Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) defended former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. Attorney General, this week after she promised to remove anti-Trump individuals from the department.
Lankford made the remarks during a Sunday interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Dana Bash when asked about whether Bondi would weaponize the department to go after Trump’s political opponents.
“[Trump] wants to make sure that the people that are around him in the Cabinet are at least directionally the right direction,” he said. “This has been a question, quite frankly, since the Kennedy administration, when President Kennedy put his brother in as attorney general.”
Bash then played a clip of remarks that Bondi made in the past on Fox News:
BONDI: The Department of Justice, the prosecutors will be prosecuted, the bad ones. The investigators…
