The ROM has time on his hands. Enough time that he has watched all of the Democratic presidential candidate debates in their entirety, and all of the House hearings on the impeachment of Donald Trump.
However, the ROM can't get himself to watch the Senate trial - the 24 hours of testimony by both sides over six days. What little he has seen struck him as all very redundant - that sense of deja vu kicked in every time he turned on the proceedings. There's only so many hours in life - not enough to watch the senate trial in its entirety.
But then yesterday, when he tuned in briefly, he saw former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi talking for some reason about a completely different case - Hunter Biden's involvement with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Bondi was trying to explain that the real scandal wasn't the issue that the impeachment was all about - the President's scheme to withhold aide to Ukraine until it did him a political favor. She argued that Biden's involvement with Burisma was the real scandal - that was where one could find actual corruption.
I'm going to have to give her argument some consideration, because if there's one thing Bondi should know about, it's corruption. She's as corrupt as they come. When she was the Florida Attorney General, her office received at least 22 fraud complaints about Trump University. In 2013, a spokesperson for Bondi announced that her office was considering joining a lawsuit initiated by New York's Attorney General against Trump regarding tax fraud. But four days later, And Justice for All, a PAC established by Bondi to support her re-election campaign, received a $25,000 donation from the Donald J. Trump Foundation, after which Bondi decided not to join the lawsuit against Trump University after all.
(Sources: "Trump contribution to Pam Bondi's re-election draws more scrutiny to her fundraising," Tampa Bay Times, October 17, 2013; "The Trump tax filings we've seen highlight the need to see more," Tampa Bay Times, May 17, 2016.)
Bondi also pressured two attorneys to resign who were investigating the technology giant Black Knight (then LPS) following a robosigning scandal as part of their work for Florida's Economic Crime Division, after she received large campaign contributions from LPS.
(Source: "Political notebook: Pam Bondi under fire after LPS-related resignations," Florida Times Union/Jacksonville.com, July 29, 2011.)
Bondi's association with Scientology and the multiple fundraisers that wealthy Scientologists have organized for Bondi's political campaigns over the years have also provoked controversy. Bondi has justified those contacts and her involvement with Scientologists by arguing that the group wished to help her crack down on human trafficking. However her public association with Scientology began in 2010, when it was already being investigated by the FBI for involvement in human trafficking and abusing its workers.
(Sources: "Pam Bondi's Clearwater fundraiser organized by Scientologists," Tampa Bay Times, June 30, 2014; "Pam Bondi to speak before group with ties to Scientology," Tampa Bay Times, September 6, 2016; "Donald Trump, Pam Bondi, and the Church of Scientology," Tampa Bay Beat, October 6, 2016.)
So, yeah, "Buy Me Bondi" knows a thing or two about corruption, because she's wallowed in it her whole career. It's just a little ironic that the republicans would call on that particular kettle to call the other one black.
Bondi also pressured two attorneys to resign who were investigating the technology giant Black Knight (then LPS) following a robosigning scandal as part of their work for Florida's Economic Crime Division, after she received large campaign contributions from LPS.
(Source: "Political notebook: Pam Bondi under fire after LPS-related resignations," Florida Times Union/Jacksonville.com, July 29, 2011.)
Bondi's association with Scientology and the multiple fundraisers that wealthy Scientologists have organized for Bondi's political campaigns over the years have also provoked controversy. Bondi has justified those contacts and her involvement with Scientologists by arguing that the group wished to help her crack down on human trafficking. However her public association with Scientology began in 2010, when it was already being investigated by the FBI for involvement in human trafficking and abusing its workers.
(Sources: "Pam Bondi's Clearwater fundraiser organized by Scientologists," Tampa Bay Times, June 30, 2014; "Pam Bondi to speak before group with ties to Scientology," Tampa Bay Times, September 6, 2016; "Donald Trump, Pam Bondi, and the Church of Scientology," Tampa Bay Beat, October 6, 2016.)
So, yeah, "Buy Me Bondi" knows a thing or two about corruption, because she's wallowed in it her whole career. It's just a little ironic that the republicans would call on that particular kettle to call the other one black.
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