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# Attorney General Nominee Pam Bondi Pledges She Won't 'Politicize' the Justice Department

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## Video: Attorney General Nominee Pam Bondi Pledges She Won't 'Politicize' the Justice Department

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_Published 2025-01-15. The confirmation hearing for Donald Trump's pick to lead the Justice Department, Pam Bondi, a former Florida attorney general, corporate lobbyist and longtime fixture in Trump’s orbit was characterized by sharp questioning from Democratic senators concerned by her perceived loyalty to Trump._


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## Transcript

Most Americans believe that central to the peaceful transition of power in a democracy is the acceptance of the results of an election. To my knowledge, Donald Trump has never acknowledged the legal results of the 2020 election. Are you prepared to say today under oath without reservation that Donald Trump lost the presidential contest to Joe Biden in 2020? Ranking Member Durbin, President Biden is the president of the United States. He was duly sworn in, and he is the president of the United States. There was a peaceful transition of power. President Trump left office and was overwhelmingly elected in 2024.

You have any doubts that Joe Biden had the majority of electoral votes necessary to be elected president in 2020? You know, Senator, all I can tell you as a prosecutor is from my firsthand experience. And I accept the results. I accept, of course, that Joe Biden is president of the United States, but what I can tell you is what I saw firsthand when I went to Pennsylvania as an advocate for the campaign. I was an advocate for the campaign, and I was on the ground in Pennsylvania, and I saw many things there. But do I accept the results? Of course, I do. Do I agree with what happened and I saw so much you know, no one from either side of the aisle should want there to be any issues with election integrity in our country.

I think that question deserved a yes or no, and I think the length of your answer is an indication that you weren't prepared to answer yes. Do you believe that the January 6 rioters who've been convicted of violent assaults on police officers should be pardoned? Senator, if confirmed as Attorney General of the United States, the pardons, of course, fall under the president. But if asked to look at those cases, I will look at each case and advise on a case by case basis, just as I did my entire career as a prosecutor. It would not be appropriate for a prosecutor to start with a name and look for a crime.

It's a prosecutor's job to start with a crime and look for a name, correct? Senator, I think that is the whole problem with the weaponization that we have seen the last four years and what's been happening to Donald Trump. They targeted Donald Trump. They went after him. Actually, starting back in 2016, they targeted his campaign. They have launched countless investigations against him. That will not be the case if I am attorney general. I will not politicize that office. I will not target people simply because of their political affiliation. Justice will be administered even handedly throughout this country.

Senator, we've got to bring this country back together. We've got to move forward, or we're going to lose our country. Yeah, I think the concern is that weaponization of the Justice Department may well occur under your tenure, and we want to make sure that that's not the case. Can you clarify for me that in following ethics and the law, you'd be willing to resign if ordered to do something improper? Senator, I wouldn't work at a law firm. I wouldn't be a prosecutor. I wouldn't be attorney general. If anyone asked me to do something improper, and I felt I had to carry that out. Of course, I would not do that.

That's one of the main things you learn when you're a young prosecutor is to do the right thing. And I believe that has continued with me throughout my very long career.

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