Washington – former Prosecutor General Florida, Pamela Jo Bondi, is one step closer to managing the US Department of Justice after Senators on Wednesday aroused her nomination.
Legislators in the Senate Judiciary Commission he voted Along the party line, 12-10 to send Bondi nomination to the full senate. The final vote for the election of President Donald Trump for the US prosecutor general has not yet been planned.
The chairwoman of the Chuck Grassley committee from Iów spoke before voting to deal with “some attacks on Mrs. Bondi”, including her answers to the member questions of the Democratic Committee asking for the statement that Trump lost the presidential election in 2020.
“Several members of this committee characterized Mrs. Bondi as denying elections. This is incompatible with her own statements, because many times during the interrogation of Mrs. Bondi stated that Biden is the president and that by quoting Unquote, she “accepted the results,” said Grassley.
Grassley also slammed the criticism of Democrats that Bondi’s loyalty to Trump “disqualifies”.
“The president has the right to choose the Prosecutor General, who is loyal and faithfully performed the vision of America, on which this president ran,” said Grassley.
The most critical Democrat of the Committee, Dick Durbin from Illinois, said that the recent Department of Justice of Trump firing They only strengthen the fears.
“As I said during the interrogation of Mrs. Bondi, it is absolutely critical that everyone nominated for the position is mainly committed to the Constitution and the American nation, not the president and his political program. Unfortunately, I am not convinced that Mrs. Bondi shares my belief – said Durbin.
January 6 pardon
Senators asked Bondi for almost five hours on January 15, before the inauguration of Trump and his vortex on executive orders, which included grabbing all accused of January 6.
The career prosecutor faced questions about how he would advise Trump on pardoning brutal criminals who attacked law enforcement agencies while having broken into the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
“I do not intend to speak on behalf of the president, but the president also does not like people who abuse police officers,” Bondi told Senator Lindsey Graham from southern Carolina when he asked her about the expected pardon.
Graham later he spoke against Trump’s pardon for brutal capital units.
Trump Revenge
Democrats also pressed Bondi during the interrogation whether he would refuse Trump’s request to issue political revenge against their political enemies.
At the beginning of December Electronics he said NBC News “Meet the Press with Kristen Welker” that democratic Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson and former representative of Liz Cheney of Wyoming “should go to prison.” Thompson presided over, and Cheney co -chairmen to the US Choice Committee to examine the attack on January 6.
Biden awarded all members of the Committee on January 6 ahead of pardon a few hours before leaving the White House.
Grassley said on Wednesday before voting for Bondi that “there is no reason to think that he would not follow the law.”
Bondi was a voice waist About Trump’s false claims that he won the presidential election in 2020 in Pennsylvania. She also advised Trump during the first impeachment process in 2019.
Bondi served as the best law enforcement officer in Florida in 2011–2019 and for 18 years as a prosecutor in Hillsborough.
Bondi, an experienced practicing law, was not the first choice of Trump to manage the Department of Justice. Rather, the president initially chose Matt GaetzFormer Congressmen in Florida accused of sex with minors. Gaetz gave up the house in the USA a few hours after Trump chose him and He withdrew His name from AG lasts a week later.
Last updated 12:49, January 29, 2025
