Washington – Senate confirmed Palm Bondi as the US Attorney General on Tuesday evening, put a long associate of Donald Trump on top of a justice department, who already seen as a Career Employees of Career Employees, who was already seen as Republican President Is surprised by firing.
The vote fell almost completely with party lines, only Sen John Fetterman, with a Pennsylvania Democrat, all connected with Republican to pass their confirmation 54-46.
Bondi, a former Attorney General and corporate lobist from Florida, is expected to oversee a radical revival of the department, aiming for criminal cases brought against him on criminal cases of Trump. She enters with the FBI, which she will see in the upheaval on the investigation of the agents involved in the investigation related to the President, which has clarified her desire to avenge her alleged opponents.
Republican has praised Bondi as a highly qualified leader, who will contest the election that they will bring very important changes in a department, which believes that Trump has been misunderstood through investigation as a result of two prosecution. .
“Palm Bondi has promised to bring the department back to its main mission: prosecution of crime and protecting Americans from their safety and dangers for their freedom,” said John Thyun, leader of the Senate majority, John Thyun.
But Bondi has faced a thorough investigation on his close relationship with the President, who fired an FBI director during his tenure, who refused to vow to loyalty to him and forced an Attorney General, who, who, and In the possible relations between them, he resumed itself from the investigation of the Department of Justice. 2016 Presidential Campaign.
While Bondi has demanded the Democrats to be assured that politics will not play any role in taking his decisions, he also refused to hear his confirmation last month to rule the possible investigation among the opponents of Trump. And he has reiterated Trump’s claims that the case against him is for political harassment, saying that the justice department had “weapons for years and years, and it is to stop.”
Sen Peter Welch, D-VT., Praised Bondi as “skillful and competent”, but said that his “serious concern is actually about President Trump and he is clearly demanding.”
Welch said, “This is clearly an oath of loyalty, contrary to the demand for direct, clear advice, in which the President is asking to do something like prosecution of a political opponent,” Welch said.
The FBI agents confirmed Bondi’s vote a few hours after sueing the Department of Justice on the efforts to develop the list of employees included on 6 January, which could be a precursor to the fear of the agents.
Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bowe ordered the acting FBI Director last week to provide the names, titles and offices of all FBI employees who worked in cases of 6 January – which Trump as a “serious national injustice” Has described. Bov, who defended Trump in his criminal cases before joining the administration, stated that the officials of the Department of Justice “would” perform the review process to determine whether any additional personnel action is necessary. ”
Officials of the Department of Justice have recently forced senior FBI officials, expelled on the team of Special Counsel Jack Smith, who investigated Trump and ended a group of prosecutors in DCUS Attorney’s office, which Large -scale was hired to help in the January 6 investigation.
Bandy repeatedly emphasized the hearing of his confirmation that she would not carry forward anyone for political reasons, and swear that the people would be a customer, not the President. But his answers echoed Trump’s campaign many times about a political justice system.
“He targeted Donald Trump,” Bandy told MPs. “They followed him – actually starting in 2016, he targeted his campaign. He launched a countless investigation against him.” He said, “If I am an Attorney General, I will not politicize that office. . ”
Trump nominated Bondi for the Attorney General, it became clear that his early picks, former rape mats, could not win enough support from Republican Senators, which could be confirmed.
Bandy has been a stability in Trump’s class over the years, and a regular protector of the presidential election on news programs amid his legal crises. In the presence of 2023 Fox News, he suggested that the prosecutors of the Department of Justice would be investigated under the Trump administration.
“Investigators will be investigated,” he said.
Smith has said that politics has not played any role in his decisions and the evidence collected by his team was sufficient for Trump, who were convicted in a trial for the plan of 2020 presidential election Was held.
Smith left the case and a separate charging trump with illegal hoarding classes, in the Palm Beach of Florida in his Mar-e-Lago Estate, after Trump’s election victory, in November, a sitting president’s sitting in November After a Florida’s election victory, after a ban on criminal cases on criminal cases against criminal cases.