Vermont Democrat Gives Thumbs Up for Bondi

As I have stated in other reports, I have little doubt about Pam Bondi being confirmed as our Attorney General.

While I doubt she will get unanimous support, I do suspect there will be quite a few Democrats who will vote to approve her.

To that point, Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) gave a rather impressive review of her performance before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Did a Good Job

CNN’s Manu Raju commented after the hearing on the comments he received from Welch.

Raju stated, “Peter Welch, Dem on Senate Judiciary, sounding positive about Pam Bondi. Said she did a ‘good job.’

“He says about other Dem concerns about her independence from Trump: ‘The president is always going to have somebody that he or she feels comfortable with,’ Welch told me.”

While Bondi will be approved, the narrative that Democrats are clearly pushing during these confirmation hearings are the comments made by Trump and Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee to be the FBI Director, after Trump lost the 2020 election.

Both Trump and Patel have expressed their desire to go after Trump’s political enemies in the past, but both have more or less recanted that during this election cycle and post-election.

Patel flat-out stated that he would not be targeting anyone, and Trump said he would stay out of the DOJ and FBI on that front.

Trump has stated the best revenge will be a successful presidency.

Having said that, if they find that people abused FISA or were coordinating with other prosecutors and that they did anything illegal, that is not revenge; that is justice.

Sadly, however, for people like Liz Cheney, while what she did during the J6 hearings was underhanded and had horrible optics, she did not technically do anything illegal.

For instance, hearings are not a court of law, so witness tampering is not even an issue. What Cheney did with Cassidy Hutchinson would have landed her in jail in a court of law, but House hearing rules stipulate that the only people who cannot contact witnesses or discuss the case with them are attorneys for other witnesses.

This is why I have repeatedly stated that I would like to see Congress adopt courtroom rules for hearings. No hearsay, no coaching witnesses, no witness tampering, and protective evidence rules.

If that is not done, these hearings will always favor the side that is in charge, meaning they are nothing more than expensive entertainment at the expense of the American taxpayer.

That is why when a committee makes some large announcement about some crime they believe they found, I don’t get excited because until I see that referral and indictment, it is nothing but talk for headlines to drive donations to their campaigns.