Pam Bondi refuses to say Trump lost 2020 election in confirmation hearing
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Democratic senators push Trump’s pick for attorney general to declare her independence from the president-elect. Pam Bondi, Donald Trump’s nominee for the next U.S. attorney general, repeatedly refused to explicitly state that the president-elect lost the 2020 presidential election while she was grilled under oath during her Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday.
![[Senator Mazie Hirono told Pam Bondi that her refusal to explicitly say Trump lost in 2020 is ‘disturbing’]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/15/17/2025-01-15T164625Z_1784544261_RC2GACAZK6C9_RTRMADP_3_USA-TRUMP-BONDI.jpg)
Asked by Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Dick Durbin whether she can say whether Trump lost in 2020, Bondi did not say no. “President Biden is the president of the United States, he was duly sworn in, and he is the president of the United States,” she replied.
![[Trump’s nominee for attorney general Pam Bondi testified that she would commit to the Constitution but dodged questions on the legitimacy of his election loss in 2020]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/15/17/0a08300f4b86439982a3fb3ac82bac5a.jpg)
She said Trump “left office and he was overwhelmingly elected in 2024.”. Bondi suggested she claims to have seen evidence of fraud in Pennsylvania despite Trump’s own Justice Department, legal counsel and courts across the country finding no such thing to legitimize his narrative of a “stolen” and” rigged” election.
“Do I accept the results? Of course I do,” she said. “No one from either side of the aisle should want there to be any issue with election integrity.”. “I think that question deserved a yes or no,” Durbin replied. “I think the length of your question means you weren’t prepared to say yes.”.
Asked again by Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono, Bondi replied: “Joe Biden is the president of the United States.”. Hirono said there is a difference between acknowledging who is president and who won. “You can’t say who won the 2020 election. It’s disturbing,” she said.
