Pam Bondi, Donald Trump’s nominee for US Attorney General, was an early promoter of falsehoods surrounding Pennsylvania’s 2020 election results. She continued to cast doubts about those election results at her confirmation hearing on Wednesday.
Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the US Department of Justice (DOJ), Pam Bondi, appeared before the US Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington DC on Wednesday for her confirmation hearing to be US Attorney General.
Bondi, a corporate lawyer, served as Florida’s Attorney General from 2010 to 2018 and played an early and important role in spreading falsehoods about Pennsylvania’s 2020 election results.
In the days following the 2020 election, Bondi appeared on Fox News and participated in the infamous Four Seasons press conference with Rudy Giuliani, claiming that Trump won Pennsylvania when he didn’t.
“We do have evidence of cheating. We are still on the ground in Pennsylvania. I’m here right now and we are not going anywhere until they declare that we won Pennsylvania,” Bondi said on a Fox and Friends appearance in Nov. 2020.
Bondi made these false accusations when there were still almost a million mail-in ballots to be counted.
The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office issued a statement around that time explaining that there was no fraud during the 2020 election.
At Wednesday’s confirmation hearing, Bondi continued to evade responsibility about her role in spreading falsehoods regarding Pennsylvania’s 2020 election results.
“All I can tell you as a prosecutor is from my firsthand experience,” Bondi said. “What I can tell you is what I saw firsthand when I went to Pennsylvania as an advocate for the [Trump] campaign. I was an advocate for the campaign and I was on the ground in Pennsylvania and I saw many things there. Do I accept the results? Of course I do. I saw so much.”
