"Dangerous and effective": Experts say Trump AG pick Pam Bondi is "frankly, worse" than Matt Gaetz

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : She has also demonstrated a willingness to do as Trump asks.
51% : Hours after he announced his sudden exit from the race, and a day after Vice President-elect JD Vance made the rounds urging senators to give Gaetz a chance, Trump had already moved on to a Florida woman: Pam Bondi, a loyalist who served as the Sunshine State's attorney general from 2011 to 2019, during which time she also served as a fill-in host for Fox News.
42% : As someone who doesn't come from DOJ, will she understand the importance of independence, or might she permit Trump to have direct contact and influence over criminal cases?"It is safe to assume that the president-elect is looking for the same thing in Bondi as he saw in Gaetz: a loyalist who won't balk at ordering dubious investigations and also won't appoint any meddlesome special counsels should the president himself be accused of wrongdoing.
31% : "For too long, the partisan Department of Justice has been weaponized against me and other Republicans," Trump posted on Truth Social, announcing his selection of Bondi.
29% : More recently on Fox News, Bondi reiterated her support for politicized justice, declaring that those who dared investigate Trump would themselves be targeted.
24% : Since leaving public office, she has been busy as the head of the America First Policy Institute, building off her 2020 election denial -- "We've won Pennsylvania," Bondi asserted four years ago, when she claimed "fake ballots" were being counted in a state Trump lost by more than 80,000 votes -- to argue in court, earlier this year, that election results should be thrown out in Democratic-leaning counties if a single (MAGA) election official says there might be fraud.
22% : "What happens when Trump asks her to engage in revenge prosecutions?
14% : After leaving office, she defended Trump during his first impeachment trial for attempting to extort Ukraine, going all-in on the debunked claim that President Joe Biden had a prosecutor there fired because they were doing too much to address corruption (the opposite was in fact the case).
9% : The decision to sit out the litigation against Trump -- litigation that resulted in a $25 million settlement -- came only after Bondi received an illegal $25,000 campaign contribution from a Trump-affiliated charity; Trump would go on to name Bondi's chief of staff to a top position in the Department of Education in his first term.

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