Mike Benz, a former Trump State Department official and current executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, said he is “cautiously optimistic” about President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to serve as U.S. Attorney General, given Bondi’s shortcomings while she served as Florida’s chief legal officer.
On Thursday afternoon, Trump announced his nomination of Bondi as attorney general just hours after the president-elect’s initial choice, former Florida U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz, withdrew his nomination.
Benz said Bondi’s lack of reputation as Florida Attorney General for fighting back against certain policies and Republican-focused issues concerns him.
“I don’t know how I feel about Pam Bondi. I’d like to be able to say that I simply trust Trump’s intuition on these things…but at the same time, I have to say that I have been consistently disappointed by the Florida Attorney General level action in response to all of the activism,” Benz explained on Friday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.