"She expressed her fealty to Donald Trump, calling him "the most transparent president in American history" and saying that she'd "loved" seeing a photo of herself having dinner with the president. The almost-five-hour hearing was a portrait of an attorney general as the president's loyalist rather than as a constitutional officer with the appropriate respect for a coordinate branch of government."
"The problems began almost right away, when Ranking Member Dick Durbin of Illinois, a Democrat, asked Bondi whether the White House had consulted the Justice Department before deploying National Guard troops to American cities. "I am not going to discuss internal conversations with the White House," Bondi informed him. Then she declared, "I wish you loved Chicago as much as you hate the president.""
"She also told Senator Alex Padilla, a Democrat, that she wished he loved his home state of California "as much as you hate President Trump." She accused Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island of "trying to slander President Trump left and right." (Whitehouse had asked whether the FBI had discovered photographs of Trump with young women while searching Jeffrey Epstein's property.)"
Pam Bondi spent nearly five hours testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee while frequently talking over Democratic senators, launching personal attacks, and refusing to provide basic factual information. Bondi showed deference and smoothness with Republican members and repeatedly professed loyalty to President Donald Trump, calling him "the most transparent president in American history" and expressing pleasure at a photograph of them dining together. Bondi declined to discuss internal White House conversations and used repeated taunts such as telling Democrats she wished they loved their states "as much as you hate President Trump." The hearing portrayed Bondi as a presidential loyalist rather than a neutral, coordinate constitutional officer.
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