‘Donald Trump’s Vendetta Factory’: Top Dem Torches Pam Bondi for Using DOJ to Settle Scores

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, told CNN’s Boris Sanchez Thursday that former Attorney General Pam Bondi’s tenure was “plainly a disaster.”

“You know, people have been calling me saying, ‘You must feel great because she called you a washed-up loser lawyer during the hearing,'” Raskin said of their sparring during Bondi’s testimony before Congress last month.

“I have no personal animus towards Pam Bondi,” Raskin continued. “And I understand she was a pretty good prosecutor in Florida, and I hope she can restore her reputation. But going all the way down the road with the corruption in the administration, I think is a career killer for a lot of people.”

Sanchez asked Raskin what he made of the timing of Bondi’s departure, “in part because it was only yesterday that Bondi had summoned the head prosecutor overseeing an investigation into whether former CIA director John Brennan made false statements to Congress about a year’s old Intel assessment of Russian meddling in the 2016 election.”

Sanchez continued, “Our reporting indicates that Bondi was trying to communicate to that prosecutor that she believed that he was slow walking that investigation and that she wanted to see some development in the case. Do you think that the fact that she’s been fired makes it more likely that we’ll see similar prosecutions in the near future?”

“Well, that’s what I’m afraid of,” Raskin answered. “You know, she turned the Department of Justice into Donald Trump’s vendetta factory.”

Raskin said it didn’t give him “a lot of comfort” that Trump has appointed Deputy AG Todd Blanche to take Bondi’s place.

“This is the guy who transferred Ghislaine Maxwell from the higher security prison to the low security prison camp in Texas and has arranged for a very sweet landing for her there,” he said.

Sanchez asked Raskin if he still expected Bondi to testify during a deposition on the Epstein files before the House Oversight Committee as scheduled on April 14, after Chairman James Comer (R-KY) that he would “counsel with other Republicans on the panel to determine next steps.”

“Well a legal subpoena is still a legal subpoena, and she has the responsibility and the duty to appear,” Raskin said. “It may be that the Chairman Comer, in his utterly invertebrate subservience to Donald Trump’s administration, will see if he can get enough Republicans to vote to withdraw the subpoena. But I believe that my colleague, ranking member Garcia, is absolutely right. That subpoena is still valid, and she needs to appear.”

Watch the clip above via CNN.

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