President-elect Donald Trump’s team released a new video Wednesday touting the background of former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, Trump’s choice to helm the Department of Justice (DOJ) in his second term.
The 106-second-long video highlights Bondi’s accomplishments as Florida’s top cop between 2011 and 2019, including her crackdowns against illicit opioid “pill mill” clinics that plagued her home state. Bondi, tapped by Trump as his nominee for attorney general after former Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz withdrew himself from the nomination process, was a defense attorney for Trump during his first impeachment trial in 2020 and has served as the chair of the America First Policy Institute’s Center for Litigation.
The video was paid for by Never Surrender, Inc., and it was not authorized by any candidate or candidates committee.
The new video is a compilation of past news clips from Bondi’s time in office as Florida’s top prosecutor. Beyond her work to crack down on illicit opioid distribution, the promotional video also touts her work with the Federal Trade Commission to stop tech-enabled scams and other attempts to swindle senior citizens residing in Florida.
“All I want to say to this drug dealer, big mistake by putting the president’s picture on this,” Bondi says in an old clip included in the video as she holds up seized drugs with a depiction of Trump on them. “Big mistake, because he is going to be our most fierce advocate in taking this junk off of our streets.”
Trump campaigned aggressively on cracking down hard against drug traffickers, particularly those bringing fentanyl or fentanyl-laced products into the country. Bondi’s record suggests she is on the same page as the president-elect when it comes to stopping the flow of deadly narcotics entering the U.S.
When The Florida Times-Union endorsed Bondi in 2014, the outlet wrote that “she went after the pill mills and helped shut them down with allies in the Legislature” and pointed out that “no longer are seven Floridians dying each day from prescription drug abuse.”
“Pam Bondi spent her career keeping Americans safe as a prosecutor in Tampa for 20 years and as Florida’s attorney general for 8 years,” Alex Pfeiffer, a spokesman for the Trump transition team, said in a statement shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. “She’s ready to bring her dedication to keeping dangerous drugs off the streets to the Department of Justice.”
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