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Pam Bondi defends decision to take money from Donald Trump

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Attorney General Pam Bondi forcefully denied wrongdoing Tuesday in connection with a $25,000 campaign contribution from Donald Trumpā€™s foundation after her office received complaints about Trump University. ā€œI would never trade any campaign donation ā€” thatā€™s absurd ā€” for some type of favor to anyone,ā€ Bondi said during a frequently testy exchange with news reporters outside her Capitol office. ā€œHe donated to multiple candidates, Democrats and Republicans alike,ā€ she said. Why not return the money when critics questioned its propriety?…

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Pam Bondi goes to Nevada

Drawing on lessons learned after a nightclub massacre last year in Orlando, Attorney General Pam Bondi and members of her

Florida Dems file election complaint against Donald Trump in Pam Bondi deal

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Florida Democratic Party Chair Allison Tant filed a complaint Thursday with the Florida Elections Commission charging that Donald Trump violated Florida law with his $25,000 donation to a committee supporting the re-election of Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. The complaint does not charge Bondi with any wrongdoing. And it doesn’t delve into the relationship between Trump and Bondi. Rather, it deals with what happened later as the money moved around. The elections charge against Trump involves his 2013 Trump Foundation’s…

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Pam Bondi goes to Nevada

Drawing on lessons learned after a nightclub massacre last year in Orlando, Attorney General Pam Bondi and members of her

New York AG opens investigation against Trump Foundation

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New Yorkā€™s attorney general is investigating the Donald J. Trump Foundation to make sure the organization is complying with state laws governing charities. POLITICO is reportingĀ Attorney GeneralĀ Eric SchneidermanĀ “has opened an inquiry into the Trump Foundation based on troubling transactions that have recently come to light.” Schneiderman announced the investigation Tuesday. Schneiderman recently filed a lawsuit against Trump University, and in an interview with CNN, said the Manhattan billionaireā€™s charitable foundation is also under examination. “My interest in this issue really…

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Pam Bondi goes to Nevada

Drawing on lessons learned after a nightclub massacre last year in Orlando, Attorney General Pam Bondi and members of her

Hillary Clinton ad goes after Donald Trump-Pam Bondi money

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A new Hillary Clinton commercial being released on the internet Wednesday highlights the donation Donald Trump‘s foundation made to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and calls it corrupt politics. The 2013 donation, made as Bondi’s office was reviewing a potential action against Trump University in Florida, has become big fodder for Democrats. On Tuesday, members of Florida’s Democratic congressional delegation called for a federal investigation. U.S. Rep.Ā Ted Deutch said it looks like “a bribe” and U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel said…

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Pam Bondi goes to Nevada

Drawing on lessons learned after a nightclub massacre last year in Orlando, Attorney General Pam Bondi and members of her

Bob Sparks: Is Team Bondi ready for battle?

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Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is reluctantly moving onstage in the 2016 presidential campaign. With the national polls tightening between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, her advocates are looking for ways to change the narrative. Who can blame them? With the drip, drip, drip of damaging revelations surrounding the email investigation and foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation, they need to spin the story that Trump and his foundation also behave badly. Trump University is that opportunity. The Clinton side…

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Pam Bondi goes to Nevada

Drawing on lessons learned after a nightclub massacre last year in Orlando, Attorney General Pam Bondi and members of her

Mitch Perry Report for 9.8.16 ā€” The reality of our binary choice for POTUS

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To begin with today, props to the Tampa Bay Times’ Anastasia Dawson for her portrayal on the very short life of Levonia Riggins, the 22-year-old black man shot and killed last week by a white Hillsborough County sheriff’s deputy because … well, because they said he went for a gun when he was confronted in his bedroom at 8 a.m. by said sheriff deputy (Riggins was unarmed). And the reason why a SWAT teamĀ was banging down his door in the…

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Mitch Perry Report for 9.7.16 ā€” Pam Bondi’s reluctance to investigate Trump University resurfaces on the campaign trail

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Who knew Hillary Clinton was a fan of the University of South Florida Bulls? ā€œHello, Tampa! Hello, USF! I know Iā€™m only the second-most exciting thing thatā€™s happened here in the last few days. Your big win to open your football season got some attention,” the Democratic presidential nominee said to the audience who gathered at the rather intimate student recreation center on the North Tampa campus on Tuesday (And yes, that 56-20 victory over Towson was impressive). After dispensing…

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