When millions of Americans voted for Donald Trump, they knew he'd be different. And he is. He's a tough, no nonsense outsider who can't be bought or intimidated. Now that Congressman Matt Gaetz or former Congressman Matt Gaetz has withdrawn his [00:00:20] appointment as the attorney general under Donald Trump's upcoming administration, Trump has named someone else as his pick for attorney general, and that individual is a former Florida attorney general, Pam Bondi. [00:00:36] Now, he announced this on Truth Social, writing that Pam was a prosecutor for nearly 20 years, where she was very tough on violent criminals and made the streets safe for Florida families. Then, as Florida's first female attorney general, she worked to stop the trafficking of deadly drugs and reduce the tragedy of fentanyl overdose deaths, [00:00:56] which have destroyed many families across our country. She did an incredible job that I asked her. She did such an incredible job that I asked her to serve on our Opioid and Drug Abuse Commission. During my first term, we saved many lives, he continues. [00:01:11] For too long, the Partizan Department of Justice has been weaponized against me and other Republicans. Not anymore. Pam will refocus the DOJ to its intended purpose of fighting crime and making America safe again. I have known Pam for many years. [00:01:28] She is smart and tough, and is an America First fighter who will do a terrific job as attorney general. So what was interesting in his statement was the fact that he said that she, you know, she will take the DOJ and direct its attention back [00:01:45] to what it should be focusing on, which is keeping the country safe. I'm glad he wrote that. Rather than retaliate against my political opponents, which is something that many are afraid that he's going to spend his time doing while he's in the white House. But Pam Bondi, make no mistake about it, hard core right winger, you know, [00:02:04] has been a supporter of Donald Trump's. She spoke at the Republican National Convention in support of Donald Trump in 2016. And, you know, we'll see how this goes. But my prediction is that she'll very likely breeze through the Senate confirmation process. [00:02:20] Yeah. Well, probably. So what's the number one reason that he's picking Pam Bondi? Because she's a loyalist. She has made it clear since basically Trump got started in the first term that she'll do anything Donald Trump says. And that's what he loves the most. [00:02:35] She's also one of the people who showed up at his criminal trial. Remember those clowns that were in the back like, oh, we would like to curry favor with the with the candidate. We're here. We love this criminal. Oh, thank you for committing financial fraud. And that's actually going to be relevant here. [00:02:52] Because when you look into Pam Bondi, there's some controversies which we'll talk about in a sec. But what's her agenda? And the Associated Press says to roll back civil rights. Oh, great. Okay. And corporate enforcement like rules [00:03:09] and laws against corporate robberies. They're going to roll those back so that corporations can rob us more. Wow. I really look forward to to to that tell you about the controversies in a second. So apparently in 2013, one of the things that happened was, you know, while she was [00:03:29] the attorney general of Florida, she had accepted a $25,000 donation from Trump at a time when she was considering pursuing prosecution against Trump for Trump University. Ultimately, after receiving the $25,000 donation, [00:03:45] she decided against pursuing charges. Yeah, she's a swamp. So like, Trump gave her $25,000 and she's like, oh, I'll make your criminal charges go away. I mean, it's the height of corruption. It's really pathetic. So and Trump through Trump University. It wasn't a real university. [00:04:00] He ended up defrauding students or people who thought that they were paying for something worthwhile. And he did face civil suits over that and was ordered to pay tens of millions of dollars as a result. Well, it's actually a little bit worse than that because so was Pam Bondi, right? [00:04:16] Maybe she's not corrupt. Maybe the $25,000 from Trump was a coincidence, but she had already decided that Trump University was one of the best colleges. I mean, she's thinking, should I send my kids to Harvard, Yale or Trump? And well, no. As it turns out, it wasn't just that he was found liable. [00:04:34] Donald Trump agreed to a settlement where he confessed that it was a fake university and paid a $25 million fine. So Pam Bondi knew that it was a fake university. But because of the bribe and yes, these bribes are legal in America [00:04:53] because the legalized bribe that she got, she's like, oh, that's one of my donors. I don't want my donor going to jail. I want my donor giving me more bribes. So she let Trump go on that. That was the beginning of their, you know, love affair politically, [00:05:08] where she would do him any favors and he would go, good girl. I like her. Pam Bondi is very strong in corruption, and we're going to use her to make sure that corporations can do more corruption. Okay. And then and you minorities, you're going to have less rights because Pam Bondi is very strong on that. [00:05:26] And by the way, in 2016, the IRS did determine that that $25,000 contribution to Bondi was illegal. And so he had to pay a fine as a result of that. There were damages paid. [00:05:41] So like like normally campaign contributions is 100 ways to get it to a corrupt politician. Right. And do it legally. But Trump, of course, being incompetent even at corruption, just gave it to her illegally. So this is. Look. But that's what America voted for. They know they don't. [00:05:58] A lot of the people that voted for Trump have no idea that he's this corrupt. I know, it's amazing, but why? I mean, look, the Democrats focus on all the democracy and I agree. Right. And then, oh, he's a bad guy. He's a bad guy. I didn't disagree with that strategy. I thought that was a poor strategy. Right. But they left alone the fact that he's massively corrupt. [00:06:16] Why? Because the Democrats are also corrupt. So they didn't want to open up that can of worms. So one more thing about Pam Bondi. She's had a couple of different controversies. One of them, though, is related to campaign finance. So they were set to execute someone in Florida and she asked [00:06:34] that it be moved by three weeks. They said, oh, that's not bad. The guy's going to get three more weeks of life. You know, I'm against the death penalty. I don't know who he is. Probably did something I don't know. Right. But okay. No, she moved it because she had a campaign fundraiser and then people found out and then she apologized. [00:06:50] She's like, yeah, I know, but I had to go raise a lot of bribes because I was going to do favors for those guys. So I wanted to delay killing that guy so we can kill him later after I take my bribes. So, Pam Bondi's number one qualification is she will do anything for Donald Trump, [00:07:07] for her own career advancement and for money. So Trump loves that. So Anna is probably right that she'll easily get confirmed because to be honest, like all the senators are the same. She's the standard Republican. Yeah she is. She's a standard Republican. Like all of those controversies are nothing. [00:07:22] They're nothing burgers in the context of our corrupt political system. And and for the Democrats, they could, you know, bring all these things up, but then they'd have to bring up corruption. And that's awkward because then she could say, hey, I took 25,000 from Donald Trump. [00:07:38] How about the 250,000 you took from the drug companies? How about the 2.5 million you took from AIPAC? How about the 1.5 million took from the oil companies? On and on and on. She was on a war path in regard to Hunter Biden serving on the board of Burisma and the corruption involved in that. [00:07:54] And so we'll see how that confirmation hearing plays out. But again, I would put my money on her easily getting through that process and being the attorney general under Donald Trump. Yeah. Last couple of things here. She also was one of the attorney generals that sued to end the Affordable Care Act. [00:08:12] So she got her way. You would all be blocked from getting health insurance if you have any preexisting condition, which is almost all of us, because why she wanted to serve the drug company and the health insurance company, donors of hers. And so since she wanted those bribes, she thought, oh, yeah, [00:08:28] who cares if you get denied insurance? 68,000 Americans die every year because they don't have health insurance. And she's like, let's make it a larger number as long as I get bribed. But again, that's not going to hurt her at all in these hearings. It'll probably barely be brought up. The only thing that could possibly derail her is some sort of sex scandal, [00:08:48] because that's the only thing, apparently, that Washington and mainstream media care about. So she doesn't have a sex scandal, which is less likely since she's a woman. Let's be honest. - Hey, hey, women. - Women can get nasty too. You never know. But yeah. It's true. We've covered some stories. But if she doesn't have one of those things in her closet, she'll [00:09:05] sail by and all the senators will be like, oh, great, a corrupt attorney general. This is perfect, right? And she will be. She will do anything and everything Donald Trump will ask of her. She will not diverge from him. One inch, not one inch. [00:09:22] If he says, go arrest my the person running against me or anyone who dared to speak out against me. She'll say yes, sir right away, sir. Screw the Constitution. Let's go burn it together, sir. That's what she's known for. A sycophant who will do anything Trump orders her to do. [00:09:38] There's some drama with Pam Bondi. Oh. What happened? Sex scandal. Her documents obtained by Ken Klippert. No, not nothing titillating like that. Per documents obtained by Ken Klippenstein and Michael Tracy. She was a registered lobbyist for the government of Qatar. [00:09:57] - No. Interesting. - Yeah. She was apparently paid $115,000 a month. - Oh my God. - For her exceptional lobbying services. Oh, Jesus Christ. I told you. I mean, we just did this show. You guys saw it with your own eyes. [00:10:14] It's breaking news. It happens right in the middle of the show. And I told you her number one problem is corruption. She'll take money from anyone and do whatever the the person or the. Apparently the government tells her to do as long as they pay her. What are her views on Israel's war on Gaza? [00:10:33] - Curious about. - That? No, but. A lot of times Qatar and Saudi Arabia work with Israel. - Yeah, no, I know that. - Right. And so behind the scenes, while they they're the dictators who run those countries go we are so concerned about the Palestinians. They are our Muslim brothers. Please don't revolt against us within this country. [00:10:50] And as long as you're not revolting Israel, do whatever the hell you want. Okay. So anyways. That's interesting. And by the way, two former tit employees breaking that story. Okay. Last couple here Ikiteikou on YouTube members section said why is the USA so openly corrupt? [00:11:07] That's because it's only open on this show. If you watch cable news, they never talk about the corruption. Like literally almost never. When Chris Cuomo talked about it for one segment on News Nation, the smallest cable news outlet, it became like national news, like someone has on television [00:11:27] correctly pointed out corruption. That's crazy. What a controversy. What a scandal. It's because mainstream media are the liars who protect the lying politicians, and they are 100% part of the corruption. And look, to be fair to Bondi. She is a she was a registered lobbyist on behalf of Qatar, [00:11:46] and that is different from doing work on behalf of a foreign government and getting paid by a foreign government without disclosing it and without registering. So from what the what it appears at this moment, she did everything legally. Yeah. Okay. [00:12:01] And if Qatar wants something when she's the attorney general, she's going to give it to them because they paid her $115,000 a month. That door be revolving. Okay. - Like that's. - Oh, for sure. And if she does favors for them later, they'll give her [00:12:17] another $115,000 a month or more. Or maybe, like Jared Kushner, they'll just give her $2 billion like the Saudis did. Thanks for watching The Young Turks really appreciate it. Another way to show support is through YouTube memberships. You'll get to interact with us more. There's live chat emojis, badges. [00:12:33] You've got emojis of me Anna John Jr. So those are super fun. But you also get playback of our exclusive member only shows and specials right after they air. So all of that, all you got to do is click that join button right underneath the video. [00:12:49] Thank you.