Five Pam Bondi tensions, guerrilla testimony to Senate

Pam Bondi’s certificates to the Senate Committee on Judiciary was expected to be a controversial, guerrilla affair. This has contacted this billing.

The Prosecutor General was making his first expression in hearing a congress supervision – and that was timely.

Two weeks ago her justice Accused former FBR Director James Comtriggering protest by democratic politicians.

Her testimony on Tuesday also came only a day after a group of former Ministry of Justice officials released a letter accused of Bondi that it helps to take Sledgehammer of “long -standing work that the department has done to protect the communities and the rule of law.”

The nerves were raw and Bondi was clearly ready for battle. Here are five take over from the hearing.

The latest employees of the Trump Administration, including Health Secretary, Robert F Kennedy, Jr., and FBI Director Kash Patel, have relied on a clear gaming book to evidence in front of the Congress Committees.

Go to the attack early and often.

This strategy was exposed through Bondi’s testimony. When pressed against the deployment of the National Guard, she said that she wished to Illinois Senator Dick Durbin and California Senator Alex Padila loved their states “as much as Donald Trump hate.”

When she was questioned about Jeffrey Epstein, she noted that several democratic senators had taken money from donors with deep pockets that had relationships with the late convicted sexual traffic.

Bondi started a series of sharpened attacks against senators as they questioned her.

And when the time comes the junior Senator Vermont Peter Welch to ask questions, he began by watching Bondi’s tendency to launch personal attacks.

“I’m going to wait for my turn,” said the new Anglander said softly. “But you don’t have to do it now.”

When Bondi was not involved in the attack, she often refused to comment on questions from both Democrats and Republicans.

She said she would not discuss “staff questions” when she was questioned about the dismissal of the dismissal of the Ministry of Higher Level, including top FBI officials and a US lawyer who recommended Kom’s charge.

She would not comment on “continued investigations” and court proceedings – including the Komi case. In addition, she would not shed light on the conversations she had with the president or other aides to the White House.

When she was presented with a large photo of her sitting at a table with the president on the day after Trump wrote a social publication of truth, calling for her to charge Komi, her only note was that she loved the picture.

“This should be a supervisory hearing when congressional members can get serious answers to serious questions,” said California Senator Adam Schiff after listing all the questions that Bondi declined to answer.

“I think you owe the President an excuse for your entire career,” Bondi replied.

Bondi seems to be determined to focus on what she said was the purpose of the Trump administration to reduce crime in the United States.

She quickly cites the statistics she said showed the success she had so far – the number of arrests in Washington, drug repression and illegal firearms confiscation in Chicago, border drugs.

“We are returning to our main mission to fight the real crime,” Bondi said.

The Democrats may have had other ideas, but Bondi – and the White House – probably think they are on the most secure political basis when they talk about combating crime.

The problem is that according to polls, many Americans are interested in the one who has the potential to please not only dying conservative guerrillas, but also independent and democratic voters.

A source of special heat for Bondi over the last few months has been to deal with the investigation of the Ministry of Justice of Epstein, who before his death had well -documented ties with many rich and powerful Americans.

For most of the hearing, the Democrats were those who touch Bondi with Epstein issues.

Senator Sheldon Whithaus wanted to find out if the FBI had discovered photos of Trump and “half -naked young women” and whether the Ministry of Justice had considered “Suspicious Activities Reports” on Epstein’s finances.

Bondi would not answer.

Dick Durbin asked the allegations that the Ministry of Justice had placed something in his Epstein documents related to Trump with the president.

“I’m not going to discuss anything with you, Senator,” Bondi replied.

The Prosecutor General was asked why her department is now saying that there is no list of Epstein’s customers after she argued earlier that she had this information on her desk.

Bondi replied, citing the previous finding of the department that there was no evidence of conspiracy or cover around the investigation.

Questions still revolve around Epstein’s investigation are a rare source of bilateral interest, with some Republicans joining the Democrats to call for more transparency. It took a while, but this hearing in the Senate finally gave some indication of it.

Republican senator John Kennedy of Louisiana told recent comments from the secretary of commerce Howard Luni that Epstein is “the most extorting ever.”

The Louisiana Senator offered a lunol who owns a home near Epstein in Palm Beach Florida, must testify to Congress and talk to the FBI.

Bondi continued his dance to Epstein, saying that from Lutak and FBI Director Kash Patel to decide if a meeting was needed.

If the Democrats were focused on what they thought about the unprecedented weapon of the Ministry of Justice at Trump, most of the Republican senators were more interested in fighting the battles of Biden’s presidency -or early.

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley spent much of the hearing, interfering with how the Democrats had, according to him, investigations from stone investigations into the business relations of the Biden family.

South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham has condemned the FBI investigation in Russia after the 2016 presidential election. Ted Cruz of Texas focused on protests outside the homes of conservative judges of the Supreme Court as a result of his decision to annul the abortion in 2021.

Eric Schmidt of Missouri filled a real bingo card with right complaints aimed at the Ministry of Justice.

Bondi, for his part, agreed with the Republican choir.

When the five-hour hearing finally ended, the event had the feeling of a guerrilla house of mirrors, with each country blaming the other in political weapons and guerrilla persecution.

“It is assumed that the Ministry of Justice is the guardian of the nation for justice and the rule of law,” said Senator Alex Alex Padila during his interrogation. “When public confidence breaks down, then justice itself is at risk.”

This is a kind of comment that Republicans and Democrats on the Committee could agree – before throwing the other party as a source of nation’s trouble.