Attorney General Pamela Bondi repeatedly declined to answer questions from Democratic senators during a Senate oversight hearing Tuesday on some of the largest controversies involving the Justice Department.
The close ally of President Donald Trump often took a combative attitude with Democratic senators when pressed on those topics, including the firing of career Justice Department officials, the indictment of former FBI Director James B. Comey, the legal authority for strikes targeting boats in the open ocean and a past allegation that the administration’s border czar reportedly took $50,000 in cash during an FBI sting last year.
Many times throughout the hourslong Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Bondi simply declined to answer questions, sought to change the subject and leaned into unrelated personal jabs at the senators.
