Pam Bondi accused of ‘pandering’ to Trump as she stays mum on legality of sending inmates to El Salvador

WASHINGTON, DC: Attorney General Pam Bondi refrained from answering Fox News host Jesse Watters’ question on the legality of President Donald Trump’s proposal to send “some of the most horrible” American citizens to El Salvador’s mega-prison.

Bondi, 59, appeared on Watters’ Fox News show ‘Jesse Watters Primetime’ on Monday, April 14, as the journalist pressed on the matter and asked whether it was “legal” to send American citizens to an overseas prison, as reported by Mediaite. 

While Bondi carefully refused to reflect on the nuanced question, she did declare that since these “horrible” people “need to be locked up," and they will ensure to keep them imprisoned to make America “safe again.”

Pam Bondi did not comment on legality of sending prisoners to El Salvador prison

Speaking to Pam Bondi, Jesse Watters reflected on Donald Trump’s recent “musing” about the possibility of sending down some prisoners to the El Salvadoran prison, and said, “The president was musing about sending some of the most horrible people in this country down to that mega-prison.”

“You know, people that push ladies into subways and hit old ladies with baseball bats to the head,” he continued, before dropping his questions, “Is that legal to do? Is that something you’re allowed to do?”

“Well, Jesse,” Bondi responded, noting, “These are Americans he is saying who have committed the most heinous crimes in our country, and crime is going to decrease dramatically because he has given us a directive to make America safe again.”

“These people need to be locked up as long as they can, as long as the law allows,” continued the Attorney General, side-stepping the original question, before adding, “We’re not gonna let them go anywhere and if we have to build more prisons in our country, we will do it.”

Agreeing, Watters concluded, “Right, that’s what I thought.”

Previously, Trump mused on the possibility of sending American prisoners to El Salvador’s mega-prison while adding that if the Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele “would take them,” he would gladly send them off. 

Telling the reporters he would “love that,” the Commander-in-Chief said, “If we could take some of our 20-time wise guys that push people into subways and hit people over the back of the head and then purposely run people over in cars, if he [El Salvador President Nayib Bukele] would take them, I would be honored to give them.’

“I don’t know what the law says on that but I can’t imagine the law would say anything different,” added the president, before claiming, “If they can house these horrible criminals for a lot less money than it costs us, I’m all for it but I would only do according to the law.”

After taking office in January, Trump has sent a large number of illegal immigrants to El Salvador’s CECOT mega-prison facility, including a Maryland resident, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was allegedly deported by mistake.

Donald Trump says they will be ‘looking at the laws’

While Pam Bondi refrained from addressing the legality of the situation, Donald Trump himself was not very sure whether the idea was “legal.”

During the Oval Office meeting, the President said, “I said to Pam — I don’t know what the laws are, we always have to obey the laws — but we also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways, that hit elderly ladies on the back of the head with a baseball bat when they’re not looking, that are absolute monsters,” as reported by the Independent. 

The 78-year-old continued, “I’d like to include them in the group of people to get them out of the country. But you’ll have to be looking at the laws.”

Bondi, however, shared earlier this week that she was “studying the law” regarding the idea.

Internet accuses Pam Bondi 'pandering' to Donald Trump 

The social media users were, however, left unimpressed with Pam Bondi's words, and accused her of being a "DEI hire."

One of the readers commented on the article, "She was hired because she is loyal and has proven herself able to be OK with the corruption when she herself is not outright benefiting from it."

"DEI is not about hiring. It's a practice. She's pandering to Trump," said someone else. 

Another user added, "Part of the Attorney General's job is also to tell the president (who might not have a law degree) what the law does and does not allow him to do. The Attorney General is not supposed to be a bobblehead. Bondi is not doing her job in that regard."

"Would all her crimes be federal? The lady has had a very dodgy career," added another. 

Someone else noted, "When she acts outside the law, she sacrifices power. Bondi is weaker than any AG in modern political history."

"I refuse to believe she actually passed the bar exam," one person said, before adding, "Impossible."

"They hate America and everything it stands for. I don't know why," one individual remarked.

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