Trump cabinet picks: Pam Bondi is Trump's new attorney-general ...

Updated Nov 22, 2024 – 1.09pm, first published at 6.59am

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President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday (Friday AEDT) named Pam Bondi, the former attorney-general of Florida, to be US attorney-general just hours after his other choice, Matt Gaetz, withdrew his name.

Bondi is a longtime Trump ally and was one of his lawyers during his first impeachment trial when he was accused – but not convicted– of abusing his power as he tried to condition US military assistance to Ukraine on that country investigating then-vice president Joe Biden.

Former Florida attorney-general Pam Bondi. 

She has been a chair at the America First Policy Institute, a think tank set up by former Trump administration staffers.

Bondi is from Tampa and spent more than 18 years as a prosecutor. She was Florida’s first female attorney-general.