During her confirmation hearing on Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi refused multiple times to acknowledge Donald Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election, employing the standard Republican dodge of observing in various ways that Joe Biden is currently the president: Biden was “sworn in,” Trump “left office,” and that there was a “peaceful transition of power,” she said at one point.
Bondi will be entrusted with a massive amount of power if confirmed as attorney general, and will be set to serve a president who campaigned in large part on using the DOJ to go after his political enemies. She’ll be leading a DOJ that itself spent the last several years investigating and prosecuting the January 6 rioters, and which dropped two federal indictments of Trump after he won the November 2024 election. Trump spent nearly his entire first term trying to treat the DOJ as a law firm that was representing him, and which also had the power to bring criminal cases; Bondi represented Trump during the first impeachment while she was in private practice.
It’s a bizarre situation that all but guarantees a basically irreconcilable conflict of interest from the start. When asked by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-VT) about past comments that prosecutors would be prosecuted, she replied: “I said that on TV, I said that prosecutors will be prosecuted if bad,” and said she would go after those who supposedly broke the law during the course of investigations. On pardons for those who participated in Jan. 6, Bondi also avoided a straight answer: “I will look at each case and advise on a case-by-case basis, just as I did my entire career as a prosecutor.”
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The hearing is set to begin at 9:30 a.m. ET. Watch here.
Read Bondi's questionnaire answers here.
During her confirmation hearing on Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi refused multiple times to acknowledge Donald Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election, employing the standard Republican dodge of observing in various ways that Joe Biden is currently the president: Biden was “sworn in,” Trump “left office,” and that there was a “peaceful transition of power,” she said at one point.
Bondi will be entrusted with a massive amount of power if confirmed as attorney general, and will be set to serve a president who campaigned in large part on using the DOJ to go after his political enemies. She’ll be leading a DOJ that itself spent the last several years investigating and prosecuting the January 6 rioters, and which dropped two federal indictments of Trump after he won the November 2024 election. Trump spent nearly his entire first term trying to treat the DOJ as a law firm that was representing him, and which also had the power to bring criminal cases; Bondi represented Trump during the first impeachment while she was in private practice.
It’s a bizarre situation that all but guarantees a basically irreconcilable conflict of interest from the start. When asked by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-VT) about past comments that prosecutors would be prosecuted, she replied: “I said that on TV, I said that prosecutors will be prosecuted if bad,” and said she would go after those who supposedly broke the law during the course of investigations. On pardons for those who participated in Jan. 6, Bondi also avoided a straight answer: “I will look at each case and advise on a case-by-case basis, just as I did my entire career as a prosecutor.”
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I have first-hand information that Bondi is a dumbass. My source is pleased by his belief that she will be confirmed.
Oh goody! It’s the Pam Bondi hour!!!
Goes back to bed…
Wait… I need a cat picture…
Well, Bondi was nominated by DonOLD Dumbass hisownself, so how could she be anything but another dumbass.
As some wise person said,
Dumbass Prime is a Gentleman’s “C” on his best days, and it’s been a while since he had even a good day.
Putting a dumb person in charge of the Department of Justice is better than the alternative.
Given the tenor of the above, I have no choice but to repost @Scoutmom 's dubious gift to me yesterday - Red Forman’s Complete DUMB ASS! Collection
And further, to note that the R’s on Judiciary Committee include a goodly number of them.
ETA: I’m not sure I can watch this with Grassley in the chair.