Donald Trump has called for former special counsel Jack Smith to be prosecuted and even thrown out of the U.S., but the president-elect’s pick for attorney general declined to say Wednesday whether she’d investigate Smith’s conduct if confirmed.
“I haven’t seen the file. I haven’t seen the investigation. I haven’t looked at anything,” Pam Bondi said during questioning by Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) “It would be irresponsible of me to make a commitment.”
During a testy exchange, Bondi told Schiff she wouldn’t rely on his “summary” of the situation to make a decision, prompting the senator to reply: “Not a summary by the president either?”
“I will look at the facts and evidence,” she replied.
Smith resigned from the Justice Department last week after submitting his final report on his investigations into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results and the presence of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago after he left office in 2021.
