The President-elect of the United States, Donald Trumpelected this Thursday the former attorney general of Florida Pam Bondi to succeed Matt Gaetz as attorney general of his next cabinet, after having resigned cornered by his sexual scandals.
“Pam was a prosecutor for almost 20 years. She was very tough on violent criminals and made the streets safer for Florida families,” the future president said on his social network Truth Social.
The New York tycoon recalled that, as Florida’s first female attorney generalA position he held from 2011 to 2019, Bondi “worked to end the trafficking of deadly drugs and reduce the tragedy of fentanyl overdose deaths, which have destroyed many families” across the United States.
“He did such an incredible job that I asked him to be part of our Commission on Drug and Opioid Abuse during my first term (2017-2019). “We saved many lives!” he added.
Trump reiterated that “for too long” the Justice Department has been used against him or other Republicans, something he said will stop.
“Pam will refocus the Department of Justice on its goal of fighting crime and make America safe again. I have known Pam for many years. “She is smart and tough,” he said of his new choice, about which he assured that “she will do an excellent job as attorney general.”
Gaetz, who until last week was a member of Congress, renounced his candidacy for attorney general on Thursday.
He was previously investigated by the Department of Justice, but never charged, for allegedly had sex with minors, in violation of human trafficking lawsas well as drug use.
At the same time, he was the subject of a second investigation, open until last week, within the ethics committee of the House of Representatives, but these investigations were closed when he resigned from his position. headquarters last week, as soon as Trump appointed him, because the commission was left without power over lawmakers.
This same commission refused on Wednesday to make public the report of its investigations, but pressure against it had intensified and doubts had increased as to the possibility that the Senate would validate its nomination.
Trump’s future cabinet, which must be authorized by the Upper House, still has key positions untouched by his second term such as that of Secretary of the Treasury, in addition to others such as representatives of Labor or Agriculture.
