Florida AG Defends Decision to Take Money From Trump
Pam Bondi
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi said she had no regrets about asking Donald Trump for money and no regrets about keeping the donation even after New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman had filed a lawsuit against Trump University, reports the Associated Press.
“If I had returned it, you would have reported ‘Bondi accepted a bribe, got caught and returned it,'” Bondi said. “That’s how the reporting goes. And so, no, there was nothing improper about it. So there was no reason to return it.”
Reporters Gary Fineout and Michael Biesecker write that Rep. Ted Deutch, a South Florida Democrat and member of the House Judiciary Committee, said in a statement that “Bondi’s murky answers only raise more questions” that should be looked into by federal prosecutors.
Bondi’s office said at the time of the donation that it was “reviewing” the New York lawsuit, but it never took any other action.
