Tina Peters’ lawyer and Trump ally Peter Ticktin announced on the extremist website The Gateway Pundit that he wants Trump to appoint him to replace Pam Bondi as U.S. Attorney General. (AG)
Trump fired Bondi on April 2, 2026. Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal attorney, who was Deputy Attorney General under Bondi, is now acting U.S. Attorney General.
Ticktin, an election denier and high school friend of Trump, has had his law license suspended by the Florida Bar twice, once in June of 2009 for 91 days and a second time for 15 days. The first suspension was over a conflict of interest with a client who previously owned a business Ticktin took over, and the second was for paying a New York lawyer living in Florida a referral fee.
In a December 4, 2026 podcast by right wing nut Joe Oltmann, Ticktin threatened the judges and elected officials who enforced the law against Tina, saying a “hanging party is coming.”
Ticktin is also the author of the controversial draft executive order (EO) that tells Trump to declare a national emergency as a way to seize unprecedented control over voting nationally. Legal experts widely view the proposed EO as unconstitutional.
Like Trump, Ticktin is obsessed with reopening investigations into the 2020 election, aggressively targeting Trump’s political opponents and pursuing claims of massive election fraud that have long been debunked.
If Ticktin succeeds in getting appointed AG, it will pose extreme danger for the country and for democracy.
Democracy Docket writes that,
“Ticktin isn’t just interested in relitigating the 2020 election — he’s proposing to build it into the mission of DOJ itself. His agenda also includes investigating a wide range of political figures, issuing sweeping pardons to allies and compensating those he views as victims, including individuals convicted in connection with the Jan. 6 attack. It is, in effect, a vision of DOJ not as an independent law enforcement agency, but as a vehicle for the election denial movement — one that would revisit past grievances while expanding federal power over future elections.”
Democracy Docket also writes, however, that “Ticktin’s chances of becoming attorney general are practically nonexistent.”