The Senate has confirmed Pam Bondi as U.S. attorney general, putting Trump’s longtime ally at the helm of a Justice Department that has
already been rattled by the firings of career employees seen as
disloyal to the Republican president.
The vote fell almost entirely along party lines, with only Sen. John Fetterman, a Pennsylvania Democrat, joining with all Republicans to
pass her confirmation 54-46.
Bondi, a former Florida attorney general and corporate lobbyist, is
expected to oversee a radical reshaping of the department that has
been the target of Trump’s ire over the criminal cases it brought
against him.
“Pam Bondi has promised to get the department back to its core
mission: prosecuting crime and protecting Americans from threats to
their safety and their freedoms,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune
said.
"Back to" its core mission of prosecuting crime? Prosecuting crime — Trump's crimes — is exactly what it has been doing.
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