Schumer places hold on DOJ political nominees
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Pam Bondi’s salary, partly from her lobbying for Qatar, complicates the question of accepting a $400 million gift from the country.
Bondi confirmed she lobbied for Qatar while at Ballard Partners but said the $115,000 figure represented the firm's contract, not her own earnings.
Attorney General Bondi's links to Qatar as a foreign lobbyist for the country are in the spotlight again amid news of Trump's new Air Force One.
Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) pressed Attorney General Pam Bondi on Wednesday over her decision to deem President Trump’s potential acceptance of a luxury Qatari jet as a “legally
Senator Dick Durbin said the gift of a Boeing 747 to be used as Air Force One “clearly violates” the Constitution and questioned Bondi’s history as a registered foreign lobbyist on behalf of the Middle East state.
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Qatar’s potential plan to provide a $400 million jumbo jet to the U.S. to use as Air Force One underscores how the tiny Gulf state has managed to diplomatically punch above its weight for years: It has a lot of money and is willing to spend it.
The attorney general sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of shares on April 2, disclosure forms showed.
Stephen Miller is running the DOJ, and Pam Bondi is just a figurehead, report claims: ‘She is like an actor’ - Attorney general is the face of the department, but report says agenda is being set from
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi regarding the legal justification for President Trump’s attempted acquisition of a private jet as a gift from the royal family of Qatar, which the President has since confirmed.
The Brooklyn Democrat slammed the gift — which Trump plans to hand over to his presidential library when he leaves office — as “blatant corruption.”
Bondi now says she works “at the directive of Donald Trump,” while Rubio has claimed the power to detain and deport students and travelers based on their social media posts.