[6] Bondi prosecuted former Major League Baseball player Dwight Gooden in 2006 for violating the terms of his probation and for substance abuse.

[9] Bondi ran for Florida attorney general in the 2010 election, facing off against former state representative Holly Benson and lieutenant governor Jeff Kottkamp in the Republican primary.

The Palm Beach Post credited her surge in support in the primary to her media-savviness, including regular appearances on Fox News and her public association with Sean Hannity.

[10] In the general election, she faced Democratic nominee Dan Gelber, a former prosecutor who spent 10 years in the state legislature.

[14] Bondi was the lead attorney general in an unsuccessful lawsuit seeking to overturn the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (known as Obamacare) in Florida et al v. United States Department of Health and Human Services.

[16][17] In 2016, Bondi gave a speech at the Republican National Convention, during which she led "lock her up" chants directed at the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

[18] In 2018, Bondi joined with 19 other Republican-led states in a lawsuit to overturn the ACA's bans on health insurance companies charging people with pre-existing conditions higher premiums or denying them coverage outright.

A spokesperson for Bondi announced that her office was considering joining a lawsuit initiated by Eric Schneiderman, the attorney general of New York, regarding tax fraud potential charges against Trump.

[35][36] Four days later And Justice for All, a political action committee established by Bondi to support her re-election, received a $25,000 donation from the Donald J. Trump Foundation.

In November 2019, Trump was ordered by a New York state court to close down the foundation and pay $2 million in damages for misusing it, including the illegal donation to Bondi.

[47] In 2019, after her final term as Florida attorney general, Bondi was hired by Ballard Partners, a firm with close ties to Trump, and she began working as a registered foreign agent as a lobbyist for the Embassy of the State of Qatar.

[48][49] She left the Qatari project in 2019 to work in a temporary position for the White House Counsel for President Trump's first impeachment proceedings.

It was also revealed that Lev Parnas, a businessman with close ties to Rudy Giuliani and Ukraine, had several meetings with Bondi in 2018 while she was the Florida attorney general, and after she left office in 2019.

[66][67] In 2019, Parnas was arrested and accused of illegally funneling foreign money from Ukrainians and Russians to Republican politicians, particularly in Florida, where he lived.

[74] While ballots were being counted in the 2020 United States presidential election, Bondi supported Trump's claims that there was large-scale voter fraud in Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

[75][76] In an appearance on Fox News on November 5, 2020, host Steve Doocy challenged Bondi to provide evidence for her claims of fraud, which she refused to do.

[77] Bondi later claimed that Trump had won Pennsylvania, despite votes there still being counted, with his opponent Joe Biden ultimately winning the state.

[80] On November 21, 2024, president-elect Trump announced she would be nominated for United States attorney general, after the withdrawal of Matt Gaetz for that position.

[84] On the first day of hearings, the committee presented the question of why the above two lobbyist projects, The GEO Group and Qatar, were not reported as potential conflicts of interest.

According to the committee website, Bondi did not present the following issues pertaining to her work as a partner with Ballard Partners:[85] Bondi disclosed to the Senate Judiciary committee and the designated ethics official at the U.S. Department of Justice the compensation for her consulting services to Renatus Advisors LLC of Puerto Rico in shares and stock warrants for the merger of Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC) and Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT), which were in turn converted to shares and warrants of DJT on the day of the merger.

[102][103] On Bondi's first day in office, she issued orders that directed a select group on the "weaponization" of the federal government to investigate former Special counsel Jack Smith, required the Justice Department to prioritize assisting with President Trump's plan for mass deportations, prohibited DOJ lawyers from refusing to involve themselves in actions they considered to be unethical, reevaluated consent decrees and settlements with the Justice Department to ensure the prevention of "race- or sex-based preferences, diversity hiring targets, or preferential treatment based on DEI- or DEIA-related criteria", ended the moratorium on federal executions and ordered the Justice Department to assist state and local prosecutors in their attempts to secure death sentences, and halted DOJ funds to sanctuary cities.