Florida’s Former Attorney General Pam Bondi talks all through the yearly Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) convention on February 23, 2024, in National Harbor,Maryland
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President- select Donald Trump launched Thursday night time that his brand-new selection for attorney general is Pam Bondi.
Bondi previously acted as Florida’s chief regulation officer.
The assertion got here merely hours after previousRep Matt Gaetz, R-Fla, withdrew from consideration
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“For too long, the partisan Department of Justice has been weaponized against me and other Republicans — Not anymore,” Trump claimed in a message to Truth Social. “Pam will refocus the DOJ to its intended purpose of fighting Crime, and Making America Safe Again.”
Trump likewise applauded her job versus “the trafficking of deadly drugs.” Bondi previously labored with a Trump cost concentrating on ending the opioid scenario and coping with medication dependency.
The chief regulation officer setting would definitely name for verification by the Senate.
Bondi has prolonged connections toTrump During the 2016 Republican National Convention, she joined in “lock her up” incantations targeted on earlier Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and was after that element of Trump’s safety group all through his preliminary impeachment check.
After Trump shed the 2020 political election, Bondi was related to initiatives to reverse the outcomes, falsely claiming that Trump had “won Pennsylvania” all through a press convention in Philadelphia.
Earlier on Thursday, Gaetz announced that he was withdrawing his identify from issue to think about to be the chief regulation officer, saying that his “confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump/Vance Transition.”
Gaetz handled claims that consisted of constructing love with a 17-year-old woman. He has really refuted the claims versus him.
Trump applauded Gaetz on Truth Social after he took out, stating that Gaetz “has a improbable future.
