Washington– Prosecutor Bam Bondi repeatedly responded to questions while she was seeking during a combat hearing in Congress on Tuesday to defend herself against increasing criticism as turning the law enforcement agency into a weapon for revenge against political opponents of President Donald Trump.
Democrats sought to take advantage of the hearing, which came in the wake of the indictment against former FBI director James Komei, to warn of what they consider politicization of the ministry, which has long been proud of its stay independent of the White House.
Bondi ignored the questions that seemed to contempt for her troubled term, and categorically rejected the answer again and repeatedly while the Democrats were pressuring her regarding politically charged investigations, dismissing prosecutors, and other matters. Its refusal to participate in the questions means providing few new ideas, if any, about its actions and decisions, with the choice of Bondi instead of the response to the attacks of the Democrats by chanting the claims of conservatives that the Ministry of Justice during the era of President Joe Biden – which raised two criminal cases against Trump – was used as a weapon.
“They were playing politics with law enforcement authorities and they will consider a historical betrayal of the public’s confidence,” Bondi said of the Ministry of Justice in Biden. “This is the type of behavior that the American people trust in our law enforcement system. We will work to recover it every day.”
The hearing was divided early on a deep partisan basis, as the Republicans have repeatedly jumped to defend them to highlight the criminal cases against the president, which they say shows that the institution that it inherited was very politicized. They pointed to the disclosure of the previous day that the FBI analyzed the phone records of many Republican legislators as part of the investigation of Trump’s efforts to cancel his loss in the 2020 elections to Biden Democrat.
“This is a heinous matter, an unconstitutional violation and must be treated immediately by you and the manager Pateel,” Senator Chuck Grassley, the Republican President of the Committee, told Bondi, referring to the FBI director Cash Battle.
Meanwhile, Democrats accused Bondi of destroying the Ministry’s credibility and undermining its long -term independence from the White House, while the Republican publicly calls for the trial of his political opponents.
“What happened since January 20, 2025 will make even President Nixon retreat,” said Senator Dick Dorbin of Illinois, the committee’s largest democracy, of the president who resigned to avoid his isolation with regard to the Watergate scandal. “This is your heritage, Prosecutor Bondi. In eight short months, I have diverted a fundamental transfer in the Ministry of Justice and left a tremendous stigma in American history. It will take decades to recover.”
Democrats are pressing Bondi regarding their pledge not to practice politics
The hearing was the first for Bondi before the committee since its appointment session in January, when it pledged not to exercise politics with the Ministry of Justice, the promise that the Democrats exploited when they pressed the public prosecutor on whether she was able to bear political pressure from the White House.
American Senator Amy Kloposhr, a democracy of Minnesota, reminded her of this commitment and asked her whether she believed that she had supported him. Bondi replied that she thought she did so completely.
“I have also pledged that I would also end the use of the Ministry of Justice as a weapon, and that America will again have a single -level justice system for all,” said Bondi. “This is what we do.”
Bondi determined the session at the beginning, as Durbin repeatedly attacked loudly and disbursed questions from him by referring to the rate of murders in Chicago and asserting that legislators from his party were responsible for closing the government.
“You are sitting here, they are interrogating me, and they are on their way to Chicago to keep your state safe,” Bondi said, referring to Patel and Deputy Public Prosecutor Todd Blanche.
Durbin replied: “My Public Prosecutor’s lady, it is my job to interrogate you.”
Bondi refuses to answer questions related to Komei and other things
It has repeatedly refused to discuss matters, including an investigation into bribery with Tamar’s border, Tom Human, who was closed under the Trump administration. This angered Senator Shieldon Whitheus, a democratic of Rudd Island, who accused Bondi of responding to the “extreme right -wing conversation points on the Internet”.
She also refused to reveal whether she spoke with the president about the case against Kumi, who was accused last month of lying to the Senate Judicial Committee when he said that he had not authorized anyone else at the FBI to be an unknown source in news reports on a specific investigation. The indictment came a few days after Trump appeared as he publicly appeared on social media to take this measure against him and against other imagined enemies of politicians.
Komi is scheduled to appear before the court for the first time on Wednesday in the case, which was filed despite the prosecutors’ reservations about the strength of the evidence, after the Trump administration was quick to appoint a new public prosecutor to secure the accusations after the resignation of the experienced leader of this office a few days ago under pressure.
During the Bondi era, the Ministry of Justice opened criminal investigations with other explicit critics of the president, including the American Democratic Senator Adam Chef, who was a member of the Judicial Committee, as well as the New York Prosecutor Leitia James and Andrew Como, former New York Governor and current candidate for the position of New York mayor. They all denied any violations, as Kumi did, and criticized investigations as political motives.
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