Trump suffers cold dose of reality with Gaetz failure, but learned lessons are questionable
Trumpland with Alex Wagner
NBC News
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🗓️ 22 November 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump has now moved on to his second choice for Attorney General. Today, Trump's first |
| 0:05.8 | choice for the job, former Congressman Matt Gates, officially withdrew from consideration |
| 0:10.6 | following a wave of controversy over allegations at Gates had sex with an underage girl |
| 0:15.5 | and paid two other young women also for sex. Allegations he denies. Given this, Trump today had to give up on |
| 0:23.3 | his choice of a MAGA loyalist from Florida who is a fixture on Fox News and will instead be nominating |
| 0:29.8 | a MAGA loyalist from Florida who is a fixture on Fox News. Trump has chosen former Florida |
| 0:36.4 | Attorney General Pam Bondi to be his next pick for United |
| 0:40.2 | States Attorney General. You may remember Ms. Bondi from her many guest appearances on the |
| 0:45.1 | political reality show that Donald Trump has forced us all to live in. In 2013, when Bondi was |
| 0:50.9 | still Attorney General of Florida, she had reportedly been looking into allegations |
| 0:55.2 | of fraud at Trump's Sham University. But then Trump's sham charity gave an illegal $25,000 donation |
| 1:04.1 | to a PAC supporting Pam Bondi. And Pam Bondi suddenly decided she wasn't interested in investigating Trump University anymore. |
| 1:14.2 | Years later, both Trump's university and his charity would be shut down after being investigated by |
| 1:20.0 | attorneys general who didn't receive any large, conspicuous donations from Donald Trump. |
| 1:26.6 | You may also remember Pam Bondi from her role as part of Trump's defense team in his first |
| 1:31.0 | impeachment trial, where she demonstrated her skills as a litigator in front of the United |
| 1:36.1 | States Senate. |
| 1:39.0 | He remained on the board until April of 2019. |
| 1:45.0 | Nailed it. But like any good reality TV star, you probably remember Pam Bondi best from her many, |
| 2:08.3 | many, many appearances on television, and specifically Fox News television. Miss Bondi even filled in as a guest |
| 2:15.3 | host on Fox three times while she was still the sitting |
| 2:19.3 | attorney general of Florida. |
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