Pam Bondi is Trump’s second choice for AG of the United States – she is another iron-clad sycophant explained in this NBC
News headline story:
“AG pick Pam Bondi past vow: Prosecute the bad prosecutors who indicted
Trump”
Current and former DOJ Department officials fear that Bondi, a
longtime Trump loyalist, will not hesitate to carry out his push to investigate
his enemies.
In 2013, Florida AG Pam Bondi’s office faced a decision: whether to join a NY AG’s investigation into
Trump University, where students paid up to $35,000 for business classes that
critics claimed were fraudulent. Trump
lost the case and paid $25 million in settlement to former students.
Despite receiving complaints of exploitation from students,
Bondi and then-California AG Kamala Harris both declined to join the investigation. Both had received
political donations from Donald Trump and denied that the funds
influenced their office’s decision.
Since then, those two have followed polar opposite political
paths. Harris attacked Trump in the 2020 and 2024 elections and painted him as
a business fraud and threat to democracy and he lost in 2020 but he won re-election in 2024.
Bondi spent the last
decade defending Trump and attacking those who investigate him. Now, if
confirmed by the Senate, Bondi is set to become Trump’s AG.
A central question is whether Bondi will follow through on
vows she made in television interviews to investigate what she called
out-of-control federal prosecutors and FBI agents, saying: “The DOJ the
prosecutors will be prosecuted, all the bad ones,” Bondi said on Fox
News last year after Trump was indicted in GA on charges of trying to
overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Bondi called the prosecutors part of the “deep state” and
said: “The investigators will be investigated.”
She was spreading a false conspiracy theory that DOJ
prosecutors and FBI agents were part of a secret cabal trying to undermine
Trump, and without citing evidence, she said that since they were no longer
“...hiding in the shadows ... they can all be investigated.”
Current & former DOJ officials expressed mixed reactions to Bondi, whom Trump picked to be AG after
Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration over child sex charges, etc.
The DOJ officials said they view Bondi as a much more favorable pick than Gaetz because she had a long career as a local prosecutor and FL AG.
At the same time, they see her as a Trump loyalist whom they fear
will not hesitate to carry out his push to investigate his enemies. One recently
departed senior DOJ official said: “Members of special counsel Jack Smith’s
team are very concerned and talking to lawyers they said we would expect her to
do exactly what Trump wants her to do.”
The Washington Post citing two individuals close to
Trump’s transition, reported that Trump intends to fire Smith and the
entire team that helped Smith indict Trump on federal charges of mishandling classified documents and attempting to
overturn the 2020 election results, and they also reported that Trump expects
the DOJ to investigate his long-discredited claims of widespread fraud in the
2020 election.
Trump’s last AG, William Barr, was dismissive of Trump’s
claims of election fraud in 2020 and declined to launch DOJ investigations into
them, citing a lack of evidence. After publicly stating that there was no evidence of widespread fraud, Barr resigned.
When Trump tried to appoint Jeffrey Clark, a DOJ official who supported his false 2020 fraud claims, as acting AG a half dozen senior DOJ leaders threatened to resign, and instead three days later, on January 6, 2021, rioters stormed the Capitol to block the certification of the 2020 defeat of Trump by Joe Biden.
Bondi, in the meantime, supported
Trump’s claims of voter fraud and a rigged and stolen election.
She even traveled to Philadelphia and held news conferences where she
promoted false claims of widespread ballot fraud and insisted the election had
been stolen from Trump, saying at the rallies: “We know that ballots have
been dumped. We’ve heard that people were receiving ballots that were in fact dead,
and is was happening all over the country.”
Background on Bondi: She also served as a defense lawyer for Trump during his first impeachment, claiming the president was being unfairly investigated. She is currently a partner at the lobbying firm Ballard Partners, where she chairs its corporate regulatory compliance practice, according to the firm’s website.
Dave Aronberg, the
state attorney for Palm Beach County, Florida, told The Washington Post that Bondi will be much
better for the DOJ than Gaetz, adding: “She is hands-on and she is also
loyal to her co-workers, meaning she’s not going to try to push anyone out
because they are a Democrat or a career prosecutor who is apolitical. She
believes in the rule of law.”
The question now becomes that if she is confirmed: “Will she keep
her public promise that prosecutors will be prosecuted, and, if she declines to
prosecute the prosecutors for political reasons, will she be forced out by
Trump like other AGs before her for not being loyal to him.”
A former DOJ official
who worked during the first Trump administration said that he did not know
Bondi well but that he did know Trump, saying: “I think whoever he picks is
bound to be loyal to him first and foremost. That’s the key test for him. I
don’t expect him to pick someone who will be honorable and loyal to the
Constitution above him.”
My 2 Cents: Add Pam Bondi to the Trump list of unfavorable choices
for the highest legal position in the land that of AG of the United States.
She like all the others is
a loyalist who would have to bow to Trump’s his every wish and keep their
promise like she has made to go after and “prosecute the prosecutors” who went
after and indicted Trump.
Bondi like so many others
are sycophants glued to Trump and not to the office they might get... the rule
of law it seems does not apply to him ergo it will not apply to them, either.
The Constitution be damned
we only serve Dictator Don, at least it appears to be the way of this cabinet is
being developed and filled – and that is not good for democracy by any standard,
or for our future.
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