On Fox’s ‘Hannity,’ Pam Bondi suggests that Robert Mueller ‘corrupt’ probe ‘worse than Watergate’

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Count Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi among the increasing number of Republicans who are blasting special counsel Robert Mueller‘s Russian probe for being rife with partisan bias.

Bondi appeared on Fox News “Hannity” program Wednesday night as part of a panel discussion with host Sean Hannity and Sebastian Gorka, a former Donald Trump deputy assistant hired by the network as a commentator.

It is time to get “all of these other people off the case,” Bondi said, referring to eight prosecutors on Mueller’s team who were identified as giving campaign contributions to Democrats.

For weeks, conservative media outlets have accused Mueller’s team of investigators of bias, citing because of the campaign contributions to Democrats. Panhandle U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz is charging that the former FBI director’s team was “infected with bias” against the president, claiming the investigation puts the country at risk of a “coup d’etat.”

Several more congressional Republicans are sharing similar sentiments, many of them grilling Rod J. Rosenstein, deputy attorney general, Wednesday and calling to appoint a prosecutor to investigate Mueller’s investigation.

Their campaign was given legs when the Justice Department released hundreds of text messages exchanged last year between FBI agent Peter Strzok and an FBI attorney, Lisa Page, describing a possible Trump presidential victory as “terrifying” and saying that Hillary Clinton “just had to win.”

“God(,) Trump is a loathsome human,” Page added in a text; Strzok replies: “Yet he may win.”

Mueller removed Strzok from the Russian investigation upon being informed of those texts.

“They need to be dissolved, and they need to be investigated,” Bondi charged. “This team needs to be wiped out.”

At Wednesday’s congressional hearing, Rosenstein pushed back against the criticism that members of Mueller’s team could not be impartial prosecutors because they’d donated to Democrats. And he beat back repeated calls to select a second special prosecutor to investigate Mueller, saying that there is currently an inspector general with a 500-member staff and a $100 million budget already in place to review investigation.

Later in the show, Bondi agreed with Hannity that the level of corruption inside Mueller’s team was “worse than Watergate.”

“This is worse than Watergate, on a million levels here,” Hannity said.

“I agree,” Bondi interjected.

“By the time we entangle this massive web of corruption, it will be worse than Watergate,” Hannity repeated. “Watergate on human growth hormone and steroids combined at massive levels.”

“And you’re the one who had to untangle it, Sean, not the federal government,” Bondi said. “That’s the shame of it.”

Gorka followed up by saying he doubted Wednesday’s congressional hearing would’ve happened without Hannity’s interest in the issue.

“I agree,” Bondi added.

 

 

Mitch Perry

Mitch Perry has been a reporter with Extensive Enterprises since November of 2014. Previously, he served five years as political editor of the alternative newsweekly Creative Loafing. Mitch also was assistant news director with WMNF 88.5 FM in Tampa from 2000-2009, and currently hosts MidPoint, a weekly talk show, on WMNF on Thursday afternoons. He began his reporting career at KPFA radio in Berkeley and is a San Francisco native who has lived in Tampa since 2000. Mitch can be reached at [email protected].


9 comments

  • Reid Friedson, PhD

    December 14, 2017 at 9:27 am

    Sounds like Pam Bondi is afraid Mueller is looking into busting Rick Scott and her as part of the Trump Ring.

  • Joyce LaFray

    December 14, 2017 at 11:35 am

    Why do we get so many of these corrupt politicians in Florida? She’s on Trumps back pocket and lies almost as well.And she almost got caught on her last illegal transaction but weasled out of it.Let’s hope she’s out of here soon.I know of no women who support her.

  • Paula

    December 14, 2017 at 2:40 pm

    Another attempt by Trumpers to deflect attention. Hannity was inadvertently responsible for Moore’s defeat. During the interview (I watched it in its entirety), Hannity tried to prompt Moore to answer his questions “correctly,” but when Moore said he only dated under-age girls with the mother’s permission, Hannity pretty much sealed Moore’s fate.
    What about Neil Gorsuch? Didn’t hear you complain about him being too Republican on the Supreme Court.
    I live in Florida, btw, so I am familiar with Pam Bondi…

  • Dave DC

    December 14, 2017 at 4:08 pm

    The role of prosecutor is inherently adversarial. The texts seem to indicate that we have the exact opposite of a conflict of interest. There would be a conflict if the prosecutors were “on the administration’s side”, not what we have now. Adversarial prosecutors will leave no stone unturned in their efforts to get a conviction, which is what they are supposed to do.

  • DB McWeeberton

    December 14, 2017 at 6:27 pm

    The Trump University payoff queen thinks the Mueller probe needs to be dissolved? How much $ did Donald give her this time?

  • Eric

    December 16, 2017 at 5:48 am

    What I find most interesting here is that Hannity & Bondi openly call the Watergate INVESTIGATION a corrupt event. Have I missed something here? Has ANYONE established that Nixon was an innocent victim who should never have resigned?

  • Dennis

    December 16, 2017 at 9:21 am

    Bondi back taking bribes again from Donald? What a joke.

  • david

    December 16, 2017 at 9:04 pm

    tell a lie long enough it becomes truth

  • ETSJ

    December 17, 2017 at 12:52 am

    Same Pam Bondi that took a 25k bribe, I mean contribution, from Donald Trump to drop the Trump University investigation?

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