Pam Bondi’s selection for US attorney general is giving Trump’s prior Justice Department appointees muted reassurance that it’s safe for them to return.
By replacing his first choice, Matt Gaetz, with another Trump loyalist—one with strong law enforcement bona fides—the president-elect appears to have relieved the traditional conservative lawyers who led DOJ in his prior term that they can resume service without as much risk to their reputations, said seven former Trump Justice Department officials.
Many of those officials were previously on the fence after Trump announced Gaetz as his intended nominee.
Bondi, the two-term Florida attorney general and former ...
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