A subdued U.S. Senate confirmation hearing for attorney general nominee Pam Bondi briefly became heated when the former prosecutor lashed out at top Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) for lobbying a “gotcha” question meant to throw her off her game.
Durbin, the Senate Minority Whip and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, attempted to back Bondi into a corner by asking about the 2020 election and President-elect Donald Trump’s appeal to Georgia officials to “find” enough additional votes to sway the outcome in his favor.
For years, Democrats have wielded the statement made by Trump during a private call with Ben Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, as evidence that he was attempting to interfere with the election, and Durbin was clearly aiming to see if Bondi would agree with his contention.
Staring over his eyeglasses and down his nose at the former Florida attorney general, Sen. Durbin began to lay out the facts of the infamous call before Bondi called him out. “He said to the GA Secretary of State, ‘find 11,780 votes,’” Durbin started as Bondi sat patiently.
“Do you have the entire context of that call?” she asked. “I feel like it was longer, much longer