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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 7 points 2 hours ago

how is that not a stage name

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] Iheartcheese 8 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] gedaliyah 80 points 11 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 minutes ago* (last edited 19 minutes ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours 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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 30 minutes ago

You greatly overestimate Trump's planning skills

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] gedaliyah 43 points 11 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Why does that make you happy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Because I missed the /s

[–] Cheems 1 points 8 hours ago

Rest assured, no one aside from his supporters thinks any move he makes is sane

[–] gedaliyah 38 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Oh hey Look it's the DEMOCRAT Deep State!

[–] gedaliyah 31 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

They decanted another Marjorie Taylor Greene for the role?

[–] MataVatnik 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

decanted

Been running into some poets lately here on lemmy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

From the cryogenic vats where they store them

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 hours ago (7 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] finitebanjo 25 points 11 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours 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.

[–] AlbinoPython 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] finitebanjo 1 points 9 hours ago

That's what I said. All adult to child sexual context is rape.

[–] BetaBlake 2 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] Soup 12 points 11 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] solrize 9 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours 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.

[–] Rapidcreek 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Rapidcreek 3 points 10 hours ago

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