New attorney general pick's past vow: prosecute the 'bad' prosecutors who indicted Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Trump won re-election earlier this month.
46% : "I would expect her to do exactly what Trump wants her to do," said a recently departed senior Justice Department official.
36% : She 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.
33% : 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.
25% : "Bondi also served as a defense lawyer for Trump during his first impeachment, claiming the president was being unfairly investigated.
23% : Bondi spent the last decade defending Trump and attacking those who investigate him.
22% : "The Department of Justice, the prosecutors will be prosecuted, the bad ones," Bondi said on Fox News last year after Trump was indicted in Georgia on charges of trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
22% : The Post also reported that Trump expects the Justice Department to investigate his long-discredited claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election.
21% : Current and former Justice Department officials have expressed mixed reactions to Bondi, whom Trump picked to be attorney general hours after Rep. Matt Gaetz, who has repeatedly denied allegations of paying prostitutes and having sex with a minor, withdrew from consideration.
20% : And, if she declines to prosecute prosecutors for political reasons, will be forced out by Trump like her predecessors.
19% : When Trump tried to appoint Jeffrey Clark, a DOJ official who supported his false 2020 fraud claims, as acting attorney general, a half dozen senior DOJ leaders threatened to resign.
7% : Harris attacked Trump in the 2020 and 2024 elections and painted him as a business fraud and threat to democracy.
7% : On Friday, 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.
4% : "Bondi called the prosecutors who charged Trump with crimes members of "the deep state" -- spreading a false conspiracy theory that DOJ prosecutors and FBI agents were part of a secret cabal trying to undermine Trump.

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