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Ted Deutch and Lois Frankel call for investigations into Donald Trump-Pam Bondi matter
Florida Democratic U.S. Reps. Ted Deutch and Lois Frankel called Tuesday for someone to investigate the Donald Trump–Pam Bondi matter that Deutch said “looked like a bribe.”
In a telephone press conference with Florida media organized by the Democratic National Committee, Deutch and Frankel insisted more needs to be revealed about the $25,000 donation Trump’s Trump Foundation made to Bondi’s 2014 attorney general re-election campaign just as her office was looking into alleged fraud complaints about his Trump University.
Trump has insisted there was no quid-pro-quo. And Bondi insisted her office’s decision to not investigate the complaints did not reach her desk, and had nothing to do with Trump’s donation — a contribution later determined by the Internal Revenue Service to be improperly made.
In a development unrelated to the Deutch-Frankel press conference, the matter now has been referred to the U.S. Department of Justice. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington announced Tuesday it has filed a complaint against Bondi, Trump and the Trump Foundation, and called for an investigation into whether the Trump Foundation broke federal criminal law by making false reports to the IRS. - FloridaPolitics.com
More complaints against Trump & Bondi's #BondiGate quid-pro-quo.