But the president’s contempt for the law also played out in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday, where Attorney General Pam Bondi repeatedly defied Senate Democrats’ attempts to ask her basic questions about the operations of her office. It started with the very first Senate Democrat, Dick Durbin, who asked Bondi who had ordered the FBI to flag any mentions of Trump in the Epstein files. Senator Adam Schiff listed 11 questions that Bondi had refused to answer, from whether border czar Tom Homan kept the $50,000 he allegedly nabbed in an FBI sting operation (she deflected all questions about Homan’s behavior), whether Bondi discussed indicting former FBI director James Comey with Trump, Trump’s outrageous demand on Truth Social that she prosecute Comey, Attorney General Letitia James, and Schiff himself, and whether she fired career prosecutors for working on investigations related to January 6.
Author: Joan Walsh
Published at: 2025-10-08 20:59:42
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