Who Will Replace U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions After the November Mid Term Elections

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Let’s start something big — Pam Bondi for U.S. Attorney General – to replace the more than likely out going U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. There’s been a lot of speculation about who President Donald Trump might nominate for U.S. Senate confirmation to head the U.S. Department of Justice after Sessions bows out with a resignation or gets fired but his demise will happen shortly after the midterm national election now only one-week away – no matter how that goes for the Republicans — Sessions is a goner.

Among those that may be named are U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), who is not seeking reelection, and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christi, but not Bondi, who is the current Florida Attorney General. Nobody is talking about her – at least not yet.

Bondi, 52, has been a long-time supporter of President Trump and she frequently appears with the president at various events around the nation and at the White House. On March 14, 2016 she endorsed the president for the Florida presidential primary that Trump won. She was the first female to hold Florida’s office of Attorney General — a post she has held onto since 2011. Extremely popular with voters Bondi won the post in 2010 and again in 2014 with landslide victories of more than 13-percent over her opponents.

Twice divorced, Bondi was recently in the news for being harassed at a restaurant and again at a movie with her boyfriend as a result of the anti-Trump haters harassing anyone connected to the Trump administration and congressional Republicans. These type events have been all over mainstream media in recent months.

The reasons for Sessions to be replaced pretty much center around his recusal from any investigations of anything connected to the presidential campaign of 2016 in which he was the first major supporter of candidate Trump. He recused himself just after been confirmed by the U.S. Senate. His action led to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein controversial appointment to oversee the ongoing Russia/Trump campaign collusion investigation by former FBI Director Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

President Trump on numerous occasions has publicly denounced Sessions for his recusal saying that he never would have appointed him in the first place had he known his intentions beforehand. So who will replace Sessions? Sometimes the obvious is hard to see hiding in plain sight, but Bondi may be the one. She has an impressive legal resume having worked her way up the ladder in prosecutor’s offices in Florida then winning election to Florida Attorney General. She knows the judicial system as well as anyone.

If Bondi is appointed to serve as U.S. Attorney General and depending how the midterm elections turn out her U.S. Senate hearings could be just as miserable as those recent nasty U.S. Supreme Court hearings for federal Judge Brett Kavanaugh from a couple months ago. Or her confirmation could be smooth if the Republicans improve their numbers in the Senate next week beyond the current 51.

Bondi could be the one President Trump wants to go after the criminal misdeeds of Hillary Clinton and her campaign, the Democratic National Committee, the fake dossier and FBI/DOJ involvement, the Uranium One Deal, the Clinton Foundation and all their combined shenanigans.

There is a lot on the line coming up Nov. 6. Certainly on the minds of voters will be the sad mass killings of Jewish citizens in Pittsburgh including a 97-year-old Holocaust survivor — and the fake serial bomber from Florida — and the ‘caravan’ of Central Americans that have turned down compassionate asylum in Mexico hell bent on a confrontation at the USA/Mexico border – and sanctuary cities offering protection to illegals including convicted criminals – and the concept of open borders – and Socialism spreading across the USA … and … and … .

So what do we make of all the recent events that have captured the headlines? Anyone with a lick of common sense will send the House and Senate Democrats packing their bags for that last flight out of Washington.

About the Author Britt Nelson relocated to Costa Rica in 2011 from Florida, where he served as news editor for the Palatka Daily News, a newspaper owned by the New York Times Regional Newspaper Group (NYT-RNG) for 20 years.

Nelson served the NYT-RNG for 18 years in Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida as a correspondent, reporter, staff writer, senior staff writer training new reporters, copy editor, page designer, editorial writer, editorial page editor and editorial board member.

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