Appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi deflected when questioned on the recent indictment of former FBI Director James Comey and other controversies involving the U.S. Department of Justice.

Several Democrats on the committee brought up President Donald Trump's Sept. 20 social media post directed at Bondi saying he keeps hearing "nothing is being done" about some of his longtime perceived political foes: Comey; Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who led the first impeachment against Trump; and New York Attorney General Letitia James, who investigated Trump's business dealings.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., asked Bondi if she considered the Truth Social post a "directive" to the Justice Department.

"President Trump is the most transparent president in American history, and I don't think he said anything he hasn't said for years," Bondi responded.

Trump also complained in his Sept. 20 post that "we almost put in a Democrat supported U.S. Attorney, in Virginia," referring to former interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Erik Siebert, who resigned on Sept. 19 after reportedly telling DOJ officials he didn't have sufficient evidence to bring charges against Comey and James.

Trump had nominated Siebert for the full-term role after receiving blue-slip approval from the two Democratic Virginia senators. Five days after that post, Comey was indicted for allegedly making false statements to Congress in 2020 about his handling of the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election and obstructing congressional proceedings. Comey has maintained his innocence.

The indictment was signed by Trump's new pick for U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Lindsey Halligan, a former insurance lawyer with no prosecutorial experience who most recently was a White House aide and personal attorney for Trump.

Klobuchar asked if the reports that the career prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia said the evidence wasn't enough evidence to bring the criminal charges against Comey are true.

"I am not going to discuss pending cases, because Comey was indicted in the Eastern District of Virginia by, I may point out, one of the most liberal grand juries in the country," Bondi stated.

Similarly, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., asked Bondi if she had any conversations with Trump about the Comey prosecution, which Bondi declined to answer.

Blumenthal then put up a photo of Bondi, Trump and others at a dinner table the night before Comey's indictment dropped. Bondi said a lot of other people were at the dinner, and once again deflected when asked if Comey came up.

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told reporters after the hearing that the Comey indictment is a "terrible circumstance that just belies [Bondi's] claim that weaponization is gone."

In another matter, Blumenthal asked Bondi about Hewlett Packard Enterprise's $14 billion purchase of Juniper Networks in June.

The deal has come under scrutiny from Democratic senators and state attorneys general over allegations the merger was pushed through by top DOJ officials over the objections of the departments Antitrust Division. Shortly after the merger was greenlighted, the DOJ ousted two top antitrust officials in July, citing insubordination.

Roger P. Alford, the former second-in-command at the Antitrust Division and one of the two fired, said in late August that he hoped a judge would block the HPE merger, taking aim at top DOJ officials who he said "perverted justice and acted inconsistent with the rule of law" in how the deal was reached.

Bondi would not answer Blumenthal's questions on if she authorized the settlement and whether Gail Slater, assistant attorney general for the Antitrust Division, objected. Bondi said this is still a pending matter, but added that she has "full faith" in Slater.