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Candidate for US Attorney General Pam Bondi clashed with a senior Democratic senator on Wednesday during her confirmation hearing to lead the Department of Justice (DOJ).
Bondi was forced to defend President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the FBI. Kash Patelwhen Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., pressed her about her earlier comments.
He referenced Patel’s suggestion to close FBI headquarters and threaten an “enemies list,” among other comments.
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President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee Pam Bondi and Sen. Richard Blumenthal clashed during her confirmation hearing. (Getty Images)
“Is he a person who should properly be the director of the FBI? Aren’t those comments inappropriate? Shouldn’t you deny them and ask him to retract them?” Blumenthal hammered.
Bondi responded: “Senator, I am not familiar with all of these comments. I have not discussed these comments with Mr. Patel.”
“As far as I know, it’s Mr. Patel…” she began before Blumenthal tried to cut her off.
Bondi went on: “Forgive me. What I do know is that Mr. Patel was a career prosecutor. He was a career public defender, he defended people. And he also has a lot of experience within the intelligence community.”
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“What I can sit here and tell you is, Mr. Patel, if you work with the FBI leadership, if you’re confirmed, and if I’m confirmed, you’re going to follow the law. If I’m the attorney general of the United States. of America , and I don’t think I would do anything differently,” Bondi said.
Blumenthal responded: “Well, let me say that the response I would have expected from you is that these comments are inappropriate and that you will ask him to deny or retract them when he appears before this committee, because they are in fact, chilling for fair enforcement and the rule of law.”
He comes after Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, DR.I., in the same way pressed Bondi on what Democrats have called Patel’s “enemies list.”
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They refer to a list of 60 people in Patel’s book “Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy” whom he labeled as part of the “deep state.”
Bondi also defended Patel during Whitehouse’s questioning, though he vowed there would never be an “enemies list” at the DOJ.
