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Attorney General Pam Bondi connected Tuesday personally stripped the Justice Department's walls of portraits of erstwhile President Joe Biden, erstwhile Vice President Kamala Harris, and her ain predecessor, erstwhile Attorney General Merrick Garland, saying it was "ridiculous" for the portraits to bent astir 3 weeks into President Donald Trump's tenure
Bondi's relation successful personally removing the portraits, archetypal shared connected X by the New York Post's Miranda Devine, was confirmed to Fox News Digital by a Justice Department official.
Bondi "saw portraits of Garland, Biden, Harris were inactive up, and she took the inaugural to instrumentality them disconnected the walls herself and stack them successful the corner," the authoritative told Fox News.
BONDI SWORN IN AS ATTORNEY GENERAL WITH MISSION TO END 'WEAPONIZATION' OF JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
The actions travel aft Bondi, who was sworn successful earlier this month, vowed during her confirmation proceeding successful January not to politicize the Justice Department.
Bondi, a longtime authorities authoritative successful Florida and two-time authorities lawyer general, utilized her astir five-hour confirmation proceeding past period to vow that, if confirmed, the "partisanship, the weaponization" astatine the Justice Department "will beryllium gone."
"America volition person 1 tier of justness for all," she said.
Trump, for his part, praised Bondi during her swearing-in ceremonial earlier this period arsenic "unbelievably just and unbelievably good," and idiosyncratic who helium said volition "restore just and impartial justice" astatine the department.
"I cognize I'm expected to say, 'She's going to beryllium wholly impartial with respect to Democrats,'" Trump told reporters then, "and I deliberation she volition beryllium arsenic impartial arsenic a idiosyncratic tin be."
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