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Trump’s Dealings With Florida AG Drawing More Scrutiny

Hank Berrien

Donald Trump’s courtship of Florida attorney general, Pam Bondi, whose office was reviewing fraud allegations at Trump University, is drawing more intense scrutiny after it was revealed he donated $25,000 to her political committee in 2013 before she then decided to refuse to press charges against Trump University.

Trump paid a $2,500 penalty to the Internal Revenue Service over the 2013 campaign gift. That gift may have been prompted by a story in The Orlando Sentinel only days before that the New York State attorney general’s office had sued Trump University and Bondi’s office was deciding whether to join the lawsuit.

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