The Attorney General Pam Bondi prepared for the challenges of the Democrats in the Senate, using rapid liners and has prepared arguments to dodge issues on Epstein’s investigation, deployments of the National Guard and the accusations that she used the Ministry of Justice for political purposes.
The Attorney General asked questions about his dismissal of the main prosecutors for what the Democrats allege were political reasons, saying: “The question of the staff I have at the moment is that all my agents, all my lawyers, work … Without payroll because your party has voted to close the federal government.”
While the Democratic Senators pushed it on President Donald Trump’s bonds with the accused of the sexual journey Jeffrey Epstein, the Attorney General said on several occasions that these same Democrats had links with another alleged partner of Epstein, the founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman.
She also asked why the Democrats had not raised concerns about the Epstein investigation before her mandate, at some point, defying the senators with “Did you ask Merrick Garland of all this in the past four years when he sat down in front of you?”
And when the Senator of Illinois, Dick Durbin, pushed Bondi on the legal justification for having sent Durbin National Guard troops against the wishes of the Governor, the Attorney General brought back: “I want you to love Chicago as much as you hate President Trump.”
In an exchange during which the Senator of Rhode Island, Sheldon Whitehouse, accused Emil Bove for lack of prosecution during his brief passage as the principal assistant prosecutor, Bondi interrupted Whitehouse to say that his “time has expired”.
After the shocked democrat resumed his time and said that the Attorney General could answer the question, Bondi was ready: “To correct you for a moment, it would be the honorable judge Emil J Bove III for you.”
