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Even now, Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi can’t tell us who won the 2020 election.

Questioned by Senator Mazie Hirono, Bondi would not answer directly, saying only that “Joe Biden is the president of the United States.” Upon further questioning, Bondi remained unwilling to state who had actually won. Her election denialism, after all, passes the loyalty test President Trump expects from his Attorney General.

Bondi’s denialism is nothing new. Back in 2020, even as the votes were still being counted, she joined Rudy Giuliani at Four Seasons Landscaping in a parking lot next to a sex shop and a crematorium, and falsely claimed they had “evidence of cheating” and “fake ballots.” She announced, “We are not going anywhere until they declare we won Pennsylvania… We are thrilled to have won Pennsylvania.”

In reality, of course, Trump lost Pennsylvania that year by more than 80,000 votes, but this did not prevent Bondi from joining Trump’s Big Lie claiming election fraud, and attempting to throw out the votes of millions of Americans. In the following weeks, she became litigation advisor for five of Trump’s 62 unsuccessful lawsuits challenging the election.

After this week’s hearing, Senator Dick Durbin, Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee, released a statement drawing the connection between Bondi’s election denialism in 2020 and her current inability to answer the question:

“Pam Bondi has proved herself loyal to Donald Trump and wealthy special interests -- and not the American people. Her early and active role in promoting lies about the 2020 presidential election show it. The American people deserve an Attorney General who will protect their right to vote always -- not only when it’s convenient or suits your political party.”

As part of her efforts to thwart accurate vote counting in 2020, Bondi turned the wrath of MAGA voters on local election officials who were just doing their job. She singled out Republican Seth Bluestein, who had merely been engaging with poll observers from both parties. Immediately after his name was mentioned, Bluestein began receiving antisemitic harassment and death threats so serious he and his family needed police protection.

This was not Bondi’s first time on the Trump Train. Back in 2016, as Florida’s Attorney General, she received a $25,000 donation from Trump just days before she decided not to join the lawsuit against Trump University. She denies this gift was a bribe, although Trump also held a fundraiser for her right after she dropped the investigation.

There are plenty of other reasons Bondi should not be anywhere near the Attorney General’s office. She has headed a Trump Super PAC, lobbied for foreign governments, tried to destroy the Affordable Care Act, spread false information from the Kremlin about the Bidens, and even guest hosted a Fox News program while ostensibly serving as Florida Attorney General.

But especially concerning is that if confirmed, she will be the person to whom the FBI Director reports. If that person turns out to be Kash Patel, she shows no inclination to rein in his efforts to “go after” the list of 60 “deep state” officials he named in his book, Government Gangsters. “I don’t believe he has an enemies list,” she testified in her hearing. “He made a quote on TV that I have not heard.”

Tell your Senators: Reject the nomination of Pam Bondi for Attorney General. Her history as an election denier and apologist for Trump’s “Big Lie” proves she is not qualified to protect the right to vote that belongs to every American citizen, disqualifying her from becoming Attorney General of the United States. >>>

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Whose side is Tulsi Gabbard on?

Russian state television refers to Trump’s pick for Director of National Intelligence as “our girlfriend.” Now why, exactly, would Putin’s mouthpiece say this about the person Donald Trump has chosen to be head of U.S. Intelligence?

The DNI is the principal advisor to the President, the National Security Council, and the Homeland Security Council, directly in charge of the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, and all 15 other U.S. Intelligence agencies, with a budget of $100 billion. It is the most politically sensitive position imaginable, responsible for maintaining literally every state secret and shaping the President’s information environment.

But Trump’s pick, Tulsi Gabbard, regularly parrots Russian propaganda, which her former aides say she herself consumes on a daily basis. She blames the United States for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and she disputes established U.S. intelligence indicating that Syrian dictator Bashar Assad used chemical weapons against his own people in the Syrian Civil War.

“Behind closed doors,” one GOP aide told The Hill, “people think she might be compromised. It’s not hyperbole. There are members of our conference who think she’s a [Russian] asset.” But Trump himself has called Putin’s invasion of Ukraine “genius,” and consistently claims he trusts Putin more than he trusts U.S. intelligence. Why wouldn’t he want a Russian asset to give him his daily intelligence briefing?

As Trump prepares to return to the White House, it is more important than ever that the country is protected from his worst instincts. Nominating Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence is Trump at his worst, a direct invitation to Putin to set our national agenda. The Senate must reject this nomination.

As the person responsible for the entire nation’s gathering of intelligence, and for transmitting this information to the President and all the Executive agencies, it is no exaggeration to say the DNI guides and helps formulate the President’s thoughts on the most confidential workings of the United States’ relationships with every nation in the world, both allies and adversaries.

Now, nearly 100 former senior U.S. diplomats and national security officials are urging Senate leaders to schedule closed-door hearings to review everything the government has on Gabbard. Having served in both Democratic and Republican administrations, the officials say they are “alarmed” by her nomination, as her actions “call into question her ability to deliver unbiased intelligence briefings to the President, Congress, and to the entire national security apparatus.”

Retired intelligence officer Doug Loudon told ABC News that Gabbard’s spouting of Russian disinformation may result from “naïveté, collusion, or politically opportunistic sycophancy” to try to please Trump, but in any case, she would not be a reliable source to “tell it like it is” to the President and intelligence community.

Ultimately we have to wonder how someone this potentially compromised could even be considered to be responsible for all the nation’s most top secret information? Unless, of course, the President actually intends to share everything with the Kremlin’s girlfriend.

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