For hours, Bondi dodged questions from Democratic senators on everything from the Epstein files to Trump’s targeting of his political foes, to what authority the president has to launch fatal strikes against boats he merely claims are trafficking drugs off the coast of Venezuela, to the systematic firing of Justice Department or FBI officials who probed the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6, and more. At one point, Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) — himself a Trump opponent who has been a subject of the president’s political targeting — ran down a laundry list of questions Bondi wouldn’t answer Tuesday, like what role she had in flagging any reference to Trump’s name in the Epstein Files, whether she approved of the mass firing of anyone who criminally investigated Trump at the DOJ or if she supported the creation of a compensation fund for Jan. 6 rioters. Some of the questions are pointed and tough, but her reaction was completely out of line, and her refusal to answer the most basic questions about the issues before the department really left a lot of us feeling that she’s not doing the job she was appointed to,” Durbin said.
Author: Brandi Buchman
Published at: 2025-10-07 21:26:40
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