‘She’s No One’s Patsy’: Dem Florida State Attorney Says Pam Bondi ‘Believes In The Rule Of Law’

Democratic Florida state attorney Dave Aronberg Friday commended President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi.

Trump announced Bondi, Florida’s former attorney general, as his choice Thursday shortly after Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz removed himself from consideration. Aronberg, on “Morning Joe,” recalled Bondi hiring him as Florida’s “drug czar” despite his Democratic affiliation, suggesting that her loyalty to Trump would not interfere with her dedication to law enforcement.

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“Thank you for bringing up the traumatic experience of my statewide election loss in 2010. So I ran for attorney general, lost in the Democratic primary. Pam Bondi was running at the same time on the Republican side. She likes to say that she beat me and then she hired me. That gives me too much credit,” Aronberg said. “I didn’t even make it to the big game because I lost in the primary. But then, even though I endorsed my Democratic opponent who ran against her in the general election, she still appointed me as drug czar to go after the pill mills, the opioid epidemic. And we shut down all those pill mills that made Florida the drug supplier for the rest of the country.”

Trump praised Bondi’s efforts “to stop the trafficking of deadly drugs” in his Truth Social announcement