Trump’s Project 2025 Lawyer Pam Bondi Will Put Trump and Violent Insurrectionists Above the Law 

In response to Senate Republicans advancing Project 2025 lawyer and Trump loyalist Pam Bondi’s nomination to be Attorney General, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement:

“Donald Trump desperately wants an Attorney General loyal to him, his toxic Project 2025 agenda, and his billionaire backers – that’s why he picked Pam Bondi. She is a chair of an organization that ‘help[ed] to implement Project 2025,’ faces a mountain of conflicts of interest, and has proven time and again that she will put Trump above the law and the American people. The Attorney General should be focused on protecting Americans’ rights and taking on major criminals, not carrying out Trump’s agenda of revenge and retribution.”

NEW: The Senate advanced Trump loyalist and Project 2025 lawyer Pam Bondi’s nomination to be Attorney General. 

Chad Pergram, Fox News: “AG nominee Bondi voted out of cmte 12-10”

Pam Bondi is an ardent Project 2025 supporter, helping lead an organization that worked “to implement Project 2025” before being tapped for Attorney General.  

America First Policy Institute: “Pam Bondi is from Tampa, Florida, and serves as the Chair for the Center for Litigation, and Co-Chair of the Center for Law and Justice at AFPI.”

Politico: “For the America First Policy Institute, which is helping to implement Project 2025, its grandest ambitions lie in soliciting governors and state attorneys general to the cause, among others.”

New York Times: “Founded by three wealthy Texans in late 2020, the group, known as A.F.P.I., has quickly inserted itself into nearly every corner of Mr. Trump’s political machine, and is closer than any other outside player in his planning for a second term.”

Just like she did after the 2020 election, Bondi will provide Trump with any cover he needs after he pardoned violent rioters who attacked the Capitol on January 6. 

Reuters: “Pam Bondi, Trump’s pick for attorney general, said Trump had won the battleground state of Pennsylvania as votes were still being counted, and implied fraud was taking place.

“‘We do have evidence of cheating,’ Bondi said on Fox News, on Nov. 5, 2020, two days after the election, citing ballots allegedly being ‘dumped’ and mailed to dead people. …

“Trump would go on to lose the state, and the election. No evidence has emerged to support his claims of widespread fraud.”

Washington Post: “In public appearances in the week after the election, Bondi also made unfounded allegations about ‘evidence of cheating’ and ‘fake ballots,’ and in private huddles with other campaign advisers she discussed legal strategies to challenge the results in a state Joe Biden ultimately won by 80,000 votes.”

Senator Adam Schiff: “It will also be important for you to be able to preserve the records, the evidence of the department. Are you ready to commit that none of the evidence in the January 6th investigation will be destroyed under your watch?” 

Bondi: *Doesn’t answer* 

Sen. Schiff: “Do you see any ethical basis to destroy evidence in the January 6th investigation? Then why can’t you answer the question? Why can’t you say I commit to this committee, we will never destroy the evidence in the January 6th investigation. Why can’t you give this committee and the American people that assurance?”

Bondi: *Tries to change the topic* 

Sen. Schiff: “Why do- why do you have difficulty answering that question?”

Bondi: “I can’t believe you are asking that question.” 

Sen. Schiff: “Why do you have difficulty promising to preserve evidence at the Department of Justice? Why is that a difficult question?” 

Bondi: *Doesn’t answer, again.* 

Sen. Schiff: “It shouldn’t be a difficult question.” 

A Trump loyalist, Bondi has a history of placing Trump above the law, previously dropping an investigation into Trump University after asking for and receiving a $25,000 illegal contribution. 

CREW: “In March 2016, CREW discovered that the Trump Foundation had broken the law by giving an illegal $25,000 contribution to a political group supporting Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. Charitable foundations like the Trump Foundation are not allowed to engage in politics. Even more problematic was the fact that the contribution was given as Bondi’s office was deciding whether to take legal action related to Trump University.”

CNN: “The donation came from one of Trump’s charities six days after Bondi’s then-spokeswoman told a reporter their office was ‘currently reviewing the allegations’ against Trump University in a class action lawsuit in New York, according to internal emails that were among more than 8,000 pages of documents originally requested by The Orlando Sentinel and also obtained by CNN.

“Florida never pursued any investigation or action against Trump or his university.”

Vox: “Then, four days later, a $25,000 check from Trump to Bondi’s reelection campaign showed up. Bondi ended up not suing Trump after all, even though she had plenty of reason to do so. Florida had received complaints about Trump’s series of real estate seminars, and a class-action lawsuit on behalf of students in the state is currently in progress in federal court in New York.”

Bondi faces major conflict of interest concerns with the very companies she’s tasked with policing, stemming from her “transactional philosophy” with corporations as Florida’s AG, where she took “donations and free travel” from targets of potential investigations.  

New York Times: “Now, critics question if Ms. Bondi will bring that same transactional philosophy to the Justice Department. …

“Ms. Bondi represented a long roster of corporate clients, including Uber and Amazon. Many of these companies have business with the federal government — and could be subject to scrutiny by a Justice Department run by her, raising questions about potential conflicts of interest. …

“These appeals to Ms. Bondi to not pursue various investigations were often paired with donations and free travel. …

“Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, which is tracking the potential conflicts of interests created by Mr. Trump’s return to the White House, said the lobbying record suggested Ms. Bondi would have an array of conflicts of interest if she is confirmed.

“‘Many of those companies are under investigation or being sued by or are contractors to the federal government,’ Mr. Weissman said. ‘The attorney general is supposed to be the attorney general for all Americans, not for 30 companies that she was registered to lobby for.’”