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Summary

Pamela Jo Bondi (born November 17, 1965) is an American attorney, lobbyist, and politician. A member of the Republican Party, she served as Florida attorney general from 2011 to 2019, the first woman elected to the office.

In 2020, Bondi was one of President Donald Trump’s defense lawyers during his first impeachment trial. By 2024, she led the legal arm of the Trump-aligned America First Policy Institute. On November 21, 2024, president-elect Trump announced she would be nominated for United States attorney general after previous nominee Matt Gaetz withdrew.

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Who is Pam Bondi, Trump’s nominee for attorney general?
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Bondi is a chair at America First Policy Institute, a conservative think tank founded by former Trump staff members, leading its legal arm. She has also served on Trump’s opioid and drug abuse commission.

Bondi, a longtime Trump ally, was part of his legal team during his first impeachment trial and when it made false claims that the 2020 election had been stolen from him due to voter fraud.

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About

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Pam Bondi 1A graduate of the University of Florida and Stetson Law School. Pam served as a front-line prosecutor for the past 18 years.

As an Assistant State Attorney, Pam served under five State Attorneys in the 13th Judicial Circuit, a department of more than 100 attorneys.

Pam’s investigative and courtroom experience came into play with nationally celebrated cases, including putting Adam Davis on death row for the murder of Vicky Robinson and convicting Melvin Givens of first degree murder for the stabbing death of local NBC-News Producer Danielle Cipriani.

Pam regularly traveled to Tallahassee to oppose the parole of convicted murderers and rapists.

Pam served as Felony Bureau Chief and a key member of internal homicide, vehicular homicide, and DUI manslaughter committees. She also sat on the Executive Committee responsible for budget, personnel and legal strategies.

Pam has served as the Vice Chair of the Florida Bar Grievance Committee, and in Tampa Bay United Way, the Children’s Board, Junior League, and on the University of Florida Gator Club Board of Directors.

Pam received the Tampa Bay Review’s 2001 “Lawyers of Distinction” and has also received the Italian “Woman of Excellence in Government” award.

A native of Tampa, Pam is a fourth generation Floridian, and hails from a family dedicated to service, including three generations of educators.

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Politics

Attorney General of Florida

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Elections
Bondi ran for Florida attorney general in the 2010 election, facing off against former state representative Holly Benson and lieutenant governor Jeff Kottkamp in the Republican primary. In a competitive field, Bondi notably received the support of former governor of Alaska Sarah Palin. The Palm Beach Post credited her surge in support in the primary to her media-savviness, including regular appearances on Fox News and her public association with Sean Hannity.

Polling conducted by Mason Dixon in August 2010 found her leading both Benson and Kottkamp in the primary. She ultimately won the primary with 37.89% of the vote.[9] In the general election, she faced Democratic nominee Dan Gelber, a former prosecutor who spent 10 years in the state legislature. She ultimately comfortably defeated Gelber to become the state’s first female attorney general.

Bondi was re-elected in November 2014, receiving 55% of the vote. Her Democratic challenger George Sheldon, the former acting commissioner of the Administration for Children and Families, received 42%.

Tenure
Bondi was the lead attorney general in an unsuccessful lawsuit seeking to overturn the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (known as Obamacare) in Florida et al v. United States Department of Health and Human Services. In the lawsuit the State of Florida and 26 other states argued that the individual mandate provision of the ACA violates the United States Constitution.

Bondi expressed her opposition to medical marijuana.

In 2016, Bondi gave a speech at the Republican National Convention, during which she led “Lock her up” chants directed at the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

In 2018, Bondi joined with 19 other Republican-led states in a lawsuit to overturn the ACA’s bans on health insurance companies charging people with pre-existing conditions higher premiums or denying them coverage outright.

Bondi defended Amendment 2, a 2008 amendment to the Florida Constitution banning same-sex marriage, against legal challenges on behalf of the state. Bondi claimed that these actions did not reflect her opinions on same-sex marriage, but were out of respect for the constitution. Following the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting in June 2016, Bondi was interviewed by CNN reporter Anderson Cooper, who said that Bondi’s expression of support for the LGBT community was at odds with her past record. Cooper said that Bondi was “either mistaken or not telling the truth,” while Bondi accused Cooper of fomenting “anger and hate.”

In August 2018, while still serving as Florida attorney general, Bondi co-hosted The Five on Fox News three days in a row while also appearing on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show. Fox News claimed that the Florida Commission on Ethics had approved Bondi’s appearance on the program; however, the spokeswoman for the commission denied that, telling the Tampa Bay Times that no decision was made by the commission and that the commission’s general counsel did not make a determination whether or not Bondi’s appearance as a host violated the Florida Code of Ethics. The Tampa Bay Times described it as “unprecedented” for a sitting elected official to host a TV show.

In nominating her to be U.S. attorney general, Trump said that, as Florida’s attorney general, she had “worked to stop the trafficking of deadly drugs, and reduce the tragedy of Fentanyl Overdose Deaths, which have destroyed many families across our Country,” and that she had done “an incredible job”. In fact, however, Florida’s age-adjusted rate of “deaths from drug poisoning” nearly doubled during her term, from 13.7 per 100,000 residents in 2011 to 25.1 when she left office in 2019.

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Pamela Jo Bondi (/ˈbɒndi/ BON-dee; born November 17, 1965)[2] is an American attorney and politician who has served as the 87th United States attorney general since 2025. A member of the Republican Party, she served as the 37th attorney general of Florida from 2011 to 2019.

Born and raised in the Tampa Bay area, Bondi graduated from the University of Florida and Stetson Law School. She served as an assistant state attorney in Hillsborough County, Florida, from 1994 to 2009. In 2010, Bondi was elected attorney general of Florida, becoming the first woman to serve in the position. She was re-elected in 2014, becoming the first Republican to win a second term. She was term-limited in 2018, and was succeeded by fellow Republican Ashley Moody.

In 2020, Bondi was one of President Donald Trump‘s defense lawyers during his first impeachment trial. By 2024, she led the legal arm of the Trump-aligned America First Policy Institute. On November 21, 2024, President-elect Trump announced his intention to nominate Bondi for U.S. attorney general after former congressman Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in a 54–46 vote on February 4, 2025, and sworn in the next day.

Early life and education

Bondi[3] was born on November 17, 1965,[4] the daughter of Joseph C. Bondi Jr. and Patsy Loretta Bondi (née Hammer).[5][6] Her hometown is Temple Terrace, Florida.[7] Her father was a city council member and then mayor of Temple Terrace. She is a graduate of C. Leon King High School in Tampa. She is of Italian and German descent.[4] Bondi received a BA in criminal justice from the University of Florida in 1987, and a JD from Stetson University College of Law in 1990.[8][9][10] She was a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority as an undergraduate student.[8] Bondi was admitted to the Florida Bar on June 24, 1991.[10]

Early career

Bondi was a prosecutor and spokeswoman in Hillsborough County, Florida, where she was an assistant state attorney.[11] Bondi prosecuted former Major League Baseball player Dwight Gooden in 2006 for violating the terms of his probation and for substance abuse.[12][13] In 2007, Bondi also prosecuted the defendants in Martin Anderson’s death.[14]

Florida attorney general (2011–2019)

Elections

Bondi ran in the 2010 Florida attorney general election, facing off against former state representative Holly Benson and lieutenant governor Jeff Kottkamp in the Republican primary.[1] During the primary, Bondi was endorsed by former governor of Alaska Sarah Palin.[15]

Polling conducted by Mason-Dixon in August 2010 found her leading both Benson and Kottkamp in the primary. She ultimately won the primary with 37.89% of the vote.[16] In the general election, she faced Democratic nominee Dan Gelber, a former prosecutor who spent 10 years in the state legislature.[17] She defeated Gelber to become the state’s first female attorney general.[18][19]

Bondi was re-elected in November 2014, receiving 55% of the vote. Her Democratic challenger George Sheldon, the former acting commissioner of the Administration for Children and Families, received 42%.[20]

Tenure

Bondi was the lead attorney general in an unsuccessful lawsuit seeking to overturn the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) in Florida et al v. United States Department of Health and Human Services. In the lawsuit the state of Florida and 26 other states argued that the individual mandate provision of the ACA violates the United States Constitution.[21]

In 2011, Bondi pressured two attorneys to resign who were investigating Lender Processing Services, a financial services company now known as Black Knight, following the robosigning scandal, as part of their work for Florida’s Economic Crime Division.[22][23] In 2013, Bondi persuaded Governor Rick Scott to postpone a scheduled execution because it conflicted with a fundraising event.[24] After questions were raised in the media, Bondi apologized for moving the execution date.[25][26]

Bondi with Florida governor Rick Scott in 2011

Also in 2013, Bondi expressed her opposition to medical marijuana.[27][28] In 2018, Bondi joined with 19 other Republican-led states in a lawsuit to overturn the ACA’s bans on health insurance companies charging people with pre-existing conditions higher premiums or denying them coverage outright.[29]

Bondi defended Amendment 2, a 2008 amendment to the Florida Constitution banning same-sex marriage, against legal challenges on behalf of the state. Bondi said that these actions did not reflect her opinions on same-sex marriage, but were out of respect for the constitution.[30] Following the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting in June 2016, Bondi was interviewed by CNN reporter Anderson Cooper, who said that Bondi’s expression of support for the LGBT community was at odds with her past record.[30][31][32]

In August 2018, while still serving as Florida attorney general, Bondi co-hosted The Five on Fox News three days in a row while also appearing on Sean Hannity‘s Fox News show.[33] Fox News claimed that the Florida Commission on Ethics had approved Bondi’s appearance on the program; however, the spokeswoman for the commission denied that, telling the Tampa Bay Times that no decision was made by the commission and that the commission’s general counsel did not make a determination whether or not Bondi’s appearance as a host violated the Florida Code of Ethics. The Tampa Bay Times described it as “unprecedented” for a sitting elected official to host a TV show.[33]

Trump donation to Bondi PAC

In 2013, Bondi received scrutiny following a campaign donation from Donald Trump.[34] Prior to the donation, Bondi had received at least 22 fraud complaints regarding Trump University. A spokesperson for Bondi announced that her office was considering joining a lawsuit initiated by Eric Schneiderman, the attorney general of New York, regarding potential tax fraud charges against Trump.[35][36] Four days later, And Justice for All, a political action committee established by Bondi to support her re-election, received a $25,000 donation from the Donald J. Trump Foundation. Bondi subsequently declined to join the lawsuit against Trump University. Both Bondi and Trump have defended the propriety of the donation.[37][38]

In 2016, after Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service regarding the donation, the Trump Foundation stated that it had been made in error, intending for the donation to go to Bondi’s unrelated Kansas non-profit Justice for All.[39][40] In June 2016, as Bondi was facing renewed criticism over the issue, her spokesman said that Bondi had solicited the donation directly from Trump several weeks before her office announced it was considering joining the lawsuit.[36][41] On March 14, 2016, Bondi endorsed Trump in the 2016 Florida Republican presidential primary, saying she had been friends with him for many years.[42][43] In June 2016, a spokesperson for Governor Rick Scott stated that the state’s ethics commission was looking into the matter.[44]

In September 2016, the IRS determined that the donation to Bondi’s PAC violated laws against political contributions from nonprofit organizations, and ordered Trump to pay a fine for the contribution. Trump was also required to reimburse the foundation for the sum that had been donated to Bondi.[45] Neither Bondi nor her PAC were fined or criminally charged. In November 2019, Trump was ordered by a New York state court to close down the foundation and pay $2 million in damages for misusing it, including the illegal donation to Bondi.[46]

Return to private life

Lobbying work

In 2019, after her final term as Florida attorney general, Bondi was hired by Ballard Partners and she began working as a registered foreign agent and lobbyist for Qatar.[47] Her work with Qatar was related to anti-human-trafficking efforts in advance of the 2022 FIFA World Cup.[48][49] She left the Qatari project in 2019 to work in a temporary position for the White House Counsel for President Trump’s first impeachment proceedings.[48]

As a partner at Ballard Partners, she also became a lobbyist for KGL KSCC, a company incorporated in Kuwait.[50] Bondi was lobbying for the Kuwaiti company to help with a case of claimed extortion.[51] During her time at Ballard Partners, Bondi lobbied for for-profit prison operator GEO Group, Amazon, Uber, General Motors, the Florida Sheriffs Association and others.[52]

Trump’s first impeachment proceedings

In November 2019, she was hired by the first Trump administration to help the White House during Trump’s first impeachment proceedings.[53][54] Her position was described the following month as being to “attack the process” of the impeachment inquiry.[55] On January 17, 2020, Bondi was named as part of Trump’s defense team for the Senate impeachment trial.[56]

During the course of the impeachment trial, Bondi made allegations that former vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter were involved in corruption in Ukraine, stemming from the younger Biden’s position on the board of Burisma Holdings.[57] It was also revealed that Lev Parnas, a businessman with close ties to Rudy Giuliani and Ukraine, had several meetings with Bondi in 2018 while she was the Florida attorney general, and after she left office in 2019.[58][59]

2020 presidential election

Bondi with Louisiana Congressman Mike Johnson and Missouri attorney general Eric Schmitt in 2022

Bondi spoke in support of Trump at the 2020 Republican National Convention.[60] Bondi became a vocal supporter of Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 defeat.[61] While ballots were being counted in the 2020 United States presidential election, Bondi supported Trump’s false claim that there was large-scale voter fraud in Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.[62][63] In an appearance on Fox News on November 5, 2020, host Steve Doocy challenged Bondi to provide evidence for her claims of fraud. She said “We know that ballots have been dumped.”[64] Bondi later claimed that Trump had won Pennsylvania, despite votes there still being counted, with his opponent Joe Biden ultimately winning the state.[63]

Board of trustees and advocacy work

During the following lame-duck session, Trump appointed Bondi to the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.[65] The Palm Beach Post described the appointment as a reward for her loyalty to Trump.[66] By 2024, Bondi led the legal arm of the Trump-aligned America First Policy Institute, a nonprofit that planned policies for a potential second Trump presidency. She worked to file voting lawsuits in battleground states relating to the 2024 presidential election.[67]

United States attorney general (2025–present)

Nomination and confirmation

On November 21, 2024, president-elect Trump announced Bondi would be nominated for United States attorney general, after the withdrawal of Matt Gaetz for that position.[68][69][70] There were two hearings at the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, one on January 15, 2025, and the second one on January 16. Bondi was questioned by Democratic Senators over her past work as a lobbyist, the 2020 presidential election results, her relationship with Trump, and her thoughts about TikTok.[71][72][73]

On January 29, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved her nomination in a party-line 12–10 vote.[74] She was confirmed in a 54–46 Senate vote on February 4.[75] The only Democratic senator who voted “aye” was Senator John Fetterman.[76][77][78] Bondi disclosed to the Senate Judiciary committee and the designated ethics official at the U.S. Department of Justice the compensation for her consulting services to Renatus Advisors LLC of Puerto Rico in shares and stock warrants for the merger of Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC) and Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT), which were in turn converted to shares and warrants of DJT on the day of the merger. The compensation for the consulting services totaled $2,969,563.[79]

Tenure

President Trump swears in Bondi as attorney general; February 5, 2025.

On February 5, 2025, Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas swore Bondi into office as the 87th attorney general.[80][81] On Bondi’s first day in office, she shut down the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force,[82] shut down the DOJ’s Task Force KleptoCapture,[83] and cut back enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.[82] Bondi has largely taken an implementation role as attorney general, with key decisions being made by Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and other White House officials.[84]

In March 2025, Bondi announced the establishment of the Joint Task Force October 7 (JTF 10-7) to seek justice for victims of the October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel by Hamas, which killed approximately 1,200 people, including 47 U.S. citizens, and saw about 250 others abducted, including eight Americans. The task force was created to focus on prosecuting the perpetrators of the attack, pursuing charges against Hamas leadership, and targeting individuals and entities providing support or financing to Hamas, related Iranian proxies, and affiliates.[85][86][87]

Following the United States government group chat leak in March 2025, Bondi indicated that the leak would not be investigated, saying that the information shared was not classified.[88]

In April 2025, Bondi directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in the Luigi Mangione case.[89] In May, it was reported that Bondi sold at least $1 million worth of shares in Trump Media on “Liberation Day“.[90] In September 2025, in response to the killing of Iryna Zarutska, Bondi said she would seek the death penalty for the perpetrator and that he would “never again see the light of day as a free man”.[91]

On October 7, 2025, Bondi testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in what NPR described as a “more than four-hour hearing… that often turned combative.”[92] Democrats accused Bondi of politicizing the Justice Department, while Republicans defended her actions and Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley commended her for “resetting priorities.”[93] Bondi called the Arctic Frost investigation a “historic betrayal of public trust”[94] and said it represented “an unconstitutional, undemocratic abuse of power.”[95][96]

Immigration and alleged drug enforcement

U.S.–Mexico interagency meeting in Washington, D.C., February 27, 2025

In March 2025, Chief Judge James Boasberg of the federal district court in D.C. issued an order to temporarily block the Trump administration from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, and also verbally ordered for the deportation flights “to be returned to the United States”, to be “complied with immediately”; however, the Trump administration completed the deportations anyway, with Bondi and other Justice Department officials later arguing in a March 17 legal filing that “an oral directive is not enforceable as an injunction“.[97][98] Bondi and other Justice Department officials then submitted a March 18 legal filing stating that regarding certain details about the deportation flights requested by Judge Boasberg, “there is no justification to order the provision of additional information, and that doing so would be inappropriate”.[99] During a media interview on March 19, Bondi said regarding Boasberg: “this judge has no right to ask those questions” regarding details about the deportation flights, and has “no power” to order the Trump administration to stop the deportation flights, as Bondi declared that judges are “meddling in our government”.[100]
In April 2025, Bondi said that fentanyl seizures in the first 100 days of Trump’s second term as president had saved 21 million lives. Two days later, she increased this estimate to 119 million. Later that week during a cabinet meeting where she praised Trump and said that his first 100 days “far exceeded that of any other presidency in this country”, she said that during the same period, DOJ agencies had seized

“3,400 kilos of fentanyl…which saved—are you ready for this, media?—258 million lives”.

These statistics were met with skepticism given that only around 70,000 fentanyl deaths occur in the U.S. each year and the claim of lives saved represents 75% of the U.S. population.[101][102]

Bondi with Secretary Sean Duffy and Congressman Byron Donalds, July 31, 2025

In August 2025, Bondi announced on Twitter that the Department of Justice and the State Department were increasing the reward to $50 million for Nicolás Maduro, accusing the Venezuelan president of collaborating with foreign terrorist organizations, such as Tren de Aragua, the Sinaloa Cartel, and the Cartel of the Suns, to bring deadly violence to the United States.[103] Maduro was previously indicted by the first Trump administration in 2020, along with other Venezuelan officials and former Colombian FARC members, for what it described as “narco-terrorism”: the trafficking of cocaine to the United States to wage a health war on its citizens.[104][105][106] The reward was originally set at $15 million in March 2020 before being raised to $25 million by the Biden administration in January 2025.[107][108]

In a Fox News interview, Bondi stated that the DOJ had seized approximately $700 million in assets linked to Maduro. The assets allegedly included multiple luxury homes in Florida, a mansion in the Dominican Republic, private jets, vehicles, a horse farm, jewelry, and large sums of cash.[109] Bondi described Maduro’s government as an “organized crime operation” that continued to function despite the seizures.[110]

Hate speech

In April 2025, she held a task force meeting on anti-Christian bias.[111] The task force has met once, identifying areas in which the Biden administration had allegedly discriminated against Christians, including foreign service members who homeschooled their children against local laws, and an active duty member who refused the COVID vaccine.[112][113] Bondi was sent a letter by a number of Christian organizations who oppose the creation of the task force.[114]

In September 2025, in the aftermath of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Bondi said, “We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech.” Her comments were criticized across the political spectrum, and the next day she clarified that she was referring to hate speech involving threats of violence.[115][116][117][118]

Voter fraud

The Department of Justice under Bondi has focused on addressing alleged voter fraud. Since 2025, at the direction of the Attorney General, forty US states have been requested by the Department of Justice to share citizen voter data, for the purposes of reviewing state compliance with election laws.[119] States have continued to push back against these requests. The federal government’s lawsuit in California to compel the Secretary of State to release the voter rolls was dismissed in January 2026.[120] Judges have ruled in Georgia, Oregon and Michigan to dismiss the federal government’s lawsuits given a lack of evidence or support for the request.[121][122]

In a similar vein, in January 2026 during protests against ICE in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Bondi sent a letter requesting current governor Tim Walz share the state’s voter rolls, including information on individuals who receive public assistance in the state, claiming it will be beneficial for ICE to perform immigration enforcement in the state.[123][124] In early February 2026, an FBI raid was conducted on a Fulton County election office after a judge ruled the Attorney General’s written demand for voter rolls in the state was unsubstantiated.[125][126] The seizures occurred after a judge dismissed the federal government’s request for voter rolls. Bondi continued to publicly state the importance of investigating election fraud.[127][128]

Epstein files

Main article: Epstein files
President Trump, Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel (far right) in a press conference on crime in Washington, D.C. in August 2025

In late February 2025, a number of files related to Jeffrey Epstein were released, heavily redacted and offering little new information. Bondi was criticized for her handling of the release, with commentators on the right and left labeling the move a political stunt rather than a genuine effort at transparency.[129][130] Arwa Mahdawi, writing for The Guardian, derided the release as “a lot of redacted nothing”.[131]

In July 2025, the Department of Justice and the FBI wrote a memo saying there was no evidence that a supposed list of Epstein’s clients existed.[132] Previously in February 2025, Fox News journalist John Roberts had asked Bondi if the Justice Department would be publishing “the list of Jeffrey Epstein’s clients”, to which Bondi responded: “It’s sitting on my desk right now to review. That’s been a directive by President Trump. I’m reviewing that.”[133][134] Bondi also previously claimed there were “tens of thousands of videos” showing Epstein “with children or child porn,” a claim later walked back by FBI Director Kash Patel.[133] The contradictions drew criticism from some figures in the MAGA movement.[135][136] Following the controversy, deputy director of the FBI Dan Bongino considered resigning from his position due to his disagreement with Bondi over how the Justice Department handled the announcement of its decision not to release further records related to Epstein.[137][138] President Trump defended Bondi, posting on Truth Social that she was doing “a FANTASTIC JOB” in her role. According to CNN, “Privately, Trump has also doubled down on his support for Bondi.”[139] The Wall Street Journal later reported that, during a briefing on the Justice Department’s review of the files in May, Bondi informed Trump that his name was included among the documents.[140][141]

After being repeatedly criticized for allegedly weaponizing the Department of Justice in the Epstein case, violating the rights of victims set by the Epstein Files Transparency Act (including releasing some victims’ full names and nude photographs)[142] and intentionally obscuring the names of co-conspirators in the files, Bondi was summoned for a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on February 11, 2026. The hearing was described by news outlets as a “clash” between Bondi and Democratic representatives, with the notable exception of Republican representative Thomas Massie, who criticized Bondi and the DOJ for redaction failures. During the hearing, Bondi was criticized for having a “burn book” of research on lawmakers and for making personal insults against them, such as calling Representative Massie a “failed politician” or Representative Jamie Raskin a “washed up, loser lawyer”.[143][144][145][146]

During the hearing, when Bondi was asked how many of Epstein’s accomplices she has indicted, Bondi stated, “The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000 and the Nasdaq smashing records. Americans’ 401Ks and retirements are booming. That’s what we should be talking about.”[147][148] This comment received significant criticism with some critics stating that, “Effectively declaring ‘Money is all that matters!’ is definitely not going to make the focus on elite, wealthy men with ties to an accused child sex trafficker go away.”[149][150][151]

Ahead of the hearing, survivors of Epstein’s abuse published an open letter addressed to Bondi containing fifteen questions regarding the handling of the files.[152] Eight of the Epstein crime victims were present during the hearing, multiple of whom have voiced their disappointment with Bondi, and the hearing in general.[153]

In a February 2025 memo, Bondi stated the Department was “following through on President Trump’s commitment to transparency and lifting the veil on the disgusting actions of Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators.”[154] On February 14, 2026, Bondi stated that all the materials required to be released under the Epstein Transparency Act had been released to the public.[155][156] Bondi stated the department declined to publish the remaining files, citing client attorney privileges.[157][158] Bondi refused to answer requests from lawmakers on whether the department is currently investigating alleged co-conspirators named in the documents, but according to an internal memo, the Department of Justice closed any ongoing investigations in July 2025.[159][160][161]

Personal life

Bondi’s first voter registration was with the Democratic Party in 1984; she changed her registration to Republican in 2000.[1] In a 2010 interview, Bondi said she had “always been conservative”.[1] Bondi married Garret Barnes in 1990; the couple divorced after 22 months of marriage. In 1996, Bondi married Scott Fitzgerald; they divorced in 2002.[162] She was engaged to Greg Henderson in 2012.[163] Since 2017, she has been in a relationship with John Wakefield.[164] Her younger brother, Bradley Bondi, is a lawyer.[165] In October 2025, a man with an existing criminal record was arrested and charged with offering a $45,000 bounty to kill Bondi. The suspect posted on TikTok that he wanted Bondi “dead or alive” but “preferably dead”.[166][167]

Electoral history

2010 Florida Attorney General election, Republican primary[168]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
RepublicanPam Bondi 459,022 37.89% N/A
RepublicanJeff Kottkamp397,78132.84%N/A
RepublicanHolly Benson354,57329.27%N/A
Majority61,2415.05%N/A
Turnout1,211,376
2010 Florida Attorney General election, General election[169]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
RepublicanPam Bondi 2,882,868 54.77% +2.08%
DemocraticDan Gelber2,181,37741.44%−5.87%
IndependentJim Lewis199,1473.78%N/A
Majority701,49113.33%+7.95%
Turnout5,263,392
2014 Florida Attorney General election, General election[170]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
RepublicanPam Bondi 3,222,524 55.09% +0.32%
DemocraticGeorge Sheldon2,457,35742.01%+0.57%
LibertarianBill Wohlsifer169,3942.90%N/A
Majority765,20713.08%−0.25%
Turnout5,849,235

See also

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