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When Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden had problems with secret papers, important people in Trump’s Justice Department and FBI wanted to investigate and punish them.
But now, these same people, like Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, do not say bad things about Trump’s team. They used Signal to talk about military plans, and a journalist saw it by mistake.
The Trump team said they did not talk about secret information in the messages about bombing rebels in Yemen. But CNN said the information was secret when they sent it.
Bondi, who is now the top law officer, defended the people in the Signal chat. She said it was not likely they would be investigated. Before, Bondi said Clinton and her aide Huma Abedin should be charged for secret emails found on her ex-husband's computer.
“This is about our country’s safety,” Bondi said in January 2018 on Fox News. “When you have top-secret clearance, you know sending those emails is against the law. No one would not charge her.”
Bondi said the Clinton email case was a clear legal issue. She said, “We live in a nation of laws,” and that Clinton “put our national security at risk.”
On Thursday, Bondi said the Signal chat had “sensitive information, not classified.”
“What we should talk about is that it was a very successful mission,” she told reporters. “If you want to talk about secret information, talk about what was at Hillary Clinton’s home and the secret papers in Joe Biden’s garage.”
A spokesperson for the Department of Justice said Bondi’s comments last week “speak for themselves.”
Patel also wanted strong punishments for leaking secret information.
“A leak of secret information is a federal crime. It can mean over ten years in prison,” Patel said in 2021 about leaks during the Russian investigation. “It’s serious. But no one has been punished for leaking secret information.”
In another interview in September 2024, Patel said it was wrong not to charge Biden for mishandling secret papers.
“They let him go,” he said about Biden, who was looked at for secret papers found at his home in Delaware. “They said it doesn’t matter … they made a new rule to help him.”
Bongino, a former Secret Service agent, often said Democrats and Biden mishandled secret information and used apps like Signal to avoid punishment.
“This was a big injustice,” Bongino said about the decision not to charge Hillary Clinton in 2016. “I know about crimes and investigations. This case was clear.”
“What Jim Comey said yesterday showed that what Mrs. Clinton did could have led to her being convicted,” he said.
In deleted tweets, Bongino also criticized Abedin and asked if former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe used unsafe ways to handle secret information.
“Huma either knew she was sending secret emails and broke the law, or she didn’t know it was wrong and should not have access to the Clinton team,” he said in a deleted tweet from late 2017.
In a February 2018 tweet, Bongino wrote, “Was Andy McCabe using secure ways to send/receive secret information? Someone should check.” McCabe was part of the FBI investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Patel and Bongino have not said bad things about the people in the Signal chat. The FBI did not comment to CNN.
Ed Martin, now the acting US Attorney for Washington, has been strict about handling secret papers.
“When he took them, he broke the law,” Martin said on his radio show in 2023 about Biden’s secret papers.
In a 2018 tweet, Martin said that “almost anyone” who leaked secret information would “go to jail.” In 2024, he asked, “Was it not a crime for a vice president to take secret papers from the White House and keep them in his garage? If it’s not, it should be.”
Martin has not said if the Signal chat should be investigated.
A spokesperson for the US Attorney’s Office for Washington did not comment to CNN.
