Pam Bondi Rips Adam Schiff as a ‘Failed Lawyer’ After He Lists All the Questions She Refused to Answer
Attorney General Pam Bondi and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) sparred during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday after Schiff listed off all the questions Bondi had dodged so far during the hearing.
At one point during the exchange, Bondi attacked Schiff while dodging his questions: “Will you apologize to Donald Trump for trying to impeach him after you now know that Joe Biden tried to cover up Hunter Biden’s involvement with Ukraine?”
Schiff replied, “Excuse me, let me do this because I think it’s valuable that the American people get a sense of what you’ve refused to answer today.” He went on to list the various questions Bondi refused to answer:
So these are just some of the questions you refused to answer, or have answered with personal attacks on members of this committee. You were asked whether you consulted with career ethics lawyers, as you promised you would do during your nomination hearing, when you approved the president receiving a $400 million gift from the Qataris. You refused to answer that question.
You were asked who or what role you may have played, or who played the role, in asking that Trump’s name be flagged in any of the Epstein documents gathered by the FBI. You refused to answer that question. You were asked whether Holman kept the $50,000 bribe money. You refused to answer that question.
You were asked whether Holman paid taxes on the $50,000 bribe money. You refused to answer that. You were asked whether career prosecutors found insufficient evidence to charge James Comey. You refused to answer that question. You were asked how our military strikes on these boats in the Caribbean are legal, and you refused to even answer that question. You were—
Bondi hit back, “Do you have a law degree, Senator Schiff?”
Schiff continued with his list, “Excuse me, excuse me. You were asked, did you discuss indicting James Comey with the president? You refused to answer that question. You were asked, did you approve the firing of antitrust lawyers who disagreed with the Hewlett-Packard merger? You refused to answer that question.” He added:
You were asked whether you support a restitution fund for violent insurrectionists who attacked the Capitol on January 6th. You refused to answer that question. You were asked whether you were firing career professionals, career prosecutors, just because they worked on January 6th investigations. You refused to answer that question.
You were asked by my California colleague whether you believe government officials like immigration officials have to abide by court orders. You wouldn’t even answer that question. This is supposed to be an oversight hearing.
“Oversight?” Bondi replied, “Excuse me.”
Read the rest of their exchange below:
Schiff: You can attack me—
Bondi: You have attacked us, including President Trump, for your entire career.
Schiff: You can attack me later, and I know you’ve got plenty of canned attacks. We’ve heard them all day today.
Bondi: Canned attacks on you?
Schiff: This is supposed to be—
Bondi: No one needs a canned attack on you.
Schiff: Excuse me, regular order, Madam Chair. I’m trying to speak. This is supposed to be an oversight hearing of the Justice Department, and it comes in the wake of an indictment called for by the President of one of his enemies. This is supposedly an oversight hearing, and it comes in the wake of revelations that a top administration official took $50,000 in a bag, and this department made that investigation go away. This is supposed to be an oversight hearing when dozens of prosecutors have been fired simply because they worked on cases investigating the former president.
Bondi: What about the fires in California? Do you care about that, Senator Schiff?
Schiff: This is supposed to be an oversight hearing in which members of Congress can get serious answers to serious questions about the cover-up of corruption, about the prosecution of the president’s enemies. When will it be that the members of this committee on a bipartisan basis demand answers to those questions and refuse to accept personal—
Bondi: A failed lawyer because you don’t understand when someone can and cannot answer a question.
Schiff: [Attacks] as an answer to those questions.
Bondi: Personal slander. Will you apologize to Donald Trump for slandering him? Personal slander.
Watch the clip above via C-SPAN.
