As speculation swirls around her potential appointment to a post in the Trump administration, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has a message for the pundits handicapping her prospects: don't believe everything you hear.

  • Florida attorney general met with President-elect Trump Friday
  • Bondy remained tight-lipped on what they talked about
  • Bondi speculated for administration job

Returning to the state capitol for a Florida Cabinet meeting Tuesday, Bondi told reporters her meeting with President-elect Donald Trump last Friday was productive and confidential.

"I went to New York at the request of the President of the United States-elect," Bondi said. "I was up there meeting with him, and frankly, I don't think anyone should come out of those meetings and talk about anything that was said in those meetings."

As an unflinching supporter of Trump's at-times improbable march to the presidency, Bondi is widely viewed as a top contender for a high-level administration job. Her work as attorney general to eradicate Florida's 'pill mill' epidemic could make her uniquely qualified to head the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

The drug czar post, however, would require Bondi to win Senate confirmation, a process that could include a potentially grueling confirmation hearing. The Republican attorney general has been accused of turning a blind eye to complaints from some Floridians that the now-defunct Trump University had fleeced them out of thousands of dollars. 

After her political committee accepted an improper $25,000 contribution from Trump's charitable foundation, Bondi's office declined to join a lawsuit, since dismissed, that accused Trump University of fraud.

"This whole thing illustrates the corrupt nature of our campaign finance system and calls into question decisions made by public officials," Ben Wilcox of Integrity Florida said of Bondi's relationship with Trump.

The Trump University scandal has led some political observers to write off Bondi's chances of landing a plum job in Washington. Still, she suggested Tuesday that few people outside the president-elect's tight inner circle have the information needed to make such predictions.

"For what it's worth, I think when people go and to interviews on TV and talk about things, I think they probably don't know what's going on in there," Bondi said.

Bondi also serves on the Trump transition team's executive committee, a role that involves advising the president-elect on potential hires across a range of federal agencies. Her meeting with him included making some of those recommendations.

"All of the above, and that's as much as I'm going to say," she said.