Trump chooses Bondi for AG after Gaetz withdraws | Jefferson City News-Tribune

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

87% : Hours later, Gaetz posted on social media that he looks "forward to continuing the fight to save our country," adding, "Just maybe from a different post."Trump, in a social media post, said: "I greatly appreciate the recent efforts of Matt Gaetz in seeking approval to be Attorney General.
87% : Matt has a wonderful future, and I look forward to watching all of the great things he will do!"Last week, Trump named personal lawyers Todd Blanche, Emil Bove and D. John Sauer to senior roles in the department.
41% : Bondi would inherit a Justice Department expected to pivot sharply on civil rights, corporate enforcement and the prosecutions of hundreds of Trump supporters charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol -- defendants whom Trump has pledged to pardon.
30% : Bondi was among a group of Republicans who showed up to support Trump at his hush money criminal trial in New York that ended in May with a conviction on 34 felony counts.
30% : That announcement capped a turbulent eight-day period in which Trump sought to capitalize on his decisive election win to force Senate Republicans to accept provocative selections like Gaetz, who had been investigated by the Justice Department before being tapped last week to lead it.
30% : It's unlikely that Bondi would be confirmed in time to overlap with Smith, who brought two federal indictments against Trump that are both expected to wind down before the incoming president takes office.
27% : "For too long, the partisan Department of Justice has been weaponized against me and other Republicans -- Not anymore," Trump said in a social media post.
10% : She has been a vocal critic of the criminal cases against Trump as well as Jack Smith, the special counsel who charged Trump in two federal cases.
6% : In one radio appearance, she blasted Smith and other prosecutors who have charged Trump as "horrible" people she said were trying to make names for themselves by "going after Donald Trump and weaponizing our legal system.

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