Trump targets Blumenthal after conflict between senator and legal professional common

[ad_1] President Donald Trump on Tuesday night time referred to as for the investigation of a Democratic U.S. senator following U.S. Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi’s listening to earlier than the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Throughout her almost 5 hours of questioning, stress escalated between the legal professional common and Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal when he questioned whether or not or not she acted beneath Trump’s political strain, each in prosecuting Trump’s enemies — like former FBI Director James Comey — and in approving company mergers that appear to contradict the administration’s anti-big enterprise stance.

“I perceive this situation of weaponization of justice goes to the core of the integrity of our legal justice system, and I feel we are able to all agree that no particular person, no group, must be focused just because they're a political opponent, or as a result of the president United States has some private animosity towards them,” Blumenthal mentioned, additionally insinuating that Bondi might be complicit in compromising the independence of the Justice Division.

Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi seems earlier than a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight listening to on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025. | Mark Schiefelbein

Bondi evaded a few of his questions, however defended her actions and people of the federal authorities, labeling the senator’s questions as hypocritical given his personal controversial historical past of talking in truth.

“Sen. Blumenthal, I can't consider that you'd accuse me of impropriety whenever you lied about your navy service. You lied. You admitted you lied to be elected a U.S. senator,” she mentioned. “How dare you? I’m a profession prosecutor, don’t you ever problem my integrity. I've abided by each ethic normal. Don't query my potential to be honest and neutral as legal professional common,” she mentioned.

Trump brings up Blumenthal’s controversial previous Again in 2010, Blumenthal was caught misrepresenting his navy service as he campaigned for senator in Connecticut. On a number of events, he had mentioned or implied that he served “in Vietnam” when in actuality he served stateside within the Marine Corps Reserve.

On Tuesday night time, Trump posted on Reality Social, “This man shouldn’t even be within the U.S. Senate. It must be investigated, and Justice must be sought,” including that Blumenthal “would speak about his life within the navy in nearly each speech, specifically the dying defying risks he confronted in his a few years ‘combat for freedom’ whereas in Vietnam. He acknowledged that ‘the battles had been violent and lengthy, however there was no going again’ - After which it occurred, Blumenthal was came upon to be a FRAUD.”

Blumenthal responded to Trump’s publish on CNN, saying it was “utterly misleading and distorted,” which he additionally labeled Bondi’s efficiency in the course of the Senate listening to.

She was “lashing out as a result of she had no solutions or she needed to keep away from answering questions,” he mentioned. “So this type of private assault, I feel, actually was simply extraordinary. I’ve by no means seen something prefer it in 15 years. We’ve had disagreements with the attorneys common in the midst of our oversight listening to, however these oversight hearings are imagined to elicit information and explanations for conduct that we’re asking about,” he informed CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.