Pam Bondi declined to say whether or not she would examine particular counsel Jack Smith, at the same time as she criticized his investigation into President-elect Trump as “horrible.”
“I haven’t seen the file. I haven’t seen the investigation. It would be irresponsible for me to make a commitment,” she stated throughout her affirmation listening to in entrance of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
However as she confronted pushback from questioner Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), she criticized Smith’s investigation.
“Senator, what I have seen on the news is horrible.”
Whereas Bondi has dismissed prior questions on potential prosecutions as hypotheticals, Schiff stated this case was “one very specific, non hypothetical.”
“The President has said Jack Smith should go to jail,” Schiff stated.
Bondi has beforehand been crucial of investigations into Trump.
“The Department of Justice, the prosecutors will be prosecuted — the bad ones,” Bondi stated in a 2023 Fox Information look. “The investigators will be investigated.”
Bondi’s feedback come sooner or later after Smith launched the quantity of his ultimate report coping with Trump’s efforts to dam the peaceable switch of energy. In that quantity, Smith defended his work, saying the fees towards Trump had been warranted and never political, calling such accusations “laughable.”
