Pam Bondi Goes for the Jugular by Reviving Democrat’s Military Service Scandal During Fiery Hearing
Attorney General Pam Bondi hit back at Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) as he grilled her Over ex-FBI director James Comey’s indictment with an attack that dredged up his old military service scandal.
The attack line, repeated previously by President Donald Trump over the past decade, developed after the senator admitted to misrepresenting his military service, after years of suggesting he had served in Vietnam when, in fact, he had not.
A 2010 New York Times investigation revealed Blumenthal had received at least five deferments from 1965 to 1970 before he joined the Reserves, where his duties included drills and local community projects. The report found he had “sometimes falsely claimed” to be a Vietnam veteran, an impression that had become part of his public image.
Blumenthal later apologized, saying he regretted claiming he’d served “in” Vietnam rather than “during” it.
During a Senate Judiciary hearing on Tuesday, Blumenthal confronted Bondi in his questioning ABOUT a “pretty intimate” image of the Trump Cabinet having dinner together the night before Comey’s indictment was made public.
The senator pressed Bondi on whether “Comey was discussed at that dinner” – getting at lingering questions over whether the former FBI director had been indicted under pressure from Trump.
Clearly angered, Bondi replied by speaking over Blumenthal: “There were a lot of people there that night. That’s a great picture. I love that picture. That’s a great picture. And there were a lot of people there that night. I think the entire Cabinet was there.”
“I am not going to discuss any conversations I’ve had or not have with the president of the United States,” she said.
Expressing sympathy with Republican ambitions to fight the “weaponization of the Department of Justice” and arguing he had proposed legislation to that end, Blumenthal asked her to “join” him in supporting “reform.”
Rounding on Blumenthal, however, Bondi challenged his record: “Senator Blumenthal, I find it so interesting that you didn’t bring any of this up during President [Joe] Biden’s administration, when he was doing everything to protect Hunter Biden, his son. And I think you just saw what [CIA] Director Ratcliffe just released.”
As the senator tried to interject, the attorney general said: “I’m not going to yell over you. I’m not going to get in the gutter with you. But information that the Biden administration told them not to investigate – Hunter Biden’s involvement with Ukraine.”
“I’m not going to be lectured to you about integrity by someone who lied about being in the military just to be elected as senator,” she added, leaving Blumenthal in stunned silence for several seconds.
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