Conservatives on social media celebrated President-elect Trump’s legal professional basic nominee Pam Bondi’s response to a query from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., throughout her affirmation listening to on Wednesday.
“It would not be appropriate for a prosecutor to start with a name and look for a crime?” Whitehouse mentioned throughout his line of questioning. “It’s a prosecutor’s job to start with a crime and look for a name. Correct?”
Bondi responded by highlighting the federal authorities’s investigations into Trump.
“Senator, I think that is the whole problem with the weaponization that we have seen the last four years and what’s been happening to Donald Trump,” Bondi mentioned.
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Dem. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and former Florida AG Pam Bondi at her affirmation listening to. (Getty Photos)
“They targeted Donald Trump. They went after him, actually starting back in 2016. They targeted his campaign. They have launched countless investigations against him. That will not be the case. If I am attorney general, I will not politicize that office,” Bondi mentioned. “I will not target people simply because of their political affiliation. Justice will be administered evenhandedly throughout this country. Senator, we’ve got to bring this country back together. We’ve got to move forward, or we’re going to lose our country.”
Conservatives on social media shortly took discover of the trade.
“Pam Bondi totally flips the script on Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D) who tried to make it seem like she will weaponize the DOJ,” Florida’s Voice Information assistant information director Eric Daughtery posted on X. “Masterclass.”
“Pam Bondi is making Sheldon Whitehouse look stupid,” Trump ’24 deputy speedy response director Greg Value posted on X.
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“Senator Whitehouse unironically explaining that prosecutors should have a crime and then look for a suspect, not the other way around,” Fox Information contributor Katie Pavlich posted on X.
“Bondi responds by explaining DOJ did the opposite to Trump for years.”
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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse leaves the Senate Democrats’ lunch within the Capitol on June 13, 2023. (Invoice Clark/CQ-Roll Name, Inc by way of Getty Photos)
Fox Information Digital reached out to Whitehouse’s workplace however didn’t instantly obtain a response.
Bondi is anticipated to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate and a few have speculated that she’s going to earn some votes from Democrats.
