump’s replacement pick for AG?

President-elect Donald Trump’s new choice for US attorney general is a far cry from his previous one.

Trump’s latest pick, Pam Bondi, 59, brings with her the same reputation that former nominee Matt Gaetz had as a Trump loyalist.

But Bondi lacks the personal controversies of Gaetz — a former Florida congressman who had to withdraw in the face of Senate Republican opposition. She also brings with her significant comparable experience from her eight years as Florida’s attorney general from 2011 to 2019.

As a result, she is expected to have a far easier path to confirmation.

The telegenic lawyer served on Trump’s defense team in his first Senate impeachment trial in 2020 for pressuring Ukraine to investigate the Biden family — memorably arguing that the Biden family was indeed corrupt and warranted investigation.

Most recently, Bondi has worked for the America First Policy Institute, a pro-Trump think tank that has been trying to develop new policies that could be implemented in Trump’s second term.

If confirmed, Bondi is expected to be a prominent face of efforts to rein in what Trump, 78, calls the weaponization of the federal government against him — including moving to dismiss a pair of federal criminal cases against him for challenging the results of the 2020 election and allegedly mishandling classified documents.

She is also likely be brought in to battle litigation challenging his efforts to mass-deport illegal migrants, while overseeing efforts to overhaul the FBI, which is part of the Justice Department, and pushing Democrat-led jurisdictions to take a tougher approach to violent crime.

Another pick from Florida

Bondi’s selection was announced Thursday by Trump shortly after Gaetz dropped out as even Senate Republicans demanded to see a draft House Ethics Committee report detailing allegations of sexual misconduct against the former rep. Gaetz has denied the accusations.

She joins other prominent Floridians in the lineup for Trump’s looming return to power, including incoming White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, Secretary of State-designee Marco Rubio and national security adviser-designee Mike Waltz.

Bondi was elected Florida’s attorney general in 2010 and re-elected in 2014 after serving as a prosecutor in Tampa. —>READ MORE HERE

MSNBC contributor warns Trump’s new AG pick Pam Bondi should spark ‘fear’— ‘because she’s competent’:

College professor and MSNBC contributor Jason Johnson warned that President-Elect Donald Trump’s new pick to lead the Justice Department should spark “fear” among the left because she could actually execute his agenda.

Trump announced Thursday evening that he’s nominating former attorney general of Florida Pam Bondi as the next attorney general of the United States. The latest cabinet pick replaces former Florida representative Matt Gaetz, who withdrew as nominee for attorney general on Thursday after the “distraction” his nomination had caused due to a swirl of allegations about paying underage women for sex.

Johnson told MSNBC host Ari Melber that this is bad news for those concerned about Trump.

“Occasionally, attorneys general try to behave like they are not the personal lawyer of the President of the United States. That is completely out the window. Pam Bondi is exactly what I was saying in the last segment that we should all fear, because she’s competent,” he said.

“We may not agree with her ideologically, but she actually knows how to do this job,” Johnson told Melber, adding, “So if anyone on the Democratic side or anyone who cared about liberty or justice was thinking ‘Well maybe Matt Gaetz will screw this up and that will give us time,’ no. Pam Bondi knows what she is doing.”

He went on to tell the news host that her association with Florida’s government indicates she knows how to use state power to accomplish conservative agendas. —>READ MORE HERE

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