Pam Bondi: Returning Trump’s money would have looked like I got caught taking a bribe

[meow2u3]

Florida’s attorney general finally broke her silence on accepting a campaign contribution from Donald Trump and then promptly dropping her investigation of his phony university.

Pam Bondi addressed the ongoing scandal Tuesday morning in a news conference, where she blamed the media for placing her in a “damned if she does, damned if she doesn’t” bind after Trump gave her $25,000, reported the Tampa Bay Times.

The attorney general said she had no regrets about taking the campaign donation she solicited from the real estate developer and reality TV star in August 2013, because she said she was certain she’d done nothing wrong.

“I just knew there was nothing improper,” Bondi said. “I will never let money from anyone affect what I do. I’m proud of my office. I’m proud of the work that we do.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/pam-bondi-returning-trumps-money-would-have-looked-like-i-got-caught-taking-a-bribe/

No, Pam. Keeping the money makes you look like you took a bribe! There, I fixed it for you.

[Ohioblue22]

1. As opposed to keeping it and looking like you took a bribe

[dhill926]

2. nice try....

[DinahMoeHum]

3. You're EFFED either way, "lady". . .

. . .and there are quotation marks around the word "lady" for good reason.

[jberryhill]

5. What might that "good reason" be?

Other than the fact that she is a woman, and is thus a target for this sort of insult?

[DinahMoeHum]

9. Do I really have to spell it out for you?

Figure it out yourself, if you please.

And don't put words in my mouth, either, thank you very much.

[asiliveandbreathe]

16. Some here at DU take such offense at the mere hint of a lack of

PC - I used the term cupcake to describe andrea Mitchell - boy, was I taken to task.. that was a softball compared to what I really think of her..

"lady" inference - look Bondi is an insult to all us ladies...

Pay to play - by an atty genl?? - Who has one of the highest execution rates in the country?? - excuse me, "lady" is too good a term for that, dare I say it - POS!

Be well..

[LanternWaste]

38. "Do I really have to spell it out for you?" often said in place of "I cower behind implication...

"Do I really have to spell it out for you?" often said in place of "I cower behind implication as I lack the courage of my convictions..."

[asiliveandbreathe]

17. Bondi is a poor excuse for a woman...we are becoming way to

sensitive - Bondi is an insult - pay to play - big boys game - highest execution rate...please, calling bondi a lady is an insult to ladies....I am a woman - and I absolutely find bondi deplorable ....

[Botany]

4. Pam

If you had returned the money and not gone to a fund raiser for you @ Trump's place then you
would not have taken a bribe but since you did take the money and go to a fund raiser @
Trump's place after which you dropped out of the investiigations into Trump U means you
took a bribe.

[PJMcK]

6. And there it is: Republican ethics

Attorney General Bondi is clearly just another hypocritical Republican. meow2u3 fixed Ms. Bondi's statement perfectly!

[meow2u3]

11. Thank you very much

Unlike repukes, we here on DU weren't born yesterday. It's very easy to fix an excuse for statement coming from a Trumpanzee like Bondi.

[PJMcK]

14. Your welcome (n/t)

[Kingofalldems]

7. Well--->

[Iliyah]

8. Investigations must be getting very close for her to come out with this bullshit

We all know the GOP will reward her and shit even give her an award.

[barbtries]

10. no, Pam

taking the bribe made you look bad, because you are!

[yellowcanine]

12. Time to lawyer up, Pam.

[salin]

13. hahahahaha *needed that laugh*

as said elsewhere: the solicitation and receipt look like a Bribe.

[mercuryblues]

15. I'm sure

that reply made sense to her at 11:00 o'clock last night, after her 4th scotch on the rocks. She is finding out in the light of day, people aren't buying what she is selling.

[eShirl]

18. lol

she means, it would make it more obvious

[kentuck]

19. That is an all-time classic !

"If I had returned the money to the bank, they would have thought I was the one that robbed them."

[malaise]

21. ReTHUG have perfected the art of

an inversion of reality - up is down, in is out and Don is still a Con

[kentuck]

28. Yeah, that's the ticket !

[louis-t]

31. That's the first thing I thought of

only my analogy was robbing a liquor store.

[Johonny]

40. Had I returned the cocaine to the mirror people would have thought I sniffed it

[2naSalit]

20. Umm...

probably 'cuz that's what it was or something?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

22. And washing off all this blood on my hands would make it look like I committed this murder. nt

[lpbk2713]

23. "Now if you buy that one ...

I have some prime waterfront property in the Everglades I'd like to sell you."

[kentuck]

29. Mitch McConnell is the groundskeeper...

[meow2u3]

30. That about sums it up

Plus, the food is dee-licious!!

[Hugin]

24. So, is what she's saying that she spent the money as a means of hiding it?

Ow! OW! The stupid! It buuurns! OMG! OW! Ooooch! Auugh! MAKE.IT.STOP!

[Eleanors38]

25. Well, that should be.... good enough for MSM. Next!

[Baitball Blogger]

26. Oh Pam Bondi,

...you're so Florida.

[saltpoint]

27. It's been a year of Bundys and

Bondis. Of fraud at Wells Fargo and Volkswagon. And ongoing crap media coverage of events.

How about on election night the voters reject Trump-Pence and elect Clinton-Kaine?

Because we need some good news.

[lpbk2713]

32. " ... proud of the work that WE do.”

Sounds like she intends to drag everyone else down with her.

[Warren DeMontague]

33. "now if you'll excuse me, I have more cancer grannies I need to prosecute for eating pot brownies"

[muriel_volestrangler]

34. It was money from a charity, used for political purposes. That itself is improper

even before you decide if there was a quid pro quo. Some people might not realise that, but Bondi claims to have legal knowledge, and to be an "attorney general". She's claiming she is proud she is clueless about the law, rather than admitting she know it was illegal.

[central scrutinizer]

35. Auditioning for Florida Woman

https://mobile.twitter.com/_flor1dawoman

[lpbk2713]

36. Kick

I hope this becomes the story that won't go away.

Bondi works under Rick Scott so this Trump story
is bound to be just the tip of the iceberg.

[LisaL]

37. And what does keeping the money makes her look like?

[JoePhilly]

39. You actually got caught. It doesn't just "look like" it. You. Got. Caught.