Washington – Atti. General Pam Bondi abused a defiant tone on Tuesday during a hearing in the Senate, where she dodged a number of questions about brewing scandals that pursued her agency.
Bondi, Loyalist Trump, refused to discuss her conversations with the White House about Recent accusation of the former FBI director James Komi and the deployment of federal troops in cities controlled by democrats.
She rejected questions about the alleged bribery scheme with the participation of the presidential border adviser and refused to clarify Her handling of Jeffrey Epstein.
In many cases, the testimony of Bonda before the Court of Judicial Committee turned into personal attacks on the Democrats, who expressed confusion of their inability to force her to answer their investigations.
“It is assumed that this will be a hearing about the supervision at which the members of the congress can receive serious answers to serious questions about the concealment of corruption about the judicial persecution of the enemies of the president,” said Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) By the end of an almost five-hour hearing. “When will the members of this committee at the bicopartican base require answers to these questions?”
Her testimony became the Ministry of Justice persons increased the accusations that it was armed Against the political enemies of President Trump.
This marked the continuation of what was a distinctive feature of not only Bond, but also most high -ranking Trump officials. When he insisted on potential scandals, which the president made great efforts to publicly avoid, they almost everywhere turn to the same tactics: they ignore and attack the asker.
This strategy was shown in the exchange between Senator Alex Palif., Who wanted to know who decided to close the investigation of the border adviser Trump Tom Homan. Guman According to reports, they accepted $ 50,000 in cash From the secret agents of the FBI, after indicating, he can receive state contracts to them. Bondy refused to say and shifted the focus on Padilla.
“I would like you to love your condition of California as much as you hate President Trump,” Bondi said. “Then we would be in good shape, because violent crimes in California are currently 35% higher than the national average.”
In between partisan attacks, the hearing in Congress allowed Bond to boast for about eight months in office. She said that she was focused on combating illegal immigration, violent crime and restoring public confidence in the Ministry of Justice, which, according to her, is Bidden officials armed against Trump.
“They wanted to distract President Trump from the game field,” she said about the efforts on charges of Trump. “This is the behavior that destroys the faith of the American people in our system of law enforcement agencies. We will work to earn it back every day. We are returning to our main mission of fighting a real crime. ”
She defended the deployment of the federal troops of the administration in Washington, the district of Colombia and Chicago, where, according to her, the troops were sent on Tuesday. Bondy refused to inform whether the White House consulted about the deployment of troops into American cities, but said that efforts are intended to “protect” citizens from violent crimes.
Senator Chris Kuns (D-Del.) Asked about the legal excuse for Military shooting of the court, crossing the sea of Carribban from Venezuela. The administration said that the boats were carrying drugs, but Kuns told Bondi that “Congress never allowed such a use of military force.”
“It is not clear to me how the administration came to the conclusion that the blows are legal,” Kuns said.
Bondi told Kuns that she would not discuss the legal advice that her department gave the president on this issue, but said that Venezuela President Nicholas Maduros “is a drug train”, and that “drugs from Venezuela kill our children at a record level.”
Kuns said that he was “seriously concerned”, that she did not lead the Department, which makes decisions that “support the main values of the Constitution”. As an example, he indicated that Trump calls on her to pursue his political opponents, such as Komi.
Senator Dick Durbin (d -ll.) The main democrat in the committee caused a similar concern at the beginning of the hearing, saying that Bondy “systematically armed the leading law enforcement agency of our country to protect President Trump and his allies.”
“In eight short months, you fundamentally transformed the Ministry of Justice and left a huge spot on American history,” Durbin said. “It will take decades.”
