WATCH: GOP Senator Torches ‘Soviet’ Biden DOJ During Contentious Confirmation Hearing

During Wednesday’s confirmation hearing for Pam Bondi, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. Attorney General, Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) provided a detailed and concise overview of the wide-reaching efforts undertaken by the Biden Department of Justice to prosecute their political opponents. The conservative senator touched on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s dubious “hush money case” and its numerous connections to the Biden DOJ, the ill-fated racketeering case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and the defunct investigations brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith in a concise overview.

Throughout Wednesday’s hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Bondi was grilled by the panel’s Democrat members over whether she will allow the department to be “weaponized” under her leadership. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) asked Bondi — who previously served as the Attorney General of Florida — about past statements she has made about “prosecuting the prosecutors” who may have violated the law through the use of politically-motivated investigations.

“I said that on TV. I said prosecutors will be prosecuted to finish the quote if bad Investigators will be investigated,” Bondi responded. She then pointed to former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith, who pleaded guilty to falsifying documents in the bogus Russian collusion investigation, as an example of a corrupt prosecutor who was prosecuted himself.

Despite consistent promises to follow the law and bring charges against individuals only if evidence suggests they committed crimes, Bondi was repeatedly questioned about a “weaponized” Trump DOJ. “I am not going to answer hypotheticals. No one has been prejudged or nor will anyone be prejudged if I am confirmed,” the Trump nominee told Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) when asked whether she intends to prosecute Jack Smith or Liz Cheney. “These are in fact the people that you would prosecute,” Hirono replied despite Bondi’s answer. 

After listening to the same process play out over and over again, Senator Schmitt remarked that Democrats did not appear to have “learned very much” from President-elect Trump’s victory. “I do want to comment a little bit, I guess, on this newfound religion on independence from the Attorney General. I will remind my colleagues that the last three Democratic Attorneys General for the United States of America were perhaps the most biased, politically biased AGs we’ve had in modern political history in the United States,” he said, pointing to former Attorneys General Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, as well as current Attorney General Merrick Garland.

“We’ve never seen anything like this. And there is a story to be told,” the senator went on to say before pointing to President Biden’s dark, divisive speech given in the aftermath of the raid on Trump’s Mar-A-Lago estate in 2022. While speaking in front of a red backdrop, Biden labeled Trump and his supporters as “threats to Democracy” who needed to be defeated by any means necessary.

In the aftermath of Biden’s speech, Schmitt noted that a number of “zombie cases” against then-candidate Trump were “miraculously” revived. “You’ve got, of course, Jack Smith, the overzealous and disgraced special prosecutor who time and time again has been slapped down by courts for overcharging and taking an overtly political position. He, by the way, in his postmortem this week, even acknowledged that it was unusual for him to be tasked with going after the political opponent of the President of the United States,” Schmitt said. 

He further noted that the FBI was caught staging a viral photo from the Mar-A-Lago raid, which appeared to show a stack of documents labeled as “classified” or “top secret.” Smith ultimately conceded that the photo was staged for dramatic effect, adding that there was no way to verify whether the documents were classified or not.

FBI agents placed “classified” folders over unidentified documents recovered from President-elect Trump’s Mar-A-Lago estate. Smith later conceded that the photo was staged, adding that there was no way to tell whether the photographed documents were actually classified

In addition, Schmitt noted that President Biden was not charged for storing classified documents in a number of unsecured locations. Special Counsel Robert Hur previously concluded that Biden could have been criminally charged, though a conviction was unlikely as jurors would likely perceive him as a forgetful old man.

Elsewhere in the four-minute overview, Schmitt touched on the involvement of former DOJ official Matthew Colangelo in Bragg’s case. Colangelo resigned from the Biden DOJ despite being the third-most senior employee in the department, at which point he joined Bragg’s office as a low-level prosecutor.

“Why would the number three person go do that? Maybe there was coordination,” Schmitt continued before noting that the Biden White House also met with senior members of Fani Willis’ team before her case against Trump was filed.

“Well the truth is, as everybody knows, it was on full display. This was the worst case of lawfare we’ve ever seen. If this was happening in another country, our State Department would be warning us about it,” the senator concluded before comparing the Biden Department of Justice tactics to those used in the Soviet Union.