CNN’s Ana Navarro offered some backhanded compliments to former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, whom President-elect Donald Trump nominated to be U.S. attorney general.
Trump gave Bondi the nod on Thursday after Matt Gaetz withdrew his name from consideration hours earlier. Gaetz had been under investigation by the Department of Justice and the House Ethics Committee over an allegation he had sex with a 17-year-old girl. The DOJ declined to prosecute, and the committee has declined to release its findings after Gaetz resigned from Congress last week. The former congressman denies wrongdoing.
“I know Pam Bondi very well,” Navarro said on Thursday’s AC360 on CNN. “Pam Bondi, like many other Republicans, is a mainstream Republican who turned MAGA.”
Navarro proceeded to rattle off several things Bondi has not been accused of. In doing so, she alluded to Gaetz, Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth, and Secretary of Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr.:
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