Ex-Jack Smith deputy rebukes Bondi after House hearing — and mounts Dem run for Congress

JP Cooney, a former federal prosecutor turned Democratic candidate for the U.S. House in Virginia’s proposed Seventh District, rebuked his former boss, Attorney General Pam Bondi, for telling a House panel on Wednesday his former division engaged in “weaponization.”

“I can tell you which administration that the weaponization was ended under,” Bondi said in a fiery exchange with Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO) during a House Judiciary Committee hearing.

Cooney, a former top deputy to special...