The nation’s largest police union endorsed Pam Bondi, President-elect Trump’s pick for attorney general, ahead of her confirmation hearings in the Senate.
In a letter the Trump transition team first shared with The Hill, the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) national president Patrick Yoes expressed “strong support” for Bondi and said she was “a longtime ally of the FOP” from when she served as Florida’s attorney general.
Yoes, in the letter to Trump, said the FOP would work with Bondi on Department of Justice programs to support state and local law enforcement and promote partnerships between state and local agencies and federal counterparts.
“On behalf of the more than 377,000 members of the Fraternal Order of Police, I commend your selection of Ms. Bondi to serve as Attorney General, and we look forward to resuming our partnership with you and your Administration,” Yoes wrote.
Trump nominated Bondi in November after former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) withdrew himself from consideration for the role.
She was a senior adviser on Trump’s first impeachment defense team and was also among a group of Republicans who showed up to support Trump at his New York hush money criminal trial that ended in May with a conviction on 34 felony counts.
“Pam Bondi spent decades fighting crime as a prosecutor and Attorney General in Florida and is historically qualified to serve as Attorney General of the United States,” Trump-Vance transition spokesman Gates McGavick told The Hill in a statement.
“She will be a constant champion for law enforcement officers as she returns the Department of Justice to its core mission of fighting crime, restoring law and order, and keeping Americans safe.”
The FOP endorsed the president-elect in the 2024 election and Trump addressed the group’s gathering in September in Charlotte, N.C.
Trump at the time vowed to sign legislation to “strengthen protections for police officers,” “crack down on Marxist prosecutors,” and he called for a return to “proven crime fighting methods, including stop and frisk and broken windows policing.”
