Attorney General Pam Bondi lashed out at Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) for asking a question about failures to disclose foreign lobbying for Qatar.
"The three hallmarks of this administration are incompetence, corruption, and cruelty," Dean said during a House Appropriations Committee hearing on Monday. "Attorney General, have you ever been registered as an agent of a foreign principal under the Foreign Agents Registration Act?"
"I assume you're talking about when I represented the country of Qatar for a very short time," Bondi replied.
"Hold on," Dean said.
"You can't put words in my mouth!" Bondi exclaimed. "You want to talk about incompetence? You're the one that said Joe Biden on PBS was competent. You had to retract those words."
"Don't talk to me," she added. "Don't insult me publicly."
"This is so discourteous," Dean gasped. "This is so outside the committee's guidelines. Taking a personal shot at me while swiping at Biden? Very strange and very unprofessional of you."
"And the answer is yes," the Democratic lawmaker continued. "You were registered as a lobbyist for Qatar... President Trump recently announced he'd accept that $400 million Qatari airplane because it was just prettier than the one he was flying around in."
Bondi fired back: "And talking about unprofessional, you say the President wanted to jet because it's pretty?"
"Excuse me," Dean interrupted. "This is a congressional hearing. He said it himself."
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