Axelrod: Pam Bondi Is Someone Who’ll Be Responsive to Trump First and Not to Duties of DoJ

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AXELROD: “I think it was a good move to get Gaetz out of the nomination, because he clearly was going to crash and burn, and he shouldn't have been there in the first place. It was a horrific choice. Look, I think that, you know, my recollections of Pam Bondi were of leading the locker up chants at the 196 -- 19 -- I'm sorry, at the 2016 Republican convention and of being in every way a political actor on behalf of Donald Trump, both as attorney general and outside the office of attorney general, and then after she left the office of attorney general. So, he got he gets in her what he wants, which is he wants someone who will be responsive to him first, not the duties of the Constitution. He wants to have political control over the Justice Department, and she -- to Scott's point, I think she's fully -- fully, willing, able and capable of doing that, of putting a political functionary, who he trusts in that office. Now, whether the rest of the country feels comfortable about that, whether the senators do. We'll see. It is a very -- I think it's a very daunting proposition for those who care about the integrity of the Justice Department.”