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AG Pick Bondi Is Pressed on Independence
The Wall Street Journal|January 16, 2025
Donald Trump soured on his first two attorneys general when they wouldn't give in to some of his most extreme demands. If Pam Bondi becomes his third, would she be able to say 'no?'
- SADIE GURMAN AND C. RYAN BARBER
AG Pick Bondi Is Pressed on Independence

She didn't exactly say.

During her confirmation hearing Wednesday, Bondi sought at once to portray herself as an independent law enforcer and Trump's ardent defender, saying "politics will not play a part" in her decisions while echoing the president-elect's complaint that he was wrongly targeted by years of federal investigations.

"That partisanship, the weaponization will be gone," Bondi said in opening her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Bondi, a 59-year-old former Florida attorney general, seemed calm and confident in the face of intense questioning by Democratic senators. She worked to cast herself as a freethinking, tough-on-crime prosecutor while also affirming her loyalty to Trump and support for many of his most controversial views.

She encountered skepticism throughout the hearing from Democrats worried she will help Trump wield the Justice Department as a weapon to go after his perceived enemies, as he has threatened to do.

This story is from the January 16, 2025 edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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