Pam Bondi declined to say whether she would investigate special counsel Jack Smith, even 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 said during her confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
But as she faced pushback from questioner Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), she criticized Smith’s investigation.
“Senator, what I have seen on the news is horrible.”
While Bondi has dismissed prior questions about potential prosecutions as hypotheticals, Schiff said this case was “one very specific, non hypothetical.”
“The President has said Jack Smith should go to jail,” Schiff said.
Bondi has previously been critical of investigations into Trump.
“The Department of Justice, the prosecutors will be prosecuted — the bad ones,” Bondi said in a 2023 Fox News appearance. “The investigators will be investigated.”
Bondi’s comments come one day after Smith released the volume of his final report dealing with Trump’s efforts to block the peaceful transfer of power. In that volume, Smith defended his work, saying the charges against Trump were warranted and not political, calling such accusations “laughable.”
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