Washington – The Senate confirmed Pam Bondi as an American prosecutor General on Tuesday evening, putting a long -standing ally of Donald Trump at the head of a Ministry of Justice which has already been shaken by the dismissals of career employees considered as unfair to the Republican President.
The vote fell almost entirely according to the party, with only senator John Fetterman, a Pennsylvania democrat, joining all the Republicans to adopt his confirmation 54-46.
Bondi, a former prosecutor general of Florida and business lobbyist, should supervise a radical reshaping of the department which was the target of Trump’s anger on the criminal affairs which she brought against him. She enters the FBI, which she will supervise, in the examination of the agents involved in surveys linked to the president, who clearly explained her desire to take revenge on her perceived opponents.
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The Republicans congratulated Bondi as a highly qualified leader, according to which they will make essential changes to a department that they unjustly believed to be prosecuted Trump through surveys resulting in two indictment acts.
“Pam Bondi has promised to bring the department back to its main mission: to continue crime and protect the Americans against threats against their security and their freedoms,” said the head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune (Rs.d.) .
But Bondi faced a meticulous examination of his close relations with the president, who, during his mandate, dismissed a director of the FBI who refused to initiate his loyalty to him and forced a general prosecutor who challenged himself ‘Investigation of the Ministry of Justice on the potential links between Russia and its 2016 presidential campaign.
While Bondi sought to reassure the Democrats that politics would play no role in its decision -making, it also refused during its confirmation hearing last month to govern potential surveys on Trump’s opponents. And she repeated Trump’s claims that the prosecution against him constituted a political persecution, saying that the Ministry of Justice “had been armed for years and years and years, and that must stop.”
Senator Peter Welch (D-VT.), Hanked up Bondi as “accomplished and competent”, but said that his “serious concern really concerned President Trump and what he clearly demands”.
“It is clearly an oath of loyalty to him as opposed to a request for frank and frank advice, including if the president asks for something to do as the pursuit of a political opponent,” said Welch.
Bondi’s confirmation vote intervened just a few hours after FBI agents continued the Ministry of Justice to develop a list of employees involved in the January 6 prosecution, which, according to agents, could be a precursor mass layoffs.
Last week, the acting assistant general prosecutor ordered the FBI acting director to provide the names, titles and offices of all FBI employees who worked on the cases of January 6 – that Trump described as a “Serious national injustice”. Bove, who defended Trump in his criminal affairs before joining the administration, said that officials of the Ministry of Justice would carry out an “examination process to determine whether additional staff actions are necessary”.
Officials from the Ministry of Justice also recently forced senior executives from the FBI, dismissed prosecutors of the special lawyer Jack Smith who investigated Trump and ended a group of prosecutors from the office of the office ‘DCUS lawyer who were hired to help the massive investigation on January 6.
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Bondi has repeatedly stressed his hear that she would not pursue anyone for political reasons, and have sworn that the public, not the president, would be his client. But his answers sometimes echoed the rhetoric of Trump’s campaign on a politicized justice system.
“They targeted Donald Trump,” Bondi said to the legislators. “They pursued it – starting in reality in 2016, they targeted its campaign. They launched countless investigations against him. “She added:” If I am a attorney general, I will not politicize this office. “
Trump appointed Bondi for the Attorney General after it became clear that his initial choice, the former representative Matt Gaetz, could not win enough support from the Republican senators to confirm.
Bondi has been a must for Trump’s orbit for years and a regular defender of the president elected on information programs in the midst of his legal problems. During an appearance in 2023 Fox News, she suggested that the “bad” prosecutors of the Ministry of Justice would be investigated under the Trump administration.
“Investigators will be investigated,” she said.
Smith said politics did not play any role in his decisions and the evidence that his team has gathered was sufficient for Trump to have been sentenced to the trial to compress the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Smith abandoned this affair and a separate Trump who accused the use of illegal holes of classified documents in his field Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, after the Trump elections in November, citing the policy of long time of the Ministry of Justice prohibiting criminal affairs against an in -office president.
