MSNBC contributor warns ‘we should all fear’ Trump’s new AG pick Pam Bondi ‘because she’s competent’

College prof and MSNBC contributor Jason Johnson warned that President-Elect Donald Trump’s caller prime to pb the Justice Department should spark "fear" among the near due to the fact that she could really execute his agenda.

Trump announced Thursday evening that he's nominating erstwhile lawyer wide of Florida Pam Bondi arsenic the adjacent lawyer wide of the United States. The latest furniture prime replaces erstwhile Florida typical Matt Gaetz, who withdrew arsenic nominee for lawyer wide connected Thursday aft the "distraction" his information had caused owed to a swirl of allegations astir paying underage women for sex.

Johnson told MSNBC big Ari Melber that this is atrocious quality for those acrophobic astir Trump.

"Occasionally, attorneys wide effort to behave similar they are not the idiosyncratic lawyer of the President of the United States. That is wholly retired the window. Pam Bondi is precisely what I was saying successful the past conception that we should each fear, due to the fact that she's competent," helium said.

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College prof Jason Johnson argued Trump's caller prime for the Justice Department is really a overmuch much sinister choice. (MSNBC)

"We whitethorn not hold with her ideologically, but she really knows however to bash this job," Johnson told Melber, adding, "So if anyone connected the Democratic broadside oregon anyone who cared astir liberty oregon justness was reasoning ‘Well possibly Matt Gaetz volition screw this up and that volition springiness america time,’ no. Pam Bondi knows what she is doing."

He went connected to archer the quality big that her relation with Florida’s authorities indicates she knows however to usage authorities powerfulness to execute blimpish agendas.

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"She knows what she's doing astir immigration. Remember, Florida is 1 of those states that has been precise assertive astir migrants and deportation and moving radical to antithetic states and everything other similar that. Florida has enacted each sorts of rules and laws to curtail students and what they tin bash connected campuses and uncovering ineligible justifications for manipulating acquisition money," Johnson said. 

He continued, "She is simply a unsafe and effectual pick, and that’s frankly worse than what we would person got with Matt Gaetz, adjacent with the deplorable motivation inheritance that helium has."

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Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi stands connected signifier successful an bare Mellon Auditorium portion addressing the Republican National Convention connected August 25, 2020 successful Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

As Johnson mentioned, helium had warned astir the conception of a much experienced prime successful a erstwhile segment, arguing it would beryllium a acold much frightening prime for those wary of Trump’s agenda.

"It is, but I conjecture I’m from the position of, I ne'er needfully thought that Matt Gaetz was a sincere pick. Trump tin telephone each helium wants, but I fishy determination were many, galore radical lined up to travel aft him who won’t beryllium arsenic offensive, who mightiness really beryllium much effective," helium said. 

"So portion it mightiness beryllium a nonaccomplishment successful the battle, I don’t needfully deliberation it’s a triumph successful the warfare against what whitethorn beryllium an AG that ushers successful an authoritarian benignant of presidency that affects the cardinal rights of American citizens," Johnson added.

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