What to know about Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general pick

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Bondi has endorsed Trump since 2016, doing so even as Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), her home-state senator, was running for president.
54% : Shortly before leaving office, Trump named Bondi as a member of the board of trustees for the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts.
53% : Trump and Bondi's ties go back to even before he entered politics, when in 2013 he gave a $25,000 donation from the Donald J. Trump Foundation to a political committee supporting Bondi.
35% : Bondi also defended Florida's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, with her office in court arguing that recognizing such marriages from other states would cause "significant public harm."
34% : Trump paid a $2,500 fine.
31% : Bondi was accused of improperly accepting a $25,000 donation from Trump in 2013 when she was weighing multiple fraud accusations against Trump University.
30% : Bondi was one of numerous attorneys who stepped into the fray as Trump was challenging the outcome of the 2020 election.
28% : "For too long, the partisan Department of Justice has been weaponized against me and other Republicans - Not anymore," Trump wrote in announcing his pick on Truth Social.
24% : She has since been a critic of special counsel Jack Smith, who brought charges against Trump relating to his efforts to thwart the transfer of power after he lost and his mishandling of classified documents after leaving the White House.
17% : Trump named his choice Thursday, just hours after former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) withdrew from consideration his nomination that was plagued by allegations that he had sexual relations with a minor, which he denies.
13% : Bondi was among those who backed Trump's claims there was widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, falsely claiming Trump had won Pennsylvania and insisting they had "evidence of cheating.

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