Pam Bondi can't be trusted with the power of the Justice Department

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : This time, Donald Trump is determined to get exactly what he wants at the Justice Department: a compliant attorney general and total control.
43% : Placing Bondi at the helm would further erode public trust in the rule of law, undermine the department's independence and pave the way for Trump to use the vast powers of the department to go after his perceived political enemies with no legal or factual basis.
42% : The available facts did not substantiate those claims, but the peddlers didn't feel bound to any objective reality; what counted, to them, was whatever Trump wanted to hear.
26% : Trump initially tapped then-Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, who later withdrew his name from consideration.
23% : Weeks after he withdrew, the House Ethics Committee released a report that says Gaetz bought illegal drugs, paid multiple women for sex and had sex with a 17-year-old while he was serving in Congress.
22% : Trump is determined to avoid the setbacks of his first term, when his attorneys general defied him by siding with facts and respecting institutional norms when it mattered most to Trump that they do the opposite.
20% : "Gutless pig" and "coward" are how Trump, after he was out of the White House, described Barr.
13% : Enter Bondi, whose absolute fealty to Trump is clear: She stridently represented Trump during his first impeachment trial; she knowingly asserted Trump's false claims that Joe Biden, as vice president, used his position to benefit his son's business associates; and, instead of letting the justice system work its will, she traveled to New York and fervently criticized the prosecutor and the judge overseeing Trump's criminal trial there.

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