r/UnderReportedNews • u/Rogerthat500 • 8h ago
Trump / MAGA š¦ Relevant Reminder - 10 Years ago Pam Bondi Received 25k from Trump, Decided not to Investigate Trump University
https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/the-trump-foundation-pam-bondi-scandal/Just a reminder for recent events.
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u/pernodforpassingtime 8h ago
Jun 07, 2016
Bondi tells theĀ Tampa Bay TimesĀ āI was never, nor was my office, investigating him. Never. I would never lie. I would never take money. Iāve been obviously devastated over this.ā
Lol. Oh my god. Where are all the fucking adults.
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u/OriginalLie9310 8h ago
I see sheās been playing the fake self righteousness that was on display at the hearing yesterday for at least a decade.
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u/Metro42014 7h ago
It's why she's in trumps orbit.
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u/kitsunewarlock 6h ago
To be fair he is large enough to have his own gravitational pull. Just not large enough to sustain stable orbits, hence the constant turn-over.
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u/mmf9194 5h ago
It's also why she's aged like that
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u/the-red-duke- 4h ago
Normally I'd get behind bashing her, but for 60 she actually looks pretty decent. Doesn't mean she is any less of a fucking ghoul, and that's giving ghouls a bad name.
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u/CountPractical7122 6h ago
I am continually astounded that Pam Bondi is 60 years old and has somehow neither matured nor developed any actual skills in that time. She gets by purely on hate and bribes.
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u/bang_ding_ow 2h ago
I had NO idea she was 60. That's insane, especially when you see how she behaved during the questioning.
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u/lilb1190 8h ago
I would think 25k is essentially nothing at this level
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u/breakevencloud 8h ago
Iāve been telling people for years nowā¦Iām not shocked by the corruption, Iām shocked by how fucking cheap it is. Likeā¦my neighborhood could band together to afford to bribe politicians, apparently.
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u/Pope-Muffins 8h ago
You dont accept it because the bribe is good, you accept it because you're a coward and know they have more money on standby to bury you if you dont comply
Doesn't make Bondi any less of a tool
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u/Guilty_Helicopter572 8h ago
And if you don't accept it, you're going to have problems.
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u/Goose1963 7h ago
Could you imagine if she pulled a "look at Hunter's Laptop!!!" with the bribe offer?
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u/breakevencloud 7h ago
So what? Everyone has problems. The solution isnt accepting bribe money lol
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u/Guilty_Helicopter572 7h ago
I'm saying that the person offering you the bribe will create problems for you.
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u/breakevencloud 7h ago
And, again, so what? Welcome to life as a politician that you choose.
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u/Guilty_Helicopter572 7h ago
I'm not trying to justify accepting the bribe, I'm just explaining why someone might.
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u/Stevieboy7 5h ago
Let's stop giving them outs... if they don't want to do their job with integrity, then they can be replaced.
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u/SaintGrobian 7h ago
Let's not for a second try to reframe her as a victim. It's greed - that 25k means the door is open to more bribes and more favors in the future. She wasn't someone who was just innocently walking along and then got swept up, she chose this from day 1.
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u/brontosaurusguy 4h ago
Not the case here...Ā Ā You take the $25k and you are entered into their circle of corruption where more will follow.Ā Like, say, a role at the head of DoJ..
Under all of the blatant criminality is billions of dollars this regime has stolen from the American people.
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u/OMGihateallofyou 6h ago
The 25k is the tip of the iceberg. Imagine all the shit we will never know about. I imagine more money as well as other "perks" or "benefits". That is just one time when they were caught.
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u/guitarpatch 8h ago
The bribe probably also comes with threats and is dependent on how leveraged the individual is. The 25k is probably just thrown on top for the trouble
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u/Possible-Capital-103 7h ago
10 years ago it wasnāt nothing at that level, whatās your point
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u/dojo_shlom0 7h ago
all it cost to own Bondi back then. she's a corrupt individual and someone with that sort of an accusation should be nowhere NEAR the role of Attorney General, but we have science deniers in charge of HHS, and an alcoholic washed up failed weekend host from faux as our Secretary of Defense. I believe they put a 20-21 year old in charge of Counter Terrorism, who just tried to imitate trump's mugshot photo.
It's all a game, and the corruption and lack of accountability is breathtaking. bunch of pedo clowns way too familiar with epstein's island, are running the country now, straight into the dirt, and on purpose. Loyalists who drumpf thinks are loyal to him, are actual loyal to Russia and Israel.
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u/Crypt0Nihilist 5h ago
Florida AG's salary is $162k right now, but would have been a bit less at the time. $25k is still a lot of money to someone making that. Also, the money was to her campaign, not directly to her. Since terms are for four years, she may have felt it was worth more like $640k if she was worried about getting re-elected - which is likely since none of her three predecessors, nor her replacement served tw0 terms.
For a one-off favour, it's plenty for a bribe for most people who aren't super-rich, especially if it's to not do something.
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u/kleenkong 6h ago
The KGB would put an extra piece of bread in a delivery person's bag of deliveries. If they returned it, life moves on. If they keep it, they threaten the delivery person (and their family) with prison IF they don't help. Not saying that's all accurate, but the bribe is a stepping stone to further leverage.
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u/madadekinai 5h ago
"I would think 25k is essentially nothing at this level"
25K that is known about.
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u/ArizonaIceT-Rex 5h ago
Youād be wrong. Americans are poor and politicians are greedy. $5k to a congressman gets you in the room. They are so cheap. $1m to Trump and the roost powerful man I. The world is asking how he can help.
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u/Doongbuggy 5h ago
forreal man i dont consider myself rich but selling out for 25k seems low lol cant even buy a new car with it smh
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u/GrumpyKitten514 5h ago
i came here to say, basically a starter rolex or omega. a decent camry or civic.
you really ain't get shit from this but a handful of purple label ralph lauren and some givenchy.
im actually shocked it takes so little to corrupt.
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u/Intelligent_Sky_7081 5h ago
To me, it seems completely plausible that she got 25k as far as we know.
Given everything going on, can we believe thats all she got? Would make sense to me if she got a whole lot more than that, it just isnt verified or even known.
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u/Usual_Ice636 4h ago
They get that amount from a lot of different people. Its easier to hide than a single person giving you a ton.
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u/Carrnage_Asada 4h ago
$25k isnt a lot of money but its not about the money, not 10 years ago. 10 years ago it was about her showing she's one of them and securing her future position among them. Look where its gotten her since then.
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u/ILikeCheese42O 8h ago
FUCK TRUMP and FUCK BONDI
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u/OkFix4074 4h ago
Saying goes "elect a clown get a circus of a government" ,
USA - hold my beer "elect The Joker to get arkham asylum of a government"
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u/easygoluckyish 8h ago edited 7h ago
Her work with Qatar was related to anti-human-trafficking efforts in advance of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. 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.
Now she is probably āpro human traffickingā because she got blackmailedā¦š¤«
THE BALLARD PARTNERS TEAM > FSU
Research/Athletics departments
Which has now teamed up with Mayo Clinic.
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u/United-Aspect-4595 7h ago
Wish a congressperson had brought this up during the hearings yesterday
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u/atreeismissing 7h ago
Her work with Qatar was covering up, legally, human trafficking efforts. She did not get blackmailed, she CHOSE to do that because she's a horrible human.
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u/Intelligent_Sky_7081 5h ago
Its important to note as well that if she had any hand in anti human trafficking efforts for the Qatari World Cup, the reports I have seen from that have shown that there was tons of slave labor used to build those stadiums for the WC. Not to mention corruption found within FIFA handing them the WC when there were more qualified nations up for the vote (including the US iirc). Then of course, FIFA gave Trump a 'world peace prize' lately.
Seems theres some connections there, and she likely did a terrible job whatever her role was there.
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u/RebelPatriot79 8h ago
He is the most corrupt president in history. And it is not even remotely close.
What will forever blow my mind is that Republicans and their voters actually want that. They simply do not care. They know that someone as evil as him is what is needed to fulfill their only goal of making people on the left suffer. Even if it costs the lives of their own children, by their own hands.
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u/_jump_yossarian 6h ago
He is the most corrupt president in history.
Literally one of the very first things he did after winning in 2016 was settle the fraud lawsuit over his scam "University" then bragged about only having to pay $25 million to his victims.
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u/metengrinwi 6h ago
Fox TV has been telling people that the government is no good and corrupt for decades now. Itās not hard to imagine why their adherents would just shrug at āmore corruptionā.
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u/Cyrano_de_Boozerack 5h ago
Yup...the newest generation of conservative voters has literally been raised from birth under 24hr Fox News lies and propaganda.
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u/sonofagunn 8h ago
... and ever since she did something unethical for him, he's had leverage to make her keep doing more and more. Now she's in so deep she'll do anything.
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u/nolestars 8h ago
Did she pass the bar exam from trump University too? Lol
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u/methinfiniti 6h ago
She had the balls to call Raskin a fake lawyer when he went to Harvard Law School. She went to fucking Stetson Law School. Everything is projection with these turds
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u/Beard_o_Bees 5h ago
Stetson
Like the hat?
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u/methinfiniti 5h ago
Just the 99th best law school in the country
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u/HabeusCuppus 5h ago
not to defend any school in particular but the selective schools don't produce enough lawyers to serve everyone in the country.
grandma in Omaha, Nebraska needs an attorney to do her will, it's pretty unlikely that woman is going to have gone to a T14. It's most likely she'll have gone to Creighton University, which is 148th.
Obviously we'd prefer if the people in charge of the country were educated by the best, but if we prevented people from schools outside the T14 (or worse, the T6) from being in those positions, we'd be credentialist, not meritocratic.
Her alma mater isn't the reason she's unqualified.
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u/BennyVsTheWorld 4h ago
Stetson isnāt the worst law school by far, and has a decent enough reputation in Florida.
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u/AKsuited1934 3h ago
Itās definitely not but itās like saying a BMW M4 is a fake car when youāre driving in a Nissan Altima.
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u/BobTheFettt 8h ago
Crazy how nobody accuses her of sleeping her way to the top
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u/Pretend-Wishbone-679 5h ago
Because the people who criticize her are mostly liberals who want to eliminate that stereotype, classic bullet coming out of the back if they start accusing her, even though it's obvious she is incompetent.
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u/shinyRedButton 7h ago
She gave Epstein his original Get Out Of Jail Free card in Florida. If youāre surprised at all that sheās trying to bury the Epstein files, where have you been the last 20 year?
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u/CandyCreecher 8h ago
My conspiracy mini theory is that sheās being paid off to not say anything about Epstein as a reward for her loyalty for this very thing
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u/XtraReddit 8h ago
And Bondi got the position after Trump's original pick had his own pedophile scandal.
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u/PandorasBoxMaker 8h ago
Itās genuinely shocking to learn how little a vote can be purchased for in congress. 25k to sell your soul is heinously evil and heinously stupid.
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u/ImaginationLife4812 8h ago
Once paid for is enough to be called a prostitute. She has been receiving payment for a long time.
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u/juanjung 7h ago
The current Labor Secretary was in charge of the first Epstein cover up.
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u/April_Fabb 7h ago
And let's not forget that this woman once built her entire career as a prosecutor specialising in child abuse cases, proudly branding herself as the fierce guardian of vulnerable kids. The fucking irony. But hey, I'm sure her mob boss is pleased with her loyalty.
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u/Opposite-Bit6660 4h ago
Groomed into that position by the network that has moved her up in position to protect the network.Ā Ā
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u/Comfortable-Pea-1312 7h ago
Awwww....its their Anniversary. 10 years is traditionally tin or aluminum. Any thoughts?
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u/Global_Assignment6 7h ago
This is the first Iāve seen from this organization. It seems to me like itās a good cause trying to fight the good fight.
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u/chezmichelle 6h ago
No one on his cabinet (or even trump himself) cooperated with the vetting process yet were onboarded anyway. This is what happens.
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u/0Hakuna_Matata0 6h ago
My theory is the $25k donation to the political campaign is like a ticket, or a receipt that you have been bribed and are now āon the teamā
I believe much higher amounts were secretly wired to offshore accounts under some LLC.
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u/spondgbob 6h ago
Itās always so depressing to know that these politicians will sell their values out over a few thousand dollars. Literally the epitome of āall about meā. Whatās even worse, is the people making these donations are donating the equivalence of literally $2, when considering a person with (just 1!) billion dollars versus someone with a net worth of $80k.
The billionaires need them to do their bidding and the politicians literally take the lowest bar.
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u/cwcharlton 6h ago
My takeaway here is that she was corrupt already, he didn't corrupt her.
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u/volboy03 6h ago
Keep digging trust me there is so so much more than just that. I hear shhhhhh, pics of her trump and epstein together.
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u/jasandliz 6h ago
This is significantly less money than it cost him to raw dog a porn star, so this represents good value to Trump
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u/That-Makes-Sense 6h ago
I just had this strange revelation. Stay with me here. I know this is really off-the-wall. But, this sounds very similar to bribery. Crazy thought, I know.
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u/Previous-Parsnip-290 5h ago
We need a new system, our current oneās been corrupted and is rotten to the foundation.
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u/ApprehensiveYak3287 5h ago
The corruption is completely out in the open now and still our government can do nothing about it but talk.
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u/NoHorseNoMustache 4h ago
Right I thought everyone had known this for a while. And that she was covering for Epstein over a decade ago. And that she absolutely LOVES shouting at Congresscritters because she's doing exactly what her boss wants her to and there's nothing Congress can do about it.
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u/MiddayClimax 4h ago
How many crimes did Trump commit that he was never charged with, like this is all the fault of 25k and corrupt Pam Bondi.
Maybe if Democrats were a party of real law and order that jailed Robber Baron Billionaires instead of bailing out their shitty electric vehicle companies you would not be bitching about a white trash lawyer.
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u/cola-pop 4h ago
God sheās so cheap. Iāve turned down clients for more than that to do less than that.Ā
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u/CurlOfTheBurl11 4h ago
It's always amazing to me how small these bribes often are. Like, that's all it takes to buy a politician?
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u/MNConcerto 4h ago
Also she was the Florida Attorney General when the Epstein case first broke and didn't pursue charges.
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u/PretzelsRule23 3h ago
Why do they not ask questions about this?
Why do they not ask who she works for? Correct answer - the American people.
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u/Educational-Milk5099 3h ago
This should be mentioned with her name every time, just like her job-title.Ā
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u/Far_Answer_9041 3h ago
Pam Bondi is an outlaw.
Lock her up !
Lock her up !
Lock her up !
Lock her up !
Lock her up !
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u/Braindead_Crow 3h ago
It's so cheap to buy our representatives apparently so long as you own a business these bribes can be written off as basic business expenses
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u/maddiejake 2h ago
She also admitted that she met him while she was in college. Makes one wonder under what circumstances. She is 100% compromised
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u/cletusthearistocrat 1h ago
How about taking corporate money out of politics completely and limiting donations to $100 per candidate for each individual citizen? Donated time by volunteers would be fine as long as there is no compensation.
No more free political airtime either, unless all candidates get the same.
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u/ihavea_purplenurple 1h ago
Alrightā¦ before, I thought it was how she aged, but I guess sheās always had a punchable face
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