Former White House attorney Ty Cobb, who served during President Trump’s first term, lambasted Attorney General Pam Bondi for her combative congressional testimony Tuesday.
In an interview on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront,” Cobb said Bondi’s tenure as the country’s chief law enforcement official has been more “reprehensible” than that of Nixon-era Attorney General John Mitchell, who was later convicted for his role in the Watergate scandal.
Asked if he had ever “seen something like that before,” referring to Bondi’s performance, Cobb said, “Never.”
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“I think today she achieved one thing,” he continued. “She knocked John Mitchell off the perch of reprehensible attorney generals as No. 1, despite his guilty plea and time in jail.”
The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Bondi appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday for an oversight hearing that grew contentious and yielded little new information about activity at the Justice Department.
Bondi arrived armed with personal attacks against individual Democratic senators and lobbed them at her questioners when pressed on a range of topics.
She refused to divulge any discussions she’s had with the White House, including whether she and Trump have discussed the legal justification for National Guard deployments in Portland, Ore., and Chicago against local officials’ objections.
She also would not say who instructed the FBI to flag Trump’s name in the Epstein files, telling Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the committee’s ranking member, “I’m not going to discuss anything about that with you, senator.”
“Eventually, you’re going to have to answer for your conduct in this,” Durbin responded. “You won’t do it today, but eventually you will.”