Senate Democrat Warns Bondi Not to Target Trump’s Political Enemies
Whitehouse reminds attorney general of pledge she made under oath
A top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee is warning Attorney General Pam Bondi not to investigate Donald Trump’s political enemies.
Sen Sheldon Whitehouse recently wrote Bondi to remind her of the pledge she offered him during her recent confirmation hearing to become the nation’s top law enforcement official.
Trump has demonstrated effort to target those individual Americans and institutions that oppose him.
However, Whitehouse, of Rhode Island, is cautioning Bondi not to get the Justice Department caught up in Trump’s campaign of retribution.
He sent a letter Monday to Bondi reminding her that she testified under oath to Congress that she would reject directives “to start with a name and look for a crime” and would “not target people simply because of their political affiliation.”
Trump recently signed unprecedented directives that the Justice Department investigate Christopher Krebs, Trump’s director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency during his first term; and Miles Taylor, who served as chief of staff of the Homeland Security Department in the first Trump administration.
Krebs and Taylor were vocal critics of Trump, and Taylor was included on FBI Director Kash Patel’s “Enemies List.”
Whitehouse wrote to Bondi in the new letter, “You may recall that at your confirmation hearing on January 15, 2025, I asked you the following question: ‘[I]t would not be appropriate for a prosecutor to start with a name and look for a crime. It’s the prosecutor’s job to start with a crime and look for a name, correct?’”
Whitehouse continued in his letter, “On April 9, 2025, President Trump issued Presidential Memoranda singling out for investigation Christopher Krebs, former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Miles Taylor, former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security.”
“Now that President Trump has given you two names and asked you to look for a crime, you face a pretty clear test. It ought to be an easy one,” Whitehouse concluded.
The text of the letter is below and a PDF is available here.
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