President-elect Donald J. Trump rapidly swept apart Thursday’s unhealthy headlines about Matt Gaetz by speedily substituting Pam Bondi, a fellow Florida Republican with a starkly completely different profile — however the same repute for fealty — to be his legal professional basic.
Ms. Bondi, 59, is a lobbyist and Trump loyalist who served as Florida’s legal professional basic from 2011 to 2019. She has charted a extra typical and fewer clamorous course than Mr. Gaetz, with little of the ugly private or political baggage that led some Republicans to oppose Mr. Gaetz’s nomination.
She was a neighborhood prosecutor.
Ms. Bondi, the daughter of the mayor of a small Tampa-area municipality, started working as an assistant state legal professional in Hillsborough County within the Nineteen Nineties. Throughout 18 years as a prosecutor, she tried instances “ranging from domestic violence to capital murder,” in accordance with the bio web page at her lobbying agency.
She supervised a handful of high-profile instances, most notably one involving the previous New York Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden, who served a one-year jail sentence for violating probation in a drug case in 2006.
She was elected Florida’s first feminine legal professional basic in 2010.
Ms. Bondi — a Democrat till 2000 — emerged from a crowded Republican main to win the legal professional basic’s race after garnering the assist of Sarah Palin, the previous Alaska governor and failed 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee, and by touting her powerful stance on crime throughout appearances on Fox Information.
Throughout her eight-year tenure, she tried unsuccessfully to overturn and weaken the Inexpensive Care Act, opposed increasing authorized protections for the L.G.B.T.Q. neighborhood and cultivated a nationwide repute by supporting anti-human-trafficking efforts.
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