‘Sorry’: Bondi shuts down Dem senator’s questioning on attack on another Trump candidate

US Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi clashed with a senior Democratic senator during her confirmation hearing to lead the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday.

Bondi was forced to defend President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the FBI, Kash Patel, when Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., pressed her on his earlier comments.

Among other things, he referred to Patel’s proposal to close FBI headquarters and threaten an “enemies list.”

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President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Attorney General Pam Bondi and Sen. Richard Blumenthal clashed during her confirmation hearing. (Getty Images)

“Is that a person who should appropriately be FBI director? Aren’t those comments inappropriate? Shouldn’t you reject them and ask him to retract them?” Blumenthal hammered.

Bondi responded: “Senator, I am not aware of all these comments. I have not discussed these comments with Mr. Patel.”

“What I do know is Mr. Patel …” she began before Blumenthal tried to cut her off.

Bondi pressed forward: “Excuse me. What I do know is that Mr. Patel was a career prosecutor. He was a career public defender who defended people. And he also has a lot of experience in the intelligence community.”

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“What I can sit here and tell you is, Mr. Patel, if he’s working to run the FBI, if he’s confirmed, and if I’m confirmed, he’s going to follow the law. If I’m the attorney general. of America , and I don’t think he would do anything else,” Bondi said.

Blumenthal responded, “Well, let me just submit that the response that I had hoped to hear from you is that these comments are inappropriate and that you will ask him to deny or retract them when he comes for this committee because they are truly a deterrent to fair enforcement and the rule of law.”

It comes after Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., similarly pressed Bondi on what Democrats have called Patel’s “enemies list.”

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They refer to a list of 60 people in Patel’s book “Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy,” which he labeled as part of “the deep state.”

Bondi also defended Patel during Whitehouse’s questioning while promising there would never be an “enemies list” at the DOJ.