Sen. Dick Durbin expressed doubts about U.S. Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi in a series of posts on X Friday morning.

This story has been updated to correct the committee that Durbin leads. Sen. Dick Durbin (Ill.), the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, asked a suite of agencies that previously employed Kash Patel to turn over information on possible misconduct of President-elect Trump’s controversial pick to lead the FBI.

Ill., the ranking Senate Judiciary Committee Democrat, grilled Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee, Pam Bondi, at her confirmation hearing, Under oath, she declined to clearly acknowledge President Joe Biden won the 2020 election.

In his opening statement at the confirmation hearing for Pam Bondi, Senator Dick Durbin, D-Ill., focused on President-elect Trump's vows for retribution against his political opponents and questioned whether Bondi would pursue those vendettas as attorney general.

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Bondi’s statement represented both a refusal to admit Trump lost and an attempt to erase the mob violence Trump unleashed on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, which made the transfer of power from Trump to Biden a bit less than peaceful.

Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, will face sharp questioning from Democratic senators at a confirmation hearing expected to center on concerns Trump will look to use the Justice Department’s powers to seek retribution against his adversaries.

President-elect Donald Trump's choice to head the Justice Department -- former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi -- appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Ill., questioned U.S. attorney general nominee Pam Bondi in a confirmation hearing Wednesday held by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“To my knowledge, Donald Trump has never acknowledged the legal results of the 2020 election," Durbin said. "Are you prepared to say today, under oath, without reservation, that Donald Trump lost the presidential contest to Joe Biden in 2020?”

"Senator Rubio and I share many similar views on foreign policy and as a result, have worked closely together in the Senate to move forward with legislation regarding human rights around the world, the continued threat of China, and the recent sham election in Venezuela," Durbin said in the statement.