Pam Bondi Played to Trump During Attorney General Confirmation Hearing
By: Ryan Bort (Rolling Stone)
2020 election denying is the litmus test for the new maga royalty ...
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Donald Trump has repeatedly bashed Bill Barr since the former attorney general refused to buy into the lie that the 2020 election was rigged. He won't have that problem with Pam Bondi, should the Senate confirm her as the new leader of the Justice Department.
In the aftermath of Trump's loss to Joe Biden in 2020, Bondi tried to advance the former president's baseless claims of election fraud, and falsely claimed that Trump "won Pennsylvania."
When asked during her confirmation hearing on Wednesday whether she was prepared to say Trump lost the 2020 election, Bondi refused to do so. The former Florida attorney general and Trump impeachment lawyer only acknowledged that Joe Biden is the president and that he was "duly sworn in."
She added that "there was a peaceful transition of power," despite the violence that unfolded when Trump's supporters forcibly broke into the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as Congress prepared to certify Biden's win.
"I accept that Joe Biden is president of the United States," she continued, adding that as an "advocate" for Trump's campaign in Pennsylvania, she "saw many things there." She maintained, though, that she accepts the results. "Do I agree with what happened? I saw so much — no one from either side of the aisle should want there to be any issues with election integrity in our country."
"I think that question deserved a yes or no, and I think the length of your answer is an indication that you weren't prepared to answer yes," replied Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Bondi's fealty to Trump was of great concern to the Democrats grilling her, and at just about every turn she denied having knowledge about highly publicized comments made by Trump, or said she wasn't going to answer hypothetical questions about the actions she could take as attorney general.
She said wasn't familiar with Trump's statement calling Jan. 6 rioters "hostages" and "patriots," nor was she familiar with Trump saying that undocumented immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country." She also pleaded ignorance when asked about Trump's call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which he asked for the election official to "find" the votes he needed to surpass Biden's 2020 vote total in the state.
When asked whether Jan. 6 rioters who violently assaulted Capitol Police officers should be pardoned, as Trump has pledged, Bondi didn't say no, but that she will "look at each and every file." She was evasive when Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) asked her about her own comments about going after "bad" prosecutors. Trump has repeatedly expressed a desire to investigate those involved in his own criminal cases.
"Is Jack Smith one of those bad prosecutors that you will prosecute?" Hirono asked, going on to ask about former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Attorney General Merrick Garland.
"I am not going to answer hypotheticals," Bondi said.
Hirono also asked Bondi about the 2020 election. "Who won the 2020 presidential election?" she asked, to which Bondi said again that "Joe Biden is the president of the United States."
"I can say that Donald Trump won the 2024 election," Hirono said. "I may not like it, but I can say it. You cannot say who cannot say who won the 2020 presidential election."
Bondi responded with silence.
Bondi did, however, tout Trump's "landslide" 2024 win on multiple occasions during the hearing.
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I imagine her purchase price is now higher than the $25K trump paid her to drop florida's fraud case against trump university ...
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Yup, a cheap purchase but as with some others her price has gone up.
a past history of deception, corruption, and unwavering loyalty are the requirements for every trump appointee ...
plus a documented history of buying trump merch ...
In a sane world all of this would be more than enough to deny her confirmation.
John, I firmly believe that if she and all of his appointees were to fully denounce Trump, call him a traitor and say he should be in jail, you would continue to call her and all Trump appointees liars and not fit for whatever job they were nominated for.
That is a novel way of defending her lying to Congress.
What else can they do?
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Just like, during the confirmation hearings, all Trump's picks for SCOTUS stated that they had no intention of overturning Roe v Wade? Then at 1st opportunity, they overturned it despite decades of previous case law that upheld it?
Trump's picks have universally shown a willingness to lie and cheat to get their cushy appointments and go back on anything they said prior to that. Just like Trump himself.
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Bondi will know from day one that she will be required to do what Trump wants, OR she will be removed.
Her "independence" is a mirage.
Recognize that yours is a highly insulting personal comment. You are making a derogatory declaration of JRs character. Not his comment, but about him personally.
JR appropriately noted that Bondi refused to even acknowledge that Biden was the legitimately elected PotUS. This is really a sick situation where people in the highest positions of government must continue an absurd lie because Trump's ego cannot stand the fact that he lost in 2020.
Trump is nothing but bad news for our nation. This is yet another example of same.
Nomination Hearings for Supreme Court Justices
Though I don't know why I bother. Whenever I provide links I get deny, disparage, or deflect from the right wing crowds.
Already told you, Roe v Wade....
Once confirmed she will receive a couple presents, courtesy of Trump.
add some tic tacs and lip balm to those 2 items and you have the trump inauguration gift bag ...
They're not including any Viagra this time? Gaetz will be disappointed...
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you may be confused. after the inauguration, those that are "asking for it" will be required to supply it ...
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You made it personal with JR.
The comment you are responding to there is why NT cant have nice things.
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Yep, bottom line is no matter what Bondi says or [✘] I watched part of her hearings and the fact is Bindi made Hirono and Schiff look like idiots, especially Hirono because some of the questions she asked were way out there and hardly germane to Bondi's nomination.
How could she not know or be unfamiliar with his words? She's blatantly lying and should never hold any public office. But the sycophants in Congress will confirm like they will every one of his picks
If one or more Ds confirm her, are they sycophants too?
no, they're traitors. aren't you the same guy in meta that says I delete all conservative comments?
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She is either lying, brain dead, incompetent or all of the above. In any case she is not qualified to serve the American people.
What things? Be specific. Ms. Bondi. Damn, they should let me ask questions
her real "job" will be in the oval office ...
Her AG office will be vastly different from any we've seen before
not really, there's pictures of bunny ranch bedrooms and bdsm dungeons on the internet ...
"You just pucker up your lips and blow"...Lauren Bacall
I don’t doubt her competency for the job. I doubt her loyalty to the Constitution and the rule of law. There’s is nothing she wouldn’t do for Trump, and that should be disqualifying in an attorney general.
Indeed.
Trump of course, obviously, is picking people based on loyalty to him as criterion number 1. That is dangerous for our nation. This should be obvious but Trump supporters seem to not care.
all trump's appointees are basically just warm meat in the seat. he'll direct and micro-manage each dept.
Yes because no president in the history of this country before Trump has ever picked cabinet members based on loyalty to them s/
Not as the key defining criterion.
You show me a PotUS whose cabinet members care more about loyalty to him personally than to duty, integrity, and fidelity to the CotUS.
Our system is based on supporting and preserving the CotUS and the rule of law. It is based on duty. That is the exact opposite of the systems our founders fled from ... systems where the primary concern was loyalty to the monarch.
It has been pointed out to you many times that several of Biden's cabinet picks have zero experience in the departments they led. Several of them were mega donors to his campaign, nothing more.
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I firmly believe that Ms. Bondi will support the law and defend the Constitution based on her outstanding record. Please keep close track and let us know the first time she does Trump's bidding. Most cabinet members and appointees support the views and agenda of the president who chose them, be they democrat or Republican.
Your speculation is not evidence.
Of course you do. The fact that you have beliefs is not relevant.
What if I told you most Americans believe that in their most common religious ritual they drink the blood of and consume the body of a man who has been magically arisen from the dead, like a zombie?
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Oddly, I find it stranger that anyone believes that Trump is good for this nation.
She did Trump’s bidding yesterday, when she refused - multiple times - to acknowledge that he had lost the 2020 election.
She did it again when she implausibly claimed that she was “unfamiliar” with Trump asking the Georgia Secretary of State to find him the votes he needed.
All of this done while under oath.
No doubt she is going to be a terrible Attorney General. She might even make John Mitchell look good.
I actually think she’d probably be a competent AG, until something political comes up. Then, I fear she’ll do anything Trump asks.
from what she said in her confirmation hearing, she seems more than willing to strap on the knee pads ...
She may have the competence to be Attorney General, but I don't expect anything worthwhile to come of that.
I agree. Any nominee who would refuse to acknowledge that Biden was legitimately elected in 2020 is not going to operate objectively ... they will almost certainly kowtow to Trump. And that, of course, is Trump's key consideration.