| WASHINGTON — In her first appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee after the controversial indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, Attorney General Pam Bondi repeatedly evaded questions and refused to provide even basic information about the prosecution of Trump’s perceived enemies, the release of Epstein files, and more. The Not Above the Law coalition highlights five key topics she dodged, distorted, or flat-out refused to answer. Bondi’s performance was a spectacle marked by personal attacks on senators and combative exchanges where she deflected legitimate oversight questions. It confirmed what we already knew: Pam Bondi has shredded the Justice Department’s independence. She appears to be functioning as Trump’s personal fixer, which is one of the many reasons she is unfit to serve as Attorney General. Bondi’s stonewalling underscores the urgent need for continued congressional oversight to protect the integrity of our nation’s premier law enforcement agency and to preserve the basic freedoms of the American people. Here are five key topics Bondi outright refused to address: 1. Comey Indictment When Sen. Richard Blumenthal displayed a photo showing Bondi dining with Trump at the White House Rose Garden on September 24 – the night before Comey was indicted – Bondi refused to say whether she discussed the case with the president. This silence is especially troubling given that the indictment came just days after Trump publicly demanded she prosecute Comey. 2. Epstein Files Despite Bondi’s earlier public claim that an Epstein client list was sitting on her desk at the DOJ, she told Sen. Durbin that “there was no client list.” When Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse pressed her on whether the FBI has photos of Trump from Epstein’s safe and why the DOJ ordered FBI personnel to “flag” mentions of Trump in Epstein files, Bondi refused to answer, instead deflecting with personal attacks. 3. Tom Homan Corruption Scandal When Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse asked what happened to $50,000 that border czar Tom Homan allegedly accepted from undercover FBI agents before the Trump DOJ shut down the investigation, Bondi repeatedly refused to answer. Whitehouse pressed multiple times on what became of the money and whether the FBI recovered it, but Bondi claimed prosecutors found no credible evidence of wrongdoing and refused to say whether Homan kept the cash. 4. National Guard Deployments When Ranking Member Sen. Dick Durbin asked whether the White House consulted her before deploying National Guard troops to Chicago and other American cities and about the legal rationale for such deployments, Bondi refused to answer. When pressed on why she wanted to keep this “secret,” Bondi responded with personal attacks. 5. Military Strikes in International Waters When Sen. Chris Coons asked how the DOJ concluded that U.S. military strikes on ships in the open ocean are legal, Bondi refused to answer – despite serious questions about the legal authority for using deadly force against boats allegedly carrying drugs from Venezuela. |
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