Credit: C-SPAN 2 screenshot A far-left Democrat senator got humiliated by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi when he foolishly tried to smear Trump as being corrupt. Bondi was invited to testify on Wednesday at the hearing on the Department of Justice’s 2026 budget request, but Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) wanted to use his questioning to paint Trump as vulnerable to foreign influences. The Oregon senator demanded to know whether the President was compromised when a United Arab Emirates (UAE) investment firm funneled $2 billion into one of his cryptocurrencies last month. Later in the month, the Trump administration eased restrictions on the UAE’s purchase of advanced American-made semiconductors for its artificial intelligence projects. This move reversed a Biden-era policy, which banned the sale of AI-capable…
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