Immediately after the Senate hearing on Pam Bondi's nomination to be the next attorney general broke for lunch, two MSNBC legal analysts expressed disgust with statements and loaded questions offered by Republicans on national TV.
With Republicans ranging from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) to Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) attacking special counsel Jack Smith for investigating Donald Trump and accusing the Department of Justice of persecuting Catholics, both former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade and former federal prosecutor Paul Butler singled out the avalanche of lies that received little push back from Democrats on the committee.
"Barbara, I want to start with you. What do you make of what you've been hearing so far?" MSNBC host José Díaz-Balart prompted his guest.
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"Well, Jose, a huge part of this strategy by the Republican senators clearly, is to put the Department of Justice and FBI on trial," she replied. "We have heard the words weaponized, politicized again and again and again and Pam Bondi is agreeing with those things."
"The suggestion that because the Justice Department charged Donald Trump with interfering in the January 6th in the election of 2020 and with retaining false documents, that somehow that was all cooked up, baseless, weaponized, politicized," she added. "I think it is a disgusting display of disinformation."
"And even if they alone don't believe what they're saying, members of the public are watching this, and I worry how many will be believing what they are hearing today," she elaborated.
Asked about the Trump nominee's performance, Butler responded, "Bondi has more courtroom experience than other recent attorneys generals and so she's smooth and polished, and she's even found common ground with some of the democrats on issues like the opioid epidemic and pornography."
He then added, "But it's what she won't rule out that is concerning. She won't rule out discussing potential criminal prosecutions with Trump. She won't rule out prosecuting reporters. She won't disavow or clarify her earlier pledge to prosecute the prosecutors and investigate the investigators who were responsible for Trump's criminal cases."
"She actually thinks that [Trump nominee] Kash Patel is the right person to lead the FBI, so she's sounding like a yes woman to Donald Trump," he continued before adding, "So again, she's sounding like the attorney general of Trump's dreams –– she's his Roy Cohn. I like to remind people that Roy Cohn was disbarred."
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