President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for U.S. Attorney general, Pam Bondi, refused to say twice during her Senate confirmation hearing that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election.
The Washington Post noted that Bondi pushed Trump’s false election fraud claims about Pennsylvania:
Bondi declared: “We won Pennsylvania, and we want every vote to be counted in a fair way.”
…in public appearances in the week after the election, Bondi also made unfounded allegations about“evidence of cheating” and “fake ballots,”and in private huddles with other campaign advisers she discussed legal strategies to challenge the resultsin a stateJoe Biden ultimately won by 80,000 votes…
Pennsylvania officials from both parties say there were consequences to her actions, arguing that Bondi spread misinformation that helped wreak long-lasting damage to the electoral system. One city official received antisemitic threats immediately after Bondi accused him of trying to intimidate Republican observers of the ballot count.
(Sources: C-SPAN 2 via YouTube, CNN/YouTube, The Washington Post)