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Pam Bondi, Trump’s Nominee for Attorney General, Will Be Grilled By The US Senate.
(VOR News) – The candidate Donald Trump has chosen to be attorney general, Pam Bondi, will be interviewed by a Senate committee. The date of the interview is set for Wednesday.
It is expected that the Democrats would grill her on the Republican presidential candidate’s vows to use the Justice Department to exact revenge on his political rivals. From 2011 to 2019, Pam Bondi, now 59, served as Florida’s attorney general. He also assisted in defending President Trump in 2019 throughout the impeachment process.
Despite calling for Ukraine to look into Bob Biden, Pam Bondi said that.
He was found not guilty. After former US Representative Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration while the House Ethics Committee investigated claims of drug use and sexual misconduct, Pam Bondi emerged as Trump’s second choice for the position.
The Republican-controlled Senate is considering a number of Cabinet nominations, some of whom are contentious, in advance of Trump’s reelection on Monday. On Tuesday, lawmakers held a heated meeting with Pete Hegseth, Trump’s nominee for defense secretary. Trump’s candidate for Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is scheduled to speak to lawmakers on Thursday.
The fact that Pam Bondi is a big Trump fan is now well accepted. When she was Florida’s attorney general in 2013, she declined to cooperate with other states’ investigations into Trump University. Shortly after the Trump Foundation gave $25,000 to a political action group that supported her candidacy, this decision was made.
She claimed that the payment had nothing to do with her choice to ignore Trump University during the probe. After Trump lost the 2020 election, she made appearances on television shows and at press conferences, reiterating some of the unfounded accusations that Trump had made regarding election violations.
In a more recent position with the Trump-affiliated America First Policy Institute, she co-signed two court briefs that backed Trump’s legal defense team’s efforts to fight federal and state criminal charges against him in the states of Florida and New York.
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are anticipated to engage in a contentious debate with Pam Bondi on her willingness to prioritize the interests of the United States over those of Trump.
During his campaign, Donald Trump said the Justice Department had brought two criminal charges against him to prevent him from seeking reelection. After Trump won the November election, both cases were abandoned.
In the news are lobbying efforts.
Concerns regarding Pam Bondi’s employment as a lobbyist for Ballard Partners since 2019 are anticipated from the Democrats on the panel. Federal ethical standards frequently mandate that government employees refrain from engaging in any conduct that could have a direct impact on their financial circumstances.
For a predetermined period of time, they must also avoid working on projects involving people with whom they have a personal or professional contact.
In the past or present Pam Bondi has worked with clients such as Major League Baseball, General Motors, Fidelity, Carnival North America LLC, Uber Technologies Inc., Amazon.com, GEO Group Inc., Alden Torch Financial, the Dominican Republic, Qatar, Zimbabwe’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Kosovo in her lobbying business. These are just some of the clients that she has been involved with.
The Justice Department looked into a number of businesses during Vice President Joe Biden’s administration, including General Motors, Uber, Amazon, and Carnival.
Federal expenditure data shows that the Justice Department has numerous outstanding contracts with GEO Group, a commercial provider of jail services. As late as 2024, Pam Bondi was lobbying for a number of law enforcement organizations, some of which include members whose offices receive grant monies from the Justice Department.
In her questionnaire to the Senate, Bondi stated, “If there is a possible conflict of interest, I will confer with the relevant ethics officials from the Department of Justice and act in a way that is consistent with the regulations.”
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