Posted on 01/15/2025 11:51:42 AM PST by Red Badger
Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi completely dismantled Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) after his thinly veiled insinuation that she would “weaponize the Department of Justice.”
As TGP’s Jordan Conradson reported, Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is facing questions from Senators this morning during a confirmation hearing for the U.S. Attorney General.
Bondi, the former Florida Attorney General, was nominated after Rep. Matt Gaetz withdrew his name as Trump’s pick for AG.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Trump Department of Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth’s first confirmation hearing was held yesterday, and he passed the test with flying colors. Now, Bondi is shining as well.
After thoroughly humiliating Dick Durbin when he tried to embarrass her with a question regarding the 2020 election, Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) then stepped in it when he tried to imply she would weaponize the Department of Justice on behalf of President Trump. Of course, Biden’s DOJ is the one that has not made the weaponization of government against MAGA nation a prime priority.
Trump, on the other hand, has vowed to ensure equal justice for all Americans.
Knowing this, Bondi masterfully turned the tables on Whitehouse. She pointed out how Trump was victimized for the past four years, including targeting his presidential campaigns.
Moreover, they launched numerous bogus investigations against Trump and sought to throw him in prison for bogus crimes just for having the audacity to run in 2024.
WATCH:
VIDEO AT LINK.................
SHELDON WHITEHOUSE: And it would not be appropriate for a prosecutor to start with a name and look for a crime. It’s a prosecutor’s job to start with a crime and look for a name. Correct?
BONDI: 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. 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. I will not target people simply because of their political affiliation. Justice will be administered evenhandedly throughout this country.
It’s safe to say this was not a fair fight.
And then she wouldn’t get confirmed. The margin is very thin.
You give the kind of answer she gave, then when you get into office, you do what you actually want to.
Which is more important - satisfying your need to tell people off but not winning and not being able to anything else but let off hot air? Or winning and then *punishing* your enemies?
LMAO!!!!!!
These hearings are most enjoyable. These nominees are fighters. Hope it pervades throughout the land.
Some of the posts here seem to be suggesting that Bondi ought to lay out the whole plan for responding to lawfare in Bondi’s confirmation hearing.
That would be crazy in my opinion.
The response to lawfare is quiet investigation, behind-the-scenes report building. Don’t start the fight, if there needs to be one, until Bondi has the weapons in her hand.
This isn’t the time or place for making a point. There is a point to be made, but Bondi can make it better, much better, at a another time-— assuming she is confirmed.
I agree totally. You said pretty much what I was going to. She gave the right answer. When she gets approved and sworn in, LOOK OUT🙂👍
Little bitty Rhode Island should have its status as a state rescinded. It should be combined with several of the other little bitty states and they can collectively be a state.
We would get rid of at least 4 Democrat Senators if we did this.
Little bitty Rhode Island has far too much power. More than they deserve.
I agree with you. There have been several missed opportunities to smack Dems in the face with their own conduct.
If the election WERE NOT stolen they wouldn’t be such RABID DOGS about forcing people to admit it wasn’t stolen they are as guilty as hell and by behaving this way they are proving we are right about the fraud!!
Just shows why we should not allow men to be in office.
Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts could combine.
So could Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.
Delaware and Maryland would fit together nicely.
Would Pennsylvania want New Jersey?
That would remove what, about 10 Democratic Senators?
Disagree. Her response was measured and designed to ensure confirmation. Pete Hegseth was also quite tactful and restrained in his responses. There are a ton of things I would have liked him to say, but that would’ve jeopardized his chances.
Exactly! I like the way you think!
I’m watching the Schiff interaction:
Schiff: “Let me ask you a question...”
Bondi: (starts to answer)
Schiff: (interrupts) “Let me ask you another question...”
Bondi: (starts to answer)
Schiff: (interrupts) “Let me ask you another question...”
Bondi: (starts to answer)
Schiff: (interrupts) “Let me ask you another question...”
Bondi: (starts to answer)
Schiff: (interrupts) “Let me ask you another question...”
Bondi: (starts to answer)
Schiff: (interrupts) “Let me ask you another question...”
Bondi: (starts to answer)
Schiff: (interrupts) “Let me ask you another question...”
Bondi: (starts to answer)
Schiff: (interrupts) “Let me ask you another question...”
Bondi: (starts to answer)
Schiff: (interrupts) “Let me ask you another question...”
Bondi: (starts to answer)
Schiff: (interrupts) “Let me ask you another question...”
...and so on...
It’s beautiful. It’s a perfect response. And the foolish Democrat Senator set her up for the response perfectly.
Nope. It would have gone like this:
Schiff: “Let me ask you a question...”
Bondi: ““How dare you, Senator. For the past eight years we’ve had to endure a politic...”
Schiff: (interrupts) “Let me ask you another question...”
She should have asked which party members are lining up for pardons.
Maine, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont should all be exchanged for Alberta.
The New York Times led off today with nonsense about the AG being “independent” of the President.
This has really gone on long enough.
The Senate in 1961, MUCH more independent of party politics and with some very powerful silverbacks who had sat there a long, long time confirmed the President-elect’s damn BROTHER as AG, with no speeches about an “independent DOJ” and “resisting the President”.
Article II opens with a very simple, short sentence: “The executive Power SHALL BE VESTED in a President of the United States of America”. (That dot at the end of the sentence can be voiced as PERIOD).
This ridiculous view that the DOJ in general, and the AG in particular, is independent of the executive power is, just that, ridiculous. It was a useful tool in removing a President who had received 520 electoral votes and 61% of the popular vote 18 months earlier, and it WAS cheaper, in many ways, than blowing his brains out on a street in Dallas - but it was a lie then, and it’s a lie now.
The President is in charge of the DOJ, and the AG is his subordinate. The issue of a Senate which confirms a person having a role in how the office is executed was settled in 1867. The Tenure of Office act was unconstitutional.
This does not make the President a dictator. The President can be removed by a simple majority in the House and with the concurrence of 2/3 of the Senate at any time, for any reason. And, the President cannot serve more than two four year terms in his office.
But, other than that, the President is the AG’s boss and the AG is obliged to obey the President or resign.
Let’s get with Pam Bondi a bit more. Over at https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/ There’s some good articles concerning Pam.
Some of their headlines reads:
Pam Bondi Makes Hawaii Democrat Senator Mazie Hirono Regret Not Meeting With Her as She Embarrasses Hirono for Several Minutes (VIDEO)
AWESOME: Pam Bondi Turns the Tables on Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse With a Masterful Response When He Snidely Suggests She Will Weaponize the DOJ (VIDEO)
Pam Bondi Makes Hawaii Democrat Senator Mazie Hirono Regret Not Meeting With Her as She Embarrasses Hirono for Several Minutes (VIDEO)
WATCH: Pam Bondi Humiliates Democrat Senator Dick Durbin When She Refuses to Fall for His Gotcha Question on the 2020 Presidential Election
Pam Bondi Wrecks California’s Toxic Democrat Senator Alex Padilla Over His Disgusting Treatment of Her (VIDEO)
OUCH: Pam Bondi Blows Up Loathsome Senator Adam Schiff with a Pair of Devastating Responses When He Brings Up J6 and Liz Cheney (VIDEO)
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