A former federal prosecutor highlighted some of what he said were unusual tactics Attorney General Pam Bondi employed against Democratic senators in a combative hearing.
President Donald Trump's attorney general appeared Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where she appeared to be reading from a sheet of opposition research to attack Democrats on personal and political levels. Politico's Ankush Khardori said she had stepped up her combative stance.
"I'm not surprised, she has been doing this all year," Khardori, a former Justice Department prosecutor, told CNN. "She did this in the oversight hearings on the DOJ's budget. All of this actually, this is worse. She's more aggressive, I think, because the DOJ is under more public pressure.
"She's just putting up more of a show, but it was the same stuff. Like, she will respond to criticism from Democratic members with vitriol and non-sequiturs, right. So say, well, why don't you care about this crime that happened on this date? And she pulls from these notes and stuff that she has in her little book.
"At the same time, she goes around accusing other people of reading from scripts. A little ridiculous."
"This is worse than I've seen," Khardori added. "I'm not surprised that the core elements are still there, an intensely partisan attorney general, someone whose objective seems to be first and foremost to serve the interests of President Trump and the Republican Party, and to really, really see herself as serving one man who she effusively praises at every available turn, the president and the interests of the Republican Party. I mean, this is an extraordinary shift and change in just eight months in the public profile and posture of the nation's top law enforcement official."
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