{"id":4928,"date":"2025-01-15T15:49:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T15:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bondi-sidesteps-question-of-whether-biden-won-the-2020-election\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T15:49:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T15:49:15","slug":"bondi-sidesteps-question-of-whether-biden-won-the-2020-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bondi-sidesteps-question-of-whether-biden-won-the-2020-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Bondi sidesteps question of whether Biden won the 2020 election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Pam Bondi, Donald Trump\u2019s nominee to be attorney general, repeatedly declined to say Wednesday that Joe Biden won the 2020 election, saying he was \u201cduly sworn in\u201d but sidestepping a question about whether he was the legal winner of the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Bondi\u2019s refusal to answer the \u201cyes or no\u201d question was concerning and he encouraged her to listen to Trump\u2019s hourlong call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which Trump asked Georgia officials to \u201cfind\u201d enough votes to reverse the outcome. Bondi said she\u2019d only heard a clip.<\/p>\n<p>Durbin pressed Bondi on how she would advise Trump on clemency decisions for people who attacked police officers on Jan. 6, 2021. Bondi emphasized that the decisions are entirely in Trump\u2019s purview but that if he asks her for advice, she will review each case file before making a recommendation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI condemn any violence on a law enforcement officer in this country,\u201d Bondi added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pam Bondi, Donald Trump\u2019s nominee to be attorney general, repeatedly declined to say Wednesday that Joe Biden won the 2020 election, saying he was \u201cduly sworn in\u201d but sidestepping a question about whether he was the legal winner of the contest. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Bondi\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}