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Bondi Confirmed As Attorney General In 'Turbulent Time' At DOJ

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Pam Bondi, President Trump’s nominee for attorney general was confirmed by the Senate on Tuesday, 54-46. Bondi, a staunch Trump loyalist, is poised to lead efforts to transform the Department of Justice, which the president said he intends to use to go after his political adversaries, reports Politico. As Bondi awaited confirmation, the Trump administration, under acting attorney general James McHenry, launched a broad effort to root out those deemed disloyal. Prosecutors involved in cases tied to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, and the investigation into Trump’s role in spurring the riots, have been terminated.


Bondi "will take the helm [at] what we all know is a turbulent time and also a Justice Department infected with political decision-making and its leaders refusing to acknowledge that reality,” said Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on the Senate floor ahead of the vote. Bondi, a former Florida attorney general, previously served as a lawyer for Trump during his first impeachment trial and assisted the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Pennsylvania. Democrats used her hearing to probe Bondi on her response to comments made by another Trump acolyte who could likely be her subordinate: FBI director nominee Kash Patel. In her confirmation hearing, Bondi declined to commit to enforcing the TikTok ban, offered a non-answer to whether former President Biden won the 2020 election and did not provide a clear answer on whether she would investigate Jack Smith, the special counsel charged with investigating Trump in the four years he was out of office. Trump has called for Smith to be prosecuted.

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