Attorney General Pam Bondi vowed Thursday that the Justice Department will get back to its “core function” of prosecuting violent criminals — declaring that under President Trump “weaponization ends.”
“It’s the end of the weaponization of government and getting back to prosecuting violent crime and giving our great men and women the tools that they need in law enforcement,” Bondi told Fox News host Sean Hannity about what the DOJ’s priority will be under Trump.
“We will do everything in our power to find them and eradicate them in our country,” the newly-minted attorney general said of violent gangs, drug dealers and cartel members.
Her interview with Hannity was her first since taking the helm at the DOJ.
Bondi, 59, was sworn in as attorney general on Wednesday after senators confirmed her nomination the day before, with all but one Democrat — John Fetterman of Pennsylvania — voting against her.
Hours after her swearing-in ceremony, Bondi ordered the defunding of so-called “sanctuary jurisdictions” that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities in deportation proceedings.
Bondi’s busy first day as attorney general also saw the Justice Department slap the state of Illinois, Cook County and the city of Chicago with a lawsuit, arguing that their state and local laws inhibit the federal government’s ability to enforce US immigration law.
The former top Florida prosecutor was also ordered by President Trump Thursday to set up a DOJ task force aimed at rooting out “anti-Christian bias” in the federal government.
Trump, 78, has argued that under former President Joe Biden the Department of Justice, FBI and IRS had all engaged in anti-Christian discrimination.
