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Pam Bondi, who Donald Trump tapped last night for attorney general after former Representative Matt Gaetz dropped his bid, is arriving on the national stage with a smaller profile and less political baggage than Gaetz.
Bondi began working as an assistant state attorney in the Tampa-area in the 1990s, before becoming Florida’s first female attorney general in 2011. She left that post in 2019 and became a lobbyist for a powerhouse Republican firm. While there, she represented major corporations and foreign governments with interests before the U.S. government.
Like Gaetz, Bondi is a Trump loyalist. She served on Trump’s legal team during his first impeachment and oversaw the filing of voting-related lawsuits in battleground states.
The president-elect has been keen to install a close ally at the Justice Department. He has vowed to purge the agency of what he calls “deep state” foes — suggesting an end to the department’s longstanding practice of independence.
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