President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the US Justice Department said her “overriding objective” if confirmed “would be to return the Department of Justice to its core mission of keeping Americans safe and vigorously enforcing the law.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pam Bondi, Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, said she accepted the results of the 2020 election that Trump lost to President Joe Biden but suggested during a confirmation hearing Wednesday that she had witnessed significant problems in Pennsylvania when she traveled to state as an advocate for the Republican’s campaign.

Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, is insisting at her Senate confirmation hearing that Trump had been targeted by years of investigations

Minn., that the Department of Justice would act independently of the White House if she were to be confirmed as attorney general.

Donald Trump's choice for attorney general, Pam Bondi, vowed to end "the partisan weaponization" of the U.S. justice system if confirmed, echoing the president-elect's assertion that the prosecutions he faced were politically motivated.

Pam Bondi is set to meet in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday for her confirmation hearing to become the next US attorney general.

Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, will face a Senate panel on Wednesday where Democrats are expected to grill her over the Republican president-elect's threats to use the Justice Department to seek revenge against his political enemies.

Donald Trump's choice for attorney general, Pam Bondi, vowed on Wednesday not to use the U.S. Justice Department to target people based on their politics, seeking to allay concerns the president-elect will use law enforcement to go after his opponents.