Who is Pam Bondi, Trump's new pick to lead the US justice department?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : In 2016, the Associated Press revealed that Bondi had personally asked Trump for a donation to her campaign three years earlier.
52% : While serving as Florida's attorney general, she backed Trump in 2016 over a candidate from her home state, Marco Rubio.
50% : Bondi's ties to Trump go back years.
45% : Pam was a prosecutor for nearly 20 years, where she was very tough on Violent Criminals," Trump said in a Truth Social post.Bondi has been a chair at the America First Policy Institute, a thinktank set up by former Trump administration staffers, and served on Trump's first transition team.
39% : In 2016, after 47 people were shot and killed and more than 50 were injured in an extremist attack on an LGBTQIA+ nightclub in Orlando, Bondi was called out on-air by CNN's Anderson Cooper over her support for a ban on same-sex marriage in the state.
39% : Bondi did try to send the check back, the Florida Times-Union reported, but it was rejected and returned by Trump.
31% : Trump was told by advisers that she was a good alternative to Gaetz because she has allies across the Republican party as well as inside Trump's world, according to people familiar with the matter, the Guardian reported Thursday.
12% : Trump announced Bondi as his nominee for US attorney general on Thursday hours after Matt Gaetz, Trump's first pick, bowed out of consideration amid growing Republican opposition following sexual misconduct allegations against him.
1% : Bondi has harshly criticized the criminal cases against Trump as well as the special counsel who charged Trump in two federal cases, describing those who have charged Trump as "horrible" people "weaponizing our legal system".

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