Over the past decade or so, we have had to watch as a never ending train of Republicans queue up to lick Donald Trump's boots. But I think all of them could take notes from Senator Lindsey Graham, who, when he saw that Pam Bondi was going to be the second pick [00:00:17] for Trump's AG. Here is what he tweeted. Well done, Mr. President. Picking Pam Bondi for Attorney General is a grand slam. Touchdown hole in one ace. Hat trick. Slam dunk. Olympic gold medal pick. She will be confirmed quickly because she deserves to be confirmed quickly. [00:00:36] I don't know what. He's a full grown man. I don't I don't know what that's supposed to be like. - If I know what it is. - It's. - What is it? - It's a grand slam. Touchdown! Hole in one ace. Hat trick. Slam dunk. Olympic gold medal. Ass kissing. Okay. [00:00:51] I mean, if anyone deserves a gold medal in ass kissing, it's Lindsey Graham. So remember, like, when he thought Trump was going to lose in this election cycle. He started talking crap about him. Okay. The minute he realized Trump is going to win, he's like, I meant gold medal. [00:01:08] Vazquez. And please. Please, Donald. So. But but there's something more important than the usual Lindsey Graham groveling. And he's such a hilarious, pathetic sniveler that we enjoy it. I, like I said this on yesterday's program. [00:01:24] I said it today, this morning on Don Lemon's show. I'm saying it here. Pam Bondi is going to fly by in these confirmation proceedings. She's going to be win easily confirmed ease super easily. And there is a there's one reason why. [00:01:41] Because she's corrupt and the Senate loves corruption. Absolutely positively loves it. That's why when she was picked, they know her record, which we're about to tell you. Right. And when they saw how corrupt she is, they're like, yes, that's the right pick. [00:01:59] Okay. It's Matt Gaetz. Guy was annoying, challenging Republican colleagues and freaking anti-war or something. Plus, he's a dirtbag. But like, but they're all dirtbags, so they don't really care about that part, right? What they cared about is, oh, Pam Bondi, unmitigated, unadulterated corruption. [00:02:16] Yes. Yeah. So tell us about our next attorney general. Yeah, we're going to get into all of those. I just want to point out and look, I it feels weird that I have to be the person to do this. I don't have a reputation of being super into sports compared to some of the other people around here, although I do go to a lot of events of sport. [00:02:35] It just feels super weird, like he. Is he on a thesaurus or something? Like, did he ChatGPT. What's what's an impressive sports thing? Like Olympic gold medal. You're going to put that in the same list as, like, an ace. Like, I've played tennis. I've played volleyball. Those are wildly different levels of achievement. [00:02:51] It just seems strange. Like, think before you kiss. But, I mean, there's. An excellent chance that Lindsey Graham's never played a sport in his life. Which is fine, but you don't have to throw around the lingo. I generally do it as a self-effacing joke, but I don't think that's what he's doing here. He just is one. [00:03:07] But anyway, let's dive a little bit into the background and qualifications of Trump's new pick to be the attorney General, Pam Bondi. So we are learning a lot about her. And to be fair, she's popped up in the news previously. TYT has done stories on her. [00:03:24] And we want to get into a little bit of what Jake had been saying previously on the show about how likely she is to sort of sail through here, because certain types of people who might have had a problem with a Matt Gaetz are probably not going to have a problem with her. And we're going to play a little bit of Ana Navarro vouching for her on The View. [00:03:41] So you get an idea of what we're talking about. I have known Pam Bondi for many, many, many years. I will tell you, I don't want to ruin her reputation with MAGA people, but Pam Bondi and I hung out a lot when she was attorney general of Florida, and she would come to Miami. We drank a lot together. I liked her a lot. [00:03:58] She's not a kook. What's a little election denialism Nihilism between friends. Well, you know, at least. At least listen. Everything in life is relative. People denialism is a very big deal. We got to take what we can find him saying this. Everything in life is relative. [00:04:15] There is no accusation of sexual harassment or assault against her. There is no accusation of sexual misconduct with her 17 year olds. No accusations. She hasn't killed or beheaded a whale. She hasn't stabbed a dead bear cub. I mean, my God, we can't minimize some of the things that she has done. [00:04:33] And I think we have a clip of some of her former comments. Why don't we take a look? We are thrilled to have won Pennsylvania with 87% of the vote in, and we're up almost 400,000 votes, so we're thrilled. We do have evidence of cheating. We are not going anywhere until they declare that we won Pennsylvania. [00:04:51] Yeah, eventually they did because they didn't win Pennsylvania, of course. And so look, Anna Navarro I guess is like, what, 8% joking there, 12% joking, I don't know, but I think her point is he she hasn't done some of the stuff that Matt Gaetz has done. She's not, you know, being accused of committing sex crimes or other crimes. [00:05:09] I mean, you know, we'll see if anybody has access to her Venmo history. Feel free to send that to me. I'll protect your confidentiality and we'll see if there's anything in there. But the idea that simply because she's one of the nominees that isn't accused of sexual assault and hasn't done bizarre things with animals, [00:05:27] well, then I guess we're done. We can have her. Even though she herself brought up the fact that what should be one of the most disqualifying things, a predisposition to allow a wannabe strongman to deny the results of elections that he doesn't win. Like, if that doesn't concern you about the chief law enforcement, [00:05:45] someone who theoretically would be brought in to get involved with manipulating the results of elections, then I don't know what would. No, exactly as predicted. Right. So Anna Navarro is a uniparty corporate Democrat, former corporate Republican loves Pam Bondi's corruption. [00:06:04] They've had drinks over it. Okay, so. And look at what she's saying. There's no sex scandal and there's no animal scandal, so she's fine. I don't think that that's the qualification for attorney general. Okay, so. And to her, [00:06:20] the idea of the over the top corruption that we're about to tell you about is more important than a sex scandal or what you did to a dead bear or a worm is like what the worm did do in in part of the reason why, guys, is they, as I've been telling you a thousand times, they use sex to attack [00:06:39] anyone who isn't pro-establishment. Any kind of sexual allegations, etc. And some of them are totally real, right? So it's a mixed bag on that stuff. But but they also they just don't find any of the awful things that we hate about politics to be offensive. [00:06:55] They love those things. So that's why they view those kind of charges as a way to attack people they don't like. But the minute that she likes Bondi, Bondi said that we should go after all the prosecutors and the investigators. [00:07:10] We've got that clip. Why don't we play? So yeah, we're going to play that clip for you in one second. And then it's Ana Navarro who was telling us Trump's going to take away democracy and going to arrest his political opponents, not concerned because she knows Pam Bondi and Pam Bondi is going [00:07:26] to look out for the donors. She's fine. Interesting. Watch, watch the actual Pam Bondi here. The Department of Justice, the prosecutors will be prosecuted. The bad ones. The investigators will be investigated because the deep state last term [00:07:41] for President Trump, they were hiding in the shadows, but now they have a spotlight on them and they can all be investigated. I mean, you combine those two things if he tries to challenge the results of an election. And by the way, not even necessarily like he runs for a third term or whatever. [00:07:58] But just like, I don't know, maybe the midterms, maybe they lose a couple of Senate races in the midterms. And oh, there goes Pam Bondi to to hash things out so she she's willing to deny the results of elections. She's his personal lawyer which is already a big norms are being shredded left and right in terms of the the independence of the DOJ. [00:08:17] But then we're also we're now promising we're going to weaponize the DOJ. Forget all that stuff we said about how that was a bad thing. No, that's specifically what we're going to do. Anyone who investigated Donald Trump for the crimes we all know he committed, he committed most of them in full, plain sight. [00:08:34] He got off because of judicial corruption, not because he didn't do those things. If you rightly investigated him for crimes he doesn't even deny doing, then you yourself should be investigated for doing your goddamn job. Yeah, and she has a history of this as we're about to show you for benefactors. [00:08:50] So in this case, Donald Trump's her benefactor. But in the past, other people have been her benefactors and she has served them loyally. That is why Lindsey Graham and Ana Navarro are beyond themselves and going, this is the perfect corrupt pick. Okay, so let me just remind you of one of the stories. And then John has a new one for you. [00:09:06] So yesterday we told you about how, and but fun little details that I didn't mention yesterday. So the way that it broke down with her and Trump originally is she was attorney general of Florida. Trump was running a fake university, Trump University, and all the attorney [00:09:22] general started investigating it, realizing that it's not real at all and that he's robbing people blind. So she gets that same memo. And instead of launching an investigation, she calls Donald Trump and asks him for a contribution. Okay. [00:09:37] And by the way, she her lawyer confirms this. So then Donald Trump sends her $25,000 from his fake charity for his to get off on charges about his fake university. Okay. That is illegal. Later, Donald Trump pays a $2,500 fine for illegally sending her $25,000 [00:09:55] from a charity to a political action committee, basically. And so, so then she goes four days later after she had cleared the check clears. She goes, oh, I looked into it and decided that there's nothing here. Well, you said like literally two weeks ago that you were [00:10:12] considering investigating this and you're joining the case. Yeah, I considered it. After the $25,000 check, I decided not to. Okay, so. Well, and by the way, remember that charity Donald Trump admitted was fraudulent, paid a $2 million fine and disbanded it and the university that she was originally [00:10:30] considering looking into also fraudulent. Donald Trump also admitted that and paid a $25 million penalty. And by the way, that penalty could have been larger if people like Pam Bondi joined in on that suit. But since she got bribed by Donald Trump illegally in this case, [00:10:45] she dropped the case because she is. And you're going to see it even more starkly in the next story. She doesn't care about morality at all, doing the job at all. There's only one thing she cares about. Where's the money? Wherever the money is, I will serve those donors loyally. [00:11:02] And I will destroy law and order on their behalf. Yeah. And the only thing I would add is, even if you don't think wrongly, if you don't think that what happened between Trump, her and Trump University was wildly, like, objectively corrupt, it's just bribery. [00:11:17] That's all it is. Even if you set all that aside. She looked into it and thought, there's nothing there. She was dead wrong. He was robbing people blind. He was robbing his most devoted followers blind. And she, in her official capacity as the A.G. [00:11:32] Of Florida, just couldn't see it. So even if you don't think she's corrupt, I guess she's incompetent. And do you want her to be the chief law enforcement officer of the United States? She's going to be trying to take down transnational criminal organizations. She's going to be challenging Big pharma and all that. She's so stupid. [00:11:48] She couldn't even see the corruption in Trump University. And that's the most generous look at it, obviously. - Yeah, obviously. - I think it's just corrupt. But yeah, but but guys think about it. Right. So even Donald Trump, who never admits fault, admitted that it was a scam and paid a gigantic $25 million fine. [00:12:06] Do you know how bad it has to be for Donald Trump to admit it and pay that large a fine? And Pam Bondi couldn't see any evidence in a best case scenario, as John laid out. So of course she saw overwhelming evidence. And it shows you again what she cares about and doesn't care about. [00:12:23] And so we're going to have someone who's really brazen here over the top in saying, as long as someone with money gives them, gives it to me, I will do anything, anything that they want. So it's craven. And look, Donald Trump is paying loyalists. [00:12:39] And so he thinks this is perfect. She's already proven her loyalty to me. She's already proven that she's willing to break the law for me. She's already proven she has no morals at all. And she said that she's going to illegally go after prosecutors and investigators. [00:12:55] She didn't. She never said, and I why do I say illegally? She never said they had committed any crimes. Yeah, right. She's just like I didn't like what they did politically. So I'm going to target them legally. I mean, that is exactly what you said the Democrats were doing, except the Democrats [00:13:10] actually had showed overwhelming evidence of the crimes of Donald Trump here. They're saying, I don't need crimes. All I need is Donald Trump to tell me to arrest our enemies, and I'll arrest them. And and if you include a check, I'll I'll give you special kickers on it. So but now let's look at it from a non-trump perspective. [00:13:28] So you know who she is and how this isn't about Trump. Okay, sorry, not involving him literally at all, but yeah, let's learn a little bit more about Pam Bondi, who could well become the AG. So back in 2010, there were two attorneys in Florida. So they were working for the state attorneys general office, [00:13:44] and they discovered a scam. They did great work in unveiling it. And here's basically what it looked like. So this is June Clarkson and Teresa Edwards. And what they found was that there was a group of law firms in Florida referred to as foreclosure mills because they were doing all these mass foreclosures. [00:14:00] And one of the tools they used to do that was that they had hundreds of thousands of falsified documents that were used in the pursuit of these foreclosures, and a group of victims of the foreclosures had found these documents that were literally signed things like bogus assignee or whatever. [00:14:18] They had documents dated 999999, which either proves that the documents were fraudulent or time travel is involved. And I'm worried about either one of those incidents, but they had documents notarized on dates before they were allegedly created, more evidence, possibly of a temporal incursion. [00:14:35] The false documents were necessary because bankers, banks and lenders striving during the housing bubble to sell mortgages and deliver them to investors securitize the loans without maintaining chain of title, botching the true ownership record. So there's like gaps in the documentation and rather than that potentially be [00:14:53] uncovered and a judge getting involved and that potentially going against those with the mortgages and potentially going towards the actual homeowners, they just make it up. They just falsify a bunch of the documents so they can do their foreclosures and make more money. [00:15:09] And so the attorneys general office, seeing this evidence being provided by the lawyers and the victims, open investigations into these mills. And before long, the bank stopped pursuing the foreclosures, which is a great thing, because they're actually following the law, and also [00:15:24] because people aren't fraudulently having their homes stolen from them. So at that point, Pam Bondi gets elected Florida's attorney general. And so she won election thanks in part to donations, thousands of dollars in contributions from none other than lender Processing services and its affiliates. [00:15:42] Obviously, among the foreclosure mills, they got involved and they put money towards a candidate that they thought would go easier on them after they had been breaking the law, to be clear. And so the two attorneys who had first been pursuing these documents and these foreclosure mills were frozen out of the investigation [00:16:00] within just a couple of months, they were actually fired, despite doing an amazing job in unveiling this. This is like the the definition of justice. They get fired for their trouble. And so when asked why they were let go, their supervisor told them it came from the top. Tallahassee didn't give me a reason. [00:16:18] And of course at that point she is the top of Florida's law enforcement. And by the way, that wasn't all that Bondi ended up giving to the foreclosure mills getting rid of this investigation. After Clarkson Edwards left the Florida Attorney General's office, never issued another subpoena to any foreclosure mill or associated target. [00:16:36] Bondi settled one case with a mill for just $2 million, a small portion of the profits that they had gotten from breaking the law. Other investigations were closed without charges. Top deputies from the AG's office became senior executives at LPs and other foreclosure mills. [00:16:52] So literally, like, it's even more direct than just lobbying. They literally they shut down the investigations of companies that they were then hired at. So they got paid beforehand. Then they're in the AG's office, they shut down the investigations, and then they get paid again in the jobs, the most obvious corruption imaginable. [00:17:10] And we have some other red flags that we should talk about. But that's pretty bad, Jake. Yeah. So, guys, this is exactly what I talk. What I mean when I say corruption so it doesn't get any more direct than, oh, you gave me a campaign contribution. [00:17:25] You're a criminal who's robbing my citizens blind. My job as attorney general is to protect the citizens of Florida. But I'm going to screw them over because you bribe me. In that case, legally. Campaign contributions, unfortunately, are legalized bribes. So I'm going to fire any prosecutor who would protect you. [00:17:43] And I'm going to make sure that your fines are minimal or go away. I mean, if this isn't corruption, what is? And if you're in Florida and you're a Republican, what did you want to be robbed by your. By a mortgage company. Did you want them to foreclose on you when you hadn't done anything wrong? [00:18:02] Can you imagine how enraged you'd be taking away your home, your personal property when you played by the rules and you did everything right. But her counter to you is. Yeah, but I got a really large campaign contribution. So. And I served the rich, the elites, the establishment. [00:18:18] ET cetera. Look at how excited the establishment is when she's picked. So you can all close your eyes to it. If you're on the right and you could say no, daddy, Trump is always right. So if she's protecting Trump and she's going to arrest our opponents and and [00:18:33] serve the donor class, I'm here for it. And I love it. Well, okay, then. I guess you never meant anything you ever said about the Democrats or the left or the establishment. Yeah. So we're going to get to find out who Trump is. I mean, we're pretty sure because he picks people like Pam Bondi, right? [00:18:49] We know who Pam Bondi is, right. And now the next thing that we're going to find out is who are the right wing voters. So in this case you won't you will not be faced with a decision. It won't get to you. Some votes will be close enough. Some issues will be close enough. [00:19:06] That right wing populist, if I'm right, could swing it one way or another, and they could either choose to go in the wrong direction and go, oh yeah, throw away all the leftists. Yeah, screw freedom. We hate it, right? Or they could say, no, we didn't mean arrest them. [00:19:22] That's crazy. We didn't mean serve the donors. That's crazy. Right? But it won't be on this one because she's going to sail through, since if I'm right, the establishment will love her and they'll put up a fake fight. Oh, golly gee, we are so worried about this or that. [00:19:40] You are a bad Trump person. Okay, but go on through. Go on through right away. Right away. Okay. And you'll see. You'll see. Yeah, yeah. Because as bad as this looks, as far as we know, she's never gone buck wild at a cocaine orgy. So I guess she's cool. That's a sad standard for the top law enforcement officer. [00:19:58] And I totally agree. Like, it's one thing for your chosen representatives to fail you and you to not mind. Like they try. And it doesn't work out or something, but when they're specifically and intentionally robbing you, it's very strange that that doesn't bother you. [00:20:13] Like, again, it's Florida. It's the majority of the people who are having their houses stolen from them are Republicans. They might be MAGA Republicans. She helped make that happen in the same way that it is Trump lovers who are being scammed by Trump University. She tried to keep them as screwed as they had been, and they don't mind. [00:20:32] They just don't seem to care. And obviously we have a bit of a disagreement about some of the terminology, but like, I find this to be a perfect example of why I think the populism of the right is an utter sham. It always comes down to this. She says the right thing about immigration on Fox News, and then [00:20:49] she goes and delivers to corporations like their populism is, you know, Disney releases a movie where there's a gay kiss. So they say to to boycott it. And then they cut Disney's taxes in half the next time they're in office. Like, that's what it is. It's like it's identity politics and like, like culture wars Was in the front, [00:21:08] but then the action is all delivering to the richest and most powerful people in the country. Not sometimes, predictably, every single time. John, for the record, we don't have a disagreement on that. You're talking about the Republican leaders and Trump and and his crew. [00:21:23] I agree with you. That's all they've ever done so far. I'm talking about the right wing populists of voters. Voters. Okay, okay. And and so we'll see if they have rebellion in them, if they believed in freedom or they actually secretly love corruption and the establishment as long as Trump does it. [00:21:38] Yeah. I just want to mention one other thing, possibly for a quick I was doing more research on Pam Bondi. So she had said last year, and we might have covered it at that point, that campus protesters who expressed support for Hamas. God only knows how they define that should face FBI questioning. [00:21:54] So look, she's supposed to be like, you know, she's not a judge or whatever, but she's a chief law enforcement officer. Has she literally ever seen the Constitution? Has she ever been within a country mile of the Constitution? She thinks First Amendment? No, not if you say something I don't like. Forget about it. [00:22:09] And guys, you know, that's easy to decipher. Code word for anyone who protests Israel. So it's not like they're going to be like, oh no, they were protesting Israel because we're spending too much money on Israel and we're concerned about the war crimes. Oh, but those guys actually support Hamas. Let's just target those guys. [00:22:26] No, they're going to round up everyone and they're going to say, how dare you not bow your head to Israel. So another reason why she's establishment and and neocon, etc., that's why she's going to fly through. And by the way, same thing with Hegseth, who we're going to talk about [00:22:42] in the next segment. Yeah. Hegseth thinks that the US military should be used against Americans if they defy Israel. Yeah. Like these guys aren't populist. They're not America first. Right. These are total frauds. [00:22:57] So we'll see if right wing goes. Yeah. As long as they're my frauds, I'm good with it. And I'm. I know no one else is curious. Everybody thinks that the jury is in, but I'm curious as to which way they're going to go on that? Well, I'm curious with this Hamas thing, how many Democrats will end up voting for her? Maybe she'll get the 15. Oh, no, I'm not I'm not playing with you. [00:23:15] Democrats might vote for her because she's so pro corruption, pro establishment and they love that. So she might get half the Democrats. Yeah. Hell she might get multiple votes from people she'll end up trying to throw in prison. But we'll see. - Let's see what Adam Schiff does. - Oh, Adam Schiff oh my God. [00:23:32] He's like, wait, you're going to arrest every Israel protester. They're going to be dragging him away to a gulag, and he's going to be trying to get to the button to vote for her as he's dragged away. Thanks for watching The Young Turks really appreciate it. Another way to show support is through YouTube memberships. 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