{"id":4941,"date":"2025-01-15T18:48:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T18:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bondi-wont-say-if-shell-investigate-jack-smith\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T18:48:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T18:48:57","slug":"bondi-wont-say-if-shell-investigate-jack-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bondi-wont-say-if-shell-investigate-jack-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Bondi won\u2019t say if she\u2019ll investigate Jack Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>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&#8217;s pick for attorney general declined to say Wednesday whether she\u2019d investigate Smith\u2019s conduct if confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven&#8217;t seen the file. I haven&#8217;t seen the investigation. I haven&#8217;t looked at anything,\u201d Pam Bondi said during questioning by Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) \u201cIt would be irresponsible of me to make a commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During a testy exchange, Bondi told Schiff she wouldn\u2019t rely on his \u201csummary\u201d of the situation to make a decision, prompting the senator to reply: \u201cNot a summary by the president either?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will look at the facts and evidence,\u201d she replied.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/01\/11\/jack-smith-resigns-justice-department-trump-criminal-investigation-00197694\" target=\"_blank\">Smith resigned from the Justice Department<\/a> last week after submitting his final report on his investigations into Trump&#8217;s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results and the presence of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago after he left office in 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s pick for attorney general declined to say Wednesday whether she\u2019d investigate Smith\u2019s conduct if confirmed. \u201cI haven&#8217;t seen the file. I haven&#8217;t seen the investigation. I haven&#8217;t looked at anything,\u201d Pam Bondi [&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-4941","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\/4941","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=4941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}