Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Tuesday tore into Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee in response to accusations toward Attorney General Pam Bondi of weaponizing the Department of Justice.
Bondi sat for testimony before the Senate Committee following the grand jury indictment of former FBI Director James Comey and President Trump’s deployment of federal agents and National Guard troops across the nation.
While Democrats used the hearing to attack Bondi and the Trump Administration for perceived targeting of political opponents, Hawley went off, exposing the true weaponization of justice seen during the Biden Regime, and slammed Democrats for gaslighting the American people.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Joe Biden’s FBI – and later Jack Smith – spied on eight Republican Senators during the ‘Arctic Frost’ investigation into January 6. This is in addition to the Regime’s targeting of President Trump, Catholic citizens, concerned parents at school board meetings, and conservative groups like Turning Point USA.
Several Republican Congressmembers and private citizens were also targeted by Biden’s Quiet Skies program, which used air marshals to track and observe suspicious passengers and subjects of open FBI terrorism investigations while they traveled by air. Notably, the program failed to prevent a single terrorist attack, which was the purported intention of the initiative.
Freshman Rep. Abe Hamadeh (R-AZ) recently revealed that he was even targeted as a candidate for Arizona Attorney General and a private citizen– after he questioned and spoke out against his rigged midterm election.
Hawley slammed the Democrats for claiming that Biden never targeted political opponents, adding, “That’s interesting because I could have sworn that yesterday we learned that the FBI tapped my phone… tapped Lindsey Graham’s phone, tapped Marsha Blackburn’s phone, tapped five other phones of United States senators.”
“Gee, it sure looks like targeting political opponents to me, and yet, I haven’t heard a word from that side of the dais about any concern whatsoever,” he continued. He then asked Bondi for details on who ordered this weaponization, but she declined to comment “for very good reason,” later confirming that she and FBI Director Kash Patel are actively investigating the scandal.
WATCH:
Hawley: I’ve been listening closely in this hearing, and I’ve heard over and over from my Democrat colleagues concerns about targeting political enemies, and they’ve accused you of all manner of things, and the current president. I’ve also heard them say— and I just wrote it down because I want to be sure I heard it correctly. I’ve heard them say that Joe Biden never targeted his political enemies. Joe Biden never directed his attorney general to target his political opponents. Huh? That’s interesting because I could have sworn that yesterday we learned that the FBI tapped my phone. Let’s look at it. We’ve got a list. Tapped my phone, tapped Lindsey Graham’s phone, tapped Marsha Blackburn’s phone, tapped five other phones of United States senators. Gee, it sure looks like targeting political opponents to me, and yet, I haven’t heard a word from that side of the dais about any concern whatsoever. We’ve got nothing but concerns today, but no concern at all for a Justice Department that is tapping the phones of sitting United States senators, because who knows why? They don’t like them? They’re members of the opposition party? They’re Republicans? They’re conservatives? You’ve seen this document, Attorney General Bondi. What was going on here? Who ordered this? Who ordered the tapping of the phones of United States senators?
Bondi: Senator Hawley, I cannot discuss the details of that right now for very good reason.
Hawley: You’re going to do a thorough investigation into this, I trust. Is that correct?
Bondi: We will be looking at all aspects of this, and I have talked to Director Patel at length about this.
Hawley continued, highlighting several more examples of Biden weaponizing the FBI and DOJ against political opponents and dissidents of his regime in a scathing seven-minute speech, condemning Joe Biden, Jack Smith, and the Biden Department of Justice.
Bondi confirmed that Biden led the “ultimate weaponization,” and “under Donald Trump’s watch, it has ended.”
“No longer will parents who care about whether their elementary school children have to read a transgender book be targeted and told they cannot have any say in their child’s education,” said Bondi. “People can worship freely, whether they’re Catholics, at synagogues, or Muslims; everyone can worship freely. That was the ultimate weaponization. They were targeting Catholics. No longer. They have been targeting so many American citizens throughout this country.”
Watch the full exchange below: