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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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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

how is that not a stage name

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 117 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Predictable. Maybe the Gaetz pick was just in order to make the Pam Bondi selection look halfway sane.

It's not, mind you.

[–] astrsk@fedia.io 67 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At this point every single move he makes is 100% predictable based on 1980-2000 business marketing strategies.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You mean the business marketing strategies that allowed him to bankrupt multiple companies?

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

When he bankrupts the country it will bigly beautiful.

[–] justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Mac@mander.xyz 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Wow, you must be able to tell the future if you called that Trump would pick someone horrible. Who could have guessed that? lol

[–] justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You greatly overestimate Trump's planning skills

[–] justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Oh he's an idiot.

He has someone smart behind him though, dont assume that his entire team is idiots.

Just like in 2016, he was able to do rallies, albeit this time barely coherent ones, that were tailored to the demographics of each stop.
E.g. Rust belt its all about a reliance on the crowd wanting manufacturing jobs back and not understanding tariffs. Whereas in NYC it was anti-immigrant racism spiced through an insult comic because the rich of NYC hate them in "their city."

[–] Makhno@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

He has someone smart behind him though, dont assume that his entire team is idiots.

Right here is a huge reason dems lost. The narcissism and self-righteousness over their own intellect blinded them to the real threat. Don't underestimate fascism

[–] 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't know anything about her. What's her story?

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

She is anti same sex marriage along with all the other repugnant policies of the party.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago

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.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Phew, glad to see she's also a piece of shit. Definitely more appropriate than Gaetz but come on.

[–] Free_Thoughts@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why does that make you happy?

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

Because I missed the /s

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 55 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

Oh hey Look it's the DEMOCRAT Deep State!

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is it pure coincidence that she kind of looks like Ivanka?

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 3 points 14 hours ago
[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (1 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

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They decanted another Marjorie Taylor Greene for the role?

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

decanted

Been running into some poets lately here on lemmy

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

From the cryogenic vats where they store them

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

🤣 love it

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Is there a chance he somehow thinks she's related to James Bond

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Jesus, I would not have thought there was a worse pick than Gaetz. Joe Arpaio maybe? Ugh.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] AlbinoPython@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)
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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

I wouldn't be shocked if he woud pick Beffrey Jepstein, a child loving elderly guy with a mustache.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's a good thing Trump isn't on Lemmy, because if he saw that, he might actually do it

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Someone in another thread suggested the pillow guy. That would have been epic.

[–] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whoa don't repeat that too much, he would totally appoint that asshole to some position

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago

Ugh, it’s like Candyman, isn’t it?

[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Fortunately, she's a lightweight and relatively incompetent..

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Does it matter if you're a puppet for the Heritage Foundation?

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

incompetent jurist, perhaps. but her full résumé has some pretty shady dealings in it.

[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh for sure. She's been orbiting Trump for a long time. But, she's not a bomb thrower who rapes children.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

Yet. You never know with this crowd...

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