By Molly Claire Goddard
2:09pm PDT, Jun 29, 2025
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Pam Bondi refused to answer any questions about foreign dealings with
Donald Trump's cryptocurrency venture.
During a Wednesday, June 25, Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, Oregon Senator
Jeff Merkley pressed the current Attorney General on whether or not she was concerned about the United Arab Emirates investing $2 billion in the Trump family's cryptocurrency company World Liberty Financial. However, Bondi diverted to another topic to avoid answering.
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During the meeting on Capitol Hill, Jeff Merkley asked Pam Bondi about Donald Trump sending thousands of A.I. chips to the United Arab Emirates.
"Does this sequence of events concern you about foreign influence on the United States of America?" Merkley pressed.
"The foreign influence that I would be concerned about if I were you is the Mexican that we just — the Mexican national that resided in Oregon who we just arrested who had 384 pounds of methamphetamine," Bondi replied.
Bondi also pointed to "the Honduran drug trafficker who was residing in Portland for distributing fentanyl."
In another example, the former attorney general of Florida highlighted a "Mexican national" in Oregon. "57,700 fentanyl pills and stolen firearms in Oregon — that's what we should work together on, not gotcha questions during a budget hearing on public safety," Bondi stated.
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Jeff Merkley wasn't pleased with Pam Bondi's responses. "The attorney general has made the point that she's very concerned about the issues that I'm concerned about as well regarding security in this country," he explained.
"But let the record note that in terms of foreign influence and the sale of foreign influence through the president's coins, she absolutely refuses to respond and instead turns to a whole list of different topics," the leftist added. "I think it's important for the leader of the Justice Department of the United States to be very concerned about foreign influence. I encourage you to take on the topic and not consider it an offense that those of us who are concerned here, Democrats and Republicans, want Americans to make American decisions. Not foreign influence being bought through crypto coins."
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Jeff Merkley and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren have raised concerns about Donald Trump's business dealings with the United Arab Emirates by requesting that the Office of Government Ethics investigate the matter.
The two prominent Democrats claim the dealings "represent a staggering conflict of interest, one that may violate the Constitution and open our government to a startling degree of foreign influence and the potential for a quid pro quo that could endanger national security."
