Pam Bondi to be next Attorney General after Gaetz drops out: Understanding the difference between productive trust and empty loyalty
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The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 22 November 2024
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Summary
Matt Gaetz has withdrawn from his nomination for attorney general. In his place, Trump has nominated former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi for the cabinet position. So, who is Pam Bondi, and will her path to confirmation be any simpler than that of Gaetz? We discuss the new candidate and what we can learn from the news about selecting the people in your inner circle whom you trust.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, November the 22nd, 2024. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins |
| 0:08.5 | with the Denison Forum, narrating today's daily article written by Dr. Ryan Denison. Former |
| 0:15.6 | Representative Matt Gates was always going to be the most difficult of President-elect Donald |
| 0:20.5 | Trump's cabinet |
| 0:21.3 | selections to get through the Senate confirmation process. He was nominated under a shroud |
| 0:26.4 | of investigations by the Department of Justice in 2020 and, more recently, the House Ethics |
| 0:31.9 | Committee on accusations of illicit drug use, paying for sex, including sex with a minor, |
| 0:37.4 | and obstruction of government |
| 0:39.0 | investigations. Despite the charges being dropped in the Department of Justice case and the House |
| 0:44.2 | investigation still ongoing, his conduct gave reason to doubt his worthiness to be the government's |
| 0:49.9 | top attorney. There was some speculation that his nomination was part of why Trump broached the topic of |
| 0:55.2 | recess appointments last week. Yet, Gates was in Washington on Thursday morning, working with |
| 1:00.7 | Vice President-elect J.D. Vance to build support for his approval. Eventually, however, it became |
| 1:06.8 | clear that such approval wasn't coming. After the race in Pennsylvania was finally called in |
| 1:11.4 | favor of Republican Dave McCormick, the GOP will have a 53-seat majority in the Senate with only 50 |
| 1:18.0 | votes needed for Trump's nominations to be approved. Thursday's conversations confirmed that |
| 1:22.9 | at least four Republicans were already firm in their opposition, with several more inclined to vote no. |
| 1:29.3 | Given that no Democrats were expected to vote in Gates' favor, that left intervention for Trump |
| 1:34.5 | as his only viable path to the position. Based with that reality, Gates chose to withdraw from |
| 1:40.9 | consideration posting on X that, quote, while the momentum was strong, it is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction |
| 1:48.9 | to the critical work of the Trump-Vant's transition. |
| 1:52.1 | There is no time to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington scuffle, |
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