US attorney general pick Pam Bondi refuses to acknowledge Trump lost the 2020 election – video

Under questioning from Democratic ranking member Dick Durbin, attorney general nominee Pam Bondi dodged when asked if she believed Donald Trump lost his bid for re-election in 2020 at her confirmation hearing to lead the justice department. Bondi is widely seen as actually sharing Trump’s continued belief that the 2020 election was stolen from him, based on her support for the president-elect’s fabricated claims of election fraud after previously working to defend him at his first impeachment trial

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