Judicial nominee shuts down 'wildly inaccurate' claims that he's Trump's 'henchman'

Emil Bove forcefully rejected criticisms that he was President Donald Trump's "henchman" or "enforcer" during a Senate hearing Wednesday focused on his nomination by Trump to serve as a federal judge.

Bove, a top Department of Justice (DOJ) official vying to fill a lifetime role on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, said media reports painted a "wildly inaccurate caricature" about him.

"I am not anybody’s henchman. I’m not an enforcer," Bove said, referring to descriptors used in headlines about him.