Donald Trump’s hardening about the Department of Justice to aim at his political opponents and the growing calls from legislators to release more archives from federal investigations on the deceased sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein will probably take the center of the stage at a contentious hearing of the Senate on Tuesday for the attorney general PAM Bondi.
The hearing before the Judicial Committee of the Senate is the first time since July that Bondi has faced questions from legislators and follows a tumultuous summer for the department that included federal police deployments to the cities administered by Democrat, an increasing number of investigations announced in Trump’s political enemies and the controversial accusation of former FBI director James Comey.
As ABC News first reported the movement to seek Comey’s accusation, it occurred on the objections of career prosecutors and followed the elimination of Trump of his designated to direct the United States prosecutor’s office for the East district of Virginia, Erik Siebert, who expressed reservations about the persecution against the charges against Comey and New York General Letitia James, according to the sources of ABC.
Trump finally installed a White House assistant and former personal lawyer Lindsey Halligan to direct the office and advance with the case against Comey, and a large jury voted little to accuse him about two positions of making false statements to Congress and obstruct an investigation of the Congress, while refusing to accuse a third position of false statements. Comey has denied irregularities and will appear on Thursday in a federal court for reading charges.
Attorney General Pam Bondi listens to as President Donald Trump signs a presidential memorandum on the death penalty in the Columbia district in the Oval Office of the White House, on September 25, 2025, in Washington.
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While the sources told ABC News that leadership in the Department of Justice expressed reservations about the search for the case, Bondi and the director of the FBI Kash Patel publicly began the news of the Comey’s accusation in news interviews and publications in social networks.
The following week, the Administration moved to fire a superior national security prosecutor in the office, Michael Ben’ary, for a deceptive social media post that falsely suggested that he was among the prosecutors who resisted accusing Comey.
Ben’ary led an important case against one of the alleged conspirators of the bombing of the Puerta de la Abadía during the withdrawal of the United States of Afghanistan. In a scathing exit letter, Ben’ary appeared directly in the leadership of the Department of Justice and described his removal as only one of a series of recent movements taken to eliminate career officials for political reasons at the expense of the nation’s security.
“This example highlights the most worrying aspect of the current operations of the Department of Justice: leadership is more concerned with punishing the president’s perceived enemies than protecting our national security,” Ben’ary wrote. “Justice for Americans killed and injured by our enemies should not depend on what someone in the Department of Justice sees in their food on social networks that day.”
The Department of Justice declined to comment when asked about Ben’ary’s letter.
These actions have caused unprecedented agitation in the East District, which supervises some of the most sensitive investigations of national security, terrorism and espionage of the nation.
Current and previous officials say that agitation has further reverberated in the workforce of the Department of Justice throughout the country, with lawyers worried that they will face professional repercussions if they resist participating in politicized investigations or prosecutions.
On Monday, almost 300 employees of the Department of Justice who left the department since the inauguration of Trump He released a letter On the eve of the Bondi audience that describes his leadership as “terrible” in his treatment of professional workforce and the elimination of the rules of independence of the White House.
“We call Congress that exercises its supervision responsibilities much more vigorously,” said former employees. “The members in both cameras and on both sides of the hall must provide significant control of the abuses we are witnessing. And we call all Americans, whose security, prosperity and rights depend on a strong justice department, to speak against their destruction.”
The Department of Justice declined to comment on the letter.
Bondi is likely to face a great scrutiny about the contradictory statements of the administration in the Epstein archives, after the Department of Justice and the FBI said in a letter in July that no more releases were justified and that there was no evidence to suggest that others participated or enabled Epstein’s abuse of minor girls.
The Democrats have accused the administration of trying to cover up any mention of Trump or named high profile that had previous associations with Epstein, which the administration has denied.
Trump and Epstein, who died for suicide in 2019 while waiting for a trial for traffic charges of girls and women, were friends in the 1990s, but the president said that the relationship was brought together after Epstin quoted some employees of the Trump Florida Club after he explicitly warned him that he did not.
An effort in progress in the House of Representatives to celebrate a vote on a measure that would require the administration to release all the archives has been waiting after President Mike Johnson sent home home in the midst of the closing of the current government.
The recent increase in acts of political violence will probably also be a central focus of questions for Bondi. Trump has recently ordered the department to increase investigations on the so -called “radical left” organizations that he and other High officials of the White House have alleged, without providing evidence, as helping to finance the perpetrators who have attacked federal officials of the law sent throughout the country.
A few days after Trump’s comments, a senior official in the Department of Justice ordered several offices of the United States prosecutor throughout the country that prepare to open criminal investigations swept to the foundations of the open society founded by billionaire George Soros, appointing criminal statutes that range from robberies, material support for terrorism and crime organization, previously confirmed ABC News.
In a statement, the bases of open society qualified the accusations “politically motivated attacks against civil Society, aimed at silencing speech, the administration does not agree and undermines the right of the first amendment to freedom of expression. “
In its most recent appearances before the Chamber and the Senate at the end of June, Bondi sought to decipher the specific questions of the Democrats by repeatedly deviating the crimes committed by undocumented immigrants in their states and districts that were among the informative materials that brought with them the audiences.
He has also dismissed any characterization of the Department of Justice that seems to work at the closure of the White House as “politicization” of the application of the law. Bondi and other senior officials of the Department of Justice have argued that the two federal cases filed against Trump by a special lawyer under the Biden administration represented a much more atrocious example of weapons, echoing complaints level in the department by Trump.
“Whether you are a former FBI director, be it a former head of an Intel community, whether he is a current elected and local elected official, whether he is a billionaire financing organizations to try to keep Donald Trump out of his position, everything is on the table,” Bondi said in a Fox News appearance last month. “We will investigate and end the weapon, there will be no two -level justice system.”
