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Longtime Donald Trump ally Pam Bondi was a prosecutor in Hillsborough County for more than 18 years and was Florida's first female attorney general.

After former Rep. Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration, President-elect Donald Trump named Pam Bondi, a former attorney general of Florida, as his next pick for U.S. attorney general. Bondi is from Tampa and a former Hillsborough prosecutor.

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped four Florida Republicans to high-level roles in his administration. None of them have gotten as much national attention as his decision to select now-former Panhandle Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz to be the U.S. Attorney General.

His reputation as a national security hawk and embrace of Trump's plans for mass deportations is likely to alienate even some U.S. allies in the region unwilling to fall in line with the incoming president’s America First foreign policy.

President-elect Trump has pledged to deport millions of undocumented migrants — including a million in Florida — but the immigrants most vulnerable to his sweep may actually be those who are here legally.

With Sen. Marco Rubio tapped to be the next secretary of state, Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general, and Rep. Mike Waltz as national security adviser, Trump’s Florida picks are opening up a slate of new political possibilities in the state.

A video of Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaking in glowing terms about the Heritage Foundation was filmed in 2015, eight years before the conservative think tank published Project 2025, a policy blueprint for a Republican president

President-elect Donald Trump has named Sen. Marco Rubio as his choice for secretary of state.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said: "Few issues in America are more important than ending the partisan Weaponization of our Justice System." Gaetz said he would resign from the House, effective immediately.

Decisions to appoint U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio as secretary of state, U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general and U.S. Rep. Michael Waltz as national security adviser will send ripples through Florida politics.

Former leader of Proud Boys Enrique Tarrio that could be eligible for a presidential pardon after being charged with “seditious conspiracy” for his role in planning Jan. 6.

President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House could mean a push to revoke a federal directive for hospitals to provide emergency abortions. Eased access of abortion pills could also be at risk.