Pam Bondi, who has just been chosen by Donald Trump to lead the leader of the US Department of Justice, is the first female attorney of Florida but perhaps most known in recent years as a loyal person to the former president.
TrumpannouncedBondi was the person he nominated for the position of American General attorney on Thursday, a few hours after Matt Gaetz, who was first selected by Trump,withdrawFrom the consideration in the context of the Republican Party more and more oppositionallegationsHe has sexual misconduct.
“I am proud to announce the former General of the Great State of Florida,Pam Bondi, is the next general attorney of the United States. PAM has been a prosecutor for nearly 20 years, where she is very tough with violent criminals, ”Trump said in the post on Truth Social.
Bondi used to be the president of the American Policy Institute above all, a research team by former employeesof the Trump administrationEstablished and served in Trump’s first power transfer group.
The 59 -year -old woman is Trump’s long -term ally – she was considered in his first term as a potential candidate for the highest law enforcement position of the nation.
According to people who understand this issue, the Guardian newspaper reportedOn Thursday, Trump’s advisers told Trump that she was a good alternative for Gaetz because she had allies in the Republican Party as well as in Trump’s world.
Before joining the national politics, Bondi spent more than 18 years of being a prosecutor at the Hillsborough District Lawyer Office. She was an unknown politician when she was elected Florida’s first female attorney in 2010 and received support from former Vice President Sarah Palin candidate.
She held the leading prosecutor of Florida from 2011 to 2019, and then became the corridor for customers in the United States and International.
The term of the General Attorney General of Bondi also coincided with the two most noticeable and deadly shootings that the country has witnessed. In 2016, after 47 people were shot dead and more than 50 were injuredIn an extreme attackIn a LGBTQ+ nightclub in Orlando, Bondi was Anderson Cooper of CNNCriticism on televisionBecause she supported the ban on homosexual marriage in this state.
Two years later, 17 students and staff were shot dead by a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas. Bondi called for death penalty for the shooting and supporting Governor Rick Scott at that time through the law restriction law of the state, raising the minimum age for a gun buyer from 18 to 21. This law also spends millions of dollars for mental health resources expanding in schools, to build a replacement school for Marjory Stoneman Douglas and increase security in the campus.
Bondi’s relationship with Trump had been existed many years ago. When she was the General Florida, she supported Trump in 2016 instead of a candidate from her home state, Marco Rubio.
In 2016, Associated Press revealed thatBondi personally requestedTrump donated her campaign three years earlier. This money comes from a Trump family fund, violating policies on charities to participate in politics. The $ 25,000 donation also came when Bondi’s office was considering joining New York in a survey of Trump universities, allegations of fraud and false promises about training prospects and employment for students. According to Associated Press, after receiving the Czech, Bondi refused to participate in the investigation.
Florida Times-Union reported, Bondi triedSend the Czech backBut being rejected and returned by Trump.
Bondi was later one of Trump’s lawyers in the impeachment process in 2019, when he was charged – but not convicted – for trying to make military aid to Ukraine depend on the goodwill of investigating Joe Biden of that country. And in the trial of Trump about the money gagging, Bondi was one of the few Republican party members appearing in the court to support him.
Bondi harshly criticized criminal cases against Trump as well as Jack Smith, a special adviser who accused Trump in two federal cases. She described Smith and other prosecutors who accused Trump as “terrible” people of our legal system weapons. “
