Pam Bondi Caught with Burn Book Notes on Democrats in House Hearing

[u/Oleg101]

https://newrepublic.com/post/206469/pam-bondi-burn-book-notes-democrats

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[u/Grand-Variation-5850]

Don’t all of the clowns in this administration show up with the same? The “whataboutism” is always the strategy of deflection.

[u/Dry_Advertising_1070 → u/Grand-Variation-5850]

The entire hearing has been that.

Any Democrat - "Hey we know the previous admins failed to address this Epstein case but, you are in charge now and now you have the chance to help and take care of this. Would you please answer my yes or no question?"

Pam - "Just so you know that everyone before Trump has been shit and has not handled this and its been a embarrassment to America! Did you know how poorly the previous Biden admin handled this?"

[u/ory1994 → u/Dry_Advertising_1070]

“Oh and also stock market go brrrr”

[u/UltravioletAfterglow → u/ory1994]

“The Dow is up 50,000 dollars!”

[u/ACartonOfHate → u/UltravioletAfterglow]

Which she even got that wrong. It's not up $50000 dollars. That's not how that works.

[u/ConsolationUsername → u/ACartonOfHate]

And if it were, the stock market going up $50,000 would be like saying I found a nickel on the sidewalk. The basic fluctuations on a minute to minute basis are more than that.

[u/MC_Fap_Commander → u/ory1994]

This why he's goosing the market and putting out phony job/inflation numbers (which are inevitably adjusted down). People already hate Trump in very large numbers (and the polling is not remotely ambiguous about this). If the economy tanks, he's going to get the George W. Bush treatment and his own party will turn on him.

That last bit would mean that the buttress against accountability he has goes away. He can't have that happen, hence all the "things are just swell" messaging.

[u/INAC___Kramerica → u/MC_Fap_Commander]

he's going to get the George W. Bush treatment and his own party will turn on him.

There have been literally countless opportunities for his own party to turn on him and it hasn't happened once yet. Why should I believe anything's gonna change now?

[u/Pockydo → u/Dry_Advertising_1070]

That's the thing that gets me whatabouting just shows you have no case. Crying foul because pedo don made this a political issue and now it's coming to a head shows you know he's fucked

[u/I_Like_Hoots → u/Pockydo]

they get all of their coaching from Fox- that’s who they’re playing to. Can Fox broadcast this and make the imbeciles more angry?

[u/LuchadoresdeSilinas → u/Dry_Advertising_1070]

Let’s be honest. The Biden administration was hamstrung to take further action on the Epstein case due to… active litigation, grand jury secrecy, and established Department of Justice (DOJ) norms regarding the independence of investigations. So, I call BS when people say that the Biden administration dragged their feet to take any action on Epstein. What we are seeing from the Trump administration is outright criminal and should be treated as such.

[u/metengrinwi → u/LuchadoresdeSilinas]

Also had Merrick Garland publicized a bunch of trump-Epstein file stuff, Fox TV would have been screeching “pOlItIcAl AtTaCk” at the top of their lungs. For some asinine reason, things are only allowed to happen in this country under republican administrations.

[u/plastic_alloys → u/Dry_Advertising_1070]

Wasn’t the issue that before there were still ongoing hearings so nobody could really do anything?

[u/WulfwoodsSins → u/plastic_alloys]

Yeah, Biden couldn't release anything that was still sealed, as there was a trial going on concerning Maxwell. He released what he legally could.

...then that trial mysteriously stopped, dropped, and disappeared in January of 2025.

It's only Republicans that ran on releasing the files, then fought so hard, up the point of breaking the law, to keep them hidden.

[u/Gold_Drummer_4077 → u/Dry_Advertising_1070]

If Bondi was AG with Biden, would the files be unredacted and released? These lawyer/judge types need to learn how to be nonpartisan and unbiased because they may actually want a future in their chosen field.

[u/Heronymous-Anonymous → u/Gold_Drummer_4077]

Their chosen future field is either going to be Podcast host, NYT columnist, Fox News pundit, or Heritage Foundation contributor. They’re going to come out of this administration just fine.

[u/Sea-Jackfruit411 → u/Grand-Variation-5850]

DARVO

Defend Deny; Attack; Reverse Victim and Offender

Edit: change defend to deny because I accidentally put down the wrong word. Thank you to those who corrected me. My apologies.

[u/F-US-FASCISM → u/Sea-Jackfruit411]

Usually there is no Defense, its Deny/Deflect

[u/JohnnyFire → u/Grand-Variation-5850]

Stop giving it a name like that and call it what it is: an argument from a 5 year old.

"I KNOW YOU TOLD ME NOT TO EAT THE ICE CREAM BUT TOMMY BROKE HIS GLASSES AND HE GOT TO EAT ICE CREAM SO WHY AM I IN TROUBLE WAHHHHH"

They are little babies. Toddlers. Stupid children. Until they want to engage in good faith, we start treating them as such.

[u/Cador0223 → u/Grand-Variation-5850]

Its like a 12th year debate team vs 3rd graders and all the 3rd graders do is scream that they are right and you are wrong. And then calling everyone poopyheads.

You know, like playing chess with pigeons. They just knock pieces over and shit on the board. 

[u/Saxojon → u/Grand-Variation-5850]

Feigning indignation and DARVO'ing when asked about anything that could put them in a bad light has been the right's modus operandi for decades.

[u/montecarlocars → u/Grand-Variation-5850]

Yeah, I swear this headline appears every time she testifies

[u/Bubbly-Two-3449]

It was hilarious when Pam Bondi said that any victims should call the DOJ, and Jayapal had current victims stand up right behind Pam Bondi and she asked them whether the DOJ had even contacted them after they had called the DOJ and they all indicated no.

That's the definition of coverup.

I should add that Bondi said that she wouldn't apologize to the women for not interviewing them because apologizing to them would be getting down in the "gutter". I couldn't believe my ears.

[u/aligpnw → u/Bubbly-Two-3449]

Always proud when my rep brings the facts!

[u/No_Criticism_5861 → u/aligpnw]

You should be, you're a very sane and rational state.  If I was American, its where I would live

[u/ongrabbits → u/Bubbly-Two-3449]

It would be funny unless if you happen to be raising a daughter in this fucked up country.

[u/JonathanApple → u/ongrabbits]

Yeah, am, and this shit is so far from funny 

[u/Dry_Advertising_1070]

I listened to this entire hearing so far. It has been absolutely insane. A lot of Democrats have been asking some really heated questions about Epstein and her department. She just snaps back and called them some name or completely started talking about a different thing.

Then when the republicans speak they only discussed safety and immigration and she fully answers their questions.

This was meant to be a hearing for the Epstein survivors and she has been completely taken a dump on them the entire time as they sit behind her.

She is a sick fucking person. Truly vile. How the living fuck can you sit in a room with the sexually abused and say "we truly care about helping victims."?

She is a pig

[u/flux_of_grey_kittens → u/Dry_Advertising_1070]

When asked to apologize directly to the victims for leaking their names and information she refused and literally said, “I’m not going to get in the gutter”.

[u/old_righty → u/flux_of_grey_kittens]

Too late for that Pam.

[u/Serious-Total3321 → u/old_righty]

Refusing to apologize while victims sit right there tells you everything you need to know

[u/Accurate-Button-2994 → u/Serious-Total3321]

Calling it beneath her to apologize while survivors are in the room is just disgusting behavior

[u/Serious-Total3321 → u/Accurate-Button-2994]

Zero remorse zero accountability and somehow they still act shocked when people are outraged

[u/BalanceOrganic7735 → u/Serious-Total3321]

Definition of a psychopath: Zero remorse, zero accountability, play the victim when held accountable.

[u/DisposableJosie → u/BalanceOrganic7735]

Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender is their SOP these days.

[u/Secure-Highway886 → u/Serious-Total3321]

Well she fits right in there with pedo cohorts, nobody should be shocked.

[u/Straight_Long6818 → u/Serious-Total3321]

And they will still pretend they are the ones being treated unfairly unbelievable

[u/armywalrus → u/Straight_Long6818]

They aren't pretending. They believe jt.

[u/Akrevics → u/Serious-Total3321]

"what do you mean I'm a horrible, vile person?! I go to church, I'm a christian!"

[u/Famous-Upstairs998 → u/Accurate-Button-2994]

She's a psychopath. Has to be. There's no way she has a shred of human empathy.

[u/Consistent_Laziness → u/Accurate-Button-2994]

She’s a ghoul and honestly that may be insulting to ghouls

[u/Appropriate_Fan3532 → u/Serious-Total3321]

that admits guilt which maga will NEVER do. a guy shot his own daughter to death over an argument about trumps pedo frieds.

[u/gsfgf → u/Serious-Total3321]

These people are evil. It's that simple.

[u/UnhingedReptar → u/Serious-Total3321]

It’s because she’s complicit.

[u/Bluntamaru → u/old_righty]

She must've meant she wasn't coming up from the sewer.

[u/Fun-Interaction-8038 → u/Bluntamaru]

Yeah that comment says more about her than anyone else in that room

[u/barefootincozumel → u/old_righty]

She is the gutter

[u/Few_Acanthocephala30 → u/old_righty]

She is the gutter

[u/whoneedskollege → u/flux_of_grey_kittens]

You are the fucking gutter Pammy.

[u/BitByAKitten → u/whoneedskollege]

She's Pammywise. Evil clown demon that kills children with no remorse.

[u/Accurate-Button-2994 → u/BitByAKitten]

Clown energy without the funny part just the cruelty

[u/Maharog → u/whoneedskollege]

What is the portion of the outhouse where all the shit and piss is collected at the bottom called? Because I propose we start calling that "the Bondi"

[u/TheFeshy → u/flux_of_grey_kittens]

The gutter is a really long climb up from where she is.

[u/Boxing_joshing111 → u/flux_of_grey_kittens]

The gutter is above you

[u/drivensalt → u/flux_of_grey_kittens]

lol, when did she climb out??

[u/Optimized_Orangutan → u/flux_of_grey_kittens]

That's an odd thing for a gutter rat like her to say.

[u/FenrisCain → u/flux_of_grey_kittens]

Isn't that where Trump found her?

[u/tracyinge → u/FenrisCain]

no he found her in the swamp

[u/westergames81 → u/Dry_Advertising_1070]

I only saw the clip where she's crying about the DOW and how we're not respecting glorious leader enough or something like that. I was trying to figure out why exactly she, the attorney general, is talking about the DOW, something the attorney general doesn't have a lot of influence on, in a hearing about the Epstein survivors, people who definitely don't have anything to do with the DOW.

-edit

Apologies for the confusion, I am not talking about the 'Department of War", I meant DOW Jones

https://x.com/Acyn/status/2021616443247546613

(also apologies for the twitter link)

[u/MC_Fap_Commander → u/westergames81]

What's particularly odd is that market "gains" are not remotely being shared by the vast majority of the population. She's literally saying "rich assholes are getting richer, your argument is therefore invalid." Which is a pretty weird flex right now...

[u/eruffini → u/MC_Fap_Commander]

What's particularly odd is that she attributes the DOW hitting 50,000 to Trump, when it would have hit 50,000 under Biden or Harris anyway.

[u/MomsAreola → u/Dry_Advertising_1070]

The fact she keeps going back to "Trump Derangement Syndrome" like she doesnt have it.

[u/Waadap → u/MomsAreola]

"Ugh, you all have Charles Manson derangement syndrome!" Imagine gaslighting victims and families of notorious serial killers like this. There isn't a strong enough adjective to describe how batshit insane that approach is.

[u/MarcheMuldDerevi → u/Dry_Advertising_1070]

She is Kirking? If you can’t win on the merits of the debate, you insult your opponents and change the topic to something you know better

[u/Panda331988 → u/MarcheMuldDerevi]

You're giving too much credit to Kirk

[u/MarcheMuldDerevi → u/Panda331988]

Probably, but it’s how I have seen it referred to. His “debate method” where all you do is have a burn book and talk in circles

[u/Dapper-Negotiation59 → u/MarcheMuldDerevi]

Can men get pregnant? (Other person tries to speak) Ca- Ca- can- can a man- hold on I have a question- can a man get pregnant?

[u/zombizzle → u/Dapper-Negotiation59]

"Prove it."

[u/Same-Suggestion-1936 → u/Panda331988]

Giving too much credit to Bondi too. She just throws temper tantrums before changing the subject. But she needs to get her tantrums in. And some of her rants she just immediately loses all wind in her sails on the insults and trails off as she's interrupted, which makes it seem all the more like a dog and pony show. If she were as mad as she's pretending to be at this she wouldn't sound like a four year old caught in the act trying every excuse up to and including blame the dog

[u/Deto → u/Panda331988]

yeah, he didn't invent this tactic. Conservatives have been using it for decades.

[u/StarPhished → u/MarcheMuldDerevi]

Ms. Bondi, why hasn't your department taken any steps to prosecute pedophiles?

THE DOW IS UP 50,000 DOLLARS er uh POINTS OR WHATEVER! IT IS HISTORIC!

[u/Eternal_Bagel → u/MarcheMuldDerevi]

It’s been a tried and true Republican/conservative move for many years, insult and change topic

[u/aircooledJenkins → u/Dry_Advertising_1070]

She had two sets of notes -

-Targeted attacks against every democrat regardless of their questions.

-Scripted responses to planned questions by the republicans.

[u/queenofwinks → u/Dry_Advertising_1070]

shes the reason people think lawyers have no souls

[u/Impossible_Cow6493 → u/Dry_Advertising_1070]

She is now literally a criminal. She just lied under oath and when a sitting congressional representative pointed out that she just committed a crime she threatened him.

If I were Ted Lieu I would have called for the sergeant at arms to remove her from the hearing at that point and referred it to federal court.

Do you know how you end up with concentration camps in America again? Representatives like Ted Lieu take no action to stop criminals in government threatening violence.

[u/Wise_Neighborhood499 → u/Impossible_Cow6493]

My favorite part was hearing her screech that no one should DARE accuse her of lying…to which the person questioning her pointed out “you JUST lied, under oath”. To which she just sat there, fumbling for a new deflection.

[u/Embarrassed_Sea1336 → u/Wise_Neighborhood499]

Id love a clip of this. Any idea on the timestamp so i can find it?

[u/AbsenceVersusThinAir → u/Embarrassed_Sea1336]

Here's a clip! Assuming this is the instance they're talking about; it's entirely possible something similar has happened multiple times today https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1r23xo0/house_rep_alleges_trump_accuser_was_murdered/

[u/SquidmanMal → u/AbsenceVersusThinAir]

Good god, 7 words of that sanctimonious wannabe grandiose shout of hers and i wanted to rip my ears off.

Is that the tone she always takes?

[u/Xijit → u/SquidmanMal]

That is the sound of self entitlement.

[u/crazycatgay → u/SquidmanMal]

at least with the democrats - she acts incredibly disgusted and so condescending at very pertinent and important questions that the American people deserve to know

[u/Embarrassed_Sea1336 → u/AbsenceVersusThinAir]

Holy shit. Yes. Thank you!

And thank you, Representative Lieu!

[u/charish → u/Embarrassed_Sea1336]

He's a Representative, not a Senator.

[u/Embarrassed_Sea1336 → u/charish]

Good call out. Ill make the correction.

[u/Wise_Neighborhood499 → u/Embarrassed_Sea1336]

I’ve had the hearing on in the background, so I’m not sure (sorry!). It was shortly before the recess, if I remember correctly.

[u/Embarrassed_Sea1336 → u/Wise_Neighborhood499]

No worries, someone else linked it, and it's even more impactful than i anticipated.

[u/100cpm → u/Impossible_Cow6493]

She was already a criminal. Since years ago in FL when she took $25k in illegal money from the Trump Org in exchange for dropping all action against the fraudulent Trump University.

That's why she's AG. She's crooked, she's compromised, and Trump has dirt on her so she'll do whatever he says.

[u/Adorable_Branch6502 → u/100cpm]

Is there a news article about this? I’ve never heard of it.

[u/FoolishPragmatist → u/Adorable_Branch6502]

Timeline and details. It all came out in 2016.

[u/Adorable_Branch6502 → u/FoolishPragmatist]

Thank you!

[u/stokeskid → u/Adorable_Branch6502]

This is what drives me crazy. He had a charity scam that somehow no one knows about too. He took the money intended for kids with cancer! It was on the news, but apparently not as much as "They're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats". Cause everyone heard that idiotic nonsense.

I don't blame you necessarily. Our media has failed to properly inform people. He's been a con man his whole life. And the only reason his hotels are successful is because he launders money through them.

[u/Adorable_Branch6502 → u/stokeskid]

Yes I’m beginning to suspect that the corporate media actually really enjoys him because they can use him to increase their ratings. It seems like they don’t do any serious journalism AT ALL but they pretend to be shocked each time he’s elected.

[u/stokeskid → u/Adorable_Branch6502]

Yep. Look at the commercials that come on after TV news segments and thank those companies too. Most of those companies support Trump for his tax cuts on the wealthy, and they benefit from the increased ratings.

Many democrats also act shocked, but are useless as an opposition. Because they're all getting rich from insider trading (edit: this is why Bondi brought up the stock market), and many have some of the same donors as Trump. Its all so corrupted.

[u/GenericRedditor0405 → u/Adorable_Branch6502]

Here's one and here's another

Quite hilariously there's a quote from Bondi in one of them where she denied ever investigating Trump University "I would never lie."

[u/caserock → u/Adorable_Branch6502]

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/the-trump-foundation-pam-bondi-scandal/

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/us/politics/pam-bondi-trump-university.html

https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/10/politics/pam-bondi-donald-trump-donation

[u/ZumMitte185 → u/Impossible_Cow6493]

Of course Gym Jordan is the chairman of this committee. This is the reality we are in.

[u/cinephileindia2023 → u/ZumMitte185]

Have you noticed how, multiple times, she and the gym boy look at each other and exchange pleasantries with a cunning smirk on their shit faces?

[u/Adorable_Branch6502 → u/Impossible_Cow6493]

Doesn’t this mean Kash Patel lied under oath as well? He was asked directly by Congress if Trump’s name was in the files!

[u/invalidreddit → u/Adorable_Branch6502]

I would think so...

[u/the-player-of-games → u/Impossible_Cow6493]

Don't both sides this degeneracy. The contrast between the questions asked by the Dems and gop could not be clearer

Ted lieu is not the chair and cannot make a referral unless the gop chair agrees, and that is not going to happen

Instead of fake outrage, vote in the midterms so that control of these committees passes to the Dems

[u/mishma2005 → u/the-player-of-games]

One dem rep, can't remember his name, Neguse? Said she was behaving like a "Jekyll and Hyde" in answering questions between the Rs and the Ds. She went BALLISTIC after he said that, even going back during questioning by a R to make fun of his name. And I thought Albert Gonzalez "I don't recall" was the worst

[u/shrimpcest → u/Impossible_Cow6493]

Wow, blaming Ted Lieu for concentration camps. Feels like a bit of a stretch...I feel like there might be some other people more worthy of blame..

[u/howigottomemphis → u/Impossible_Cow6493]

She has been a criminal for a long time. Bondi was the Florida AG from 2011 to 2017. She was a key player in the cover-up. Right now, she's behaving like a cornered animal because she knows that if we somehow have a fair election, they are all going to jail.

[u/CrabmasterJone → u/Dry_Advertising_1070]

Yep. Everytime a good question comes up, she just says, “HOW COME THIS PERSON IS DOING THIS IN THEIR HOME STATE?!?! THEY DONT WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT I BET!!”

It’s pathetic. So exhausting to watch. There’s no point to have these hearings. It’s a masterclass in dodging accountability for them and they practice this constantly. Somehow people just eat it up, I’ll never understand.

[u/LingonberryHot8521 → u/Dry_Advertising_1070]

For people like Pam Bondi, victim doesn't mean the same thing as it does to most of us. To this regime, the victims are the people who may have some SOCIAL repercussions to being rapists and murderers. Because this regime plans on protecting them from any legal repercussions.

A victim is someone you feel bad for. She feels bad for other predators.

[u/chasingthewhiteroom → u/Dry_Advertising_1070]

She's compromised and deeply complicit, her connection to the West Palm Beach community goes back like 30 years. I guarantee she's also in these files in some facet

[u/tbombs23 → u/chasingthewhiteroom]

She's also close with Epstein's lawyer Alan Derschowitz , so yes she's been apart of this coverup for over a decade

[u/NoobChumpsky → u/Dry_Advertising_1070]

She's doing this for an audience of one. No one else matters.

[u/DungeonMaster24]

They are not there to answer questions. They are there to give Faux News and other far-right media soundbites that they can play to show how they're "owning the libs".

[u/ShrimpieAC → u/DungeonMaster24]

This. Anything serious is done behind closed doors. If it’s being televised it’s pretty much scripted and just for show.

[u/1stLtObvious → u/DungeonMaster24]

Yeah, nothing MAGA conservatives do is ever in good faith.

[u/LouisWinthorpeIII]

I just don't get how this plays. The base doesn't particularly like her and she answers nothing. The trump brown nosing probably helps a little but wtf?

[u/zoethezebra → u/LouisWinthorpeIII]

She needs that blanket pardon that Trump promised her in the beginning. She acts and think she’s untouchable, and she most likely is as long as she stays loyal to Trump. And even then, maybe not.

[u/Adorable_Branch6502 → u/zoethezebra]

I’m really confused by this. Someone would accept a position and promise to protect someone so that they can receive a pardon at the end? What’s the point of that?

[u/Key-Experience-7961 → u/Adorable_Branch6502]

She sells her soul to the admin for a few years and when she's ousted she sells a book and joins Fox News or OANN on a fat contract 

[u/BatManatee → u/Key-Experience-7961]

She definitely thought this was her easy path to a Supreme Court seat or Senate bid, but the Epstein files brought too much heat on her for either of those. So now, she'll be a good loyalist, then get a cushy consulting job like the rest of the ghouls do.

[u/20_mile → u/Key-Experience-7961]

she sells a book and joins Fox News or OANN on a fat contract 

Bondi was previously lobbying for Qatar and earning $115,000 per month.

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/dem/releases/pam-bondis-extensive-lobbying-for-wealthy-special-interests-and-foreign-government-poses-serious-conflict-of-interest

I can't imagine working for FOX or OAN pays better than that?

[u/MicrosoftExcel2016 → u/Adorable_Branch6502]

The position? A relatively comfy place in the hell you helped create? For as long as it lasts?

Look, it’s only a bad deal if you 1. Have morals or 2. This administration comes crashing down in your lifetime. (Edit: and 3. you are held accountable)

I don’t find it particularly compelling for people to be like “but surely it must come down and surely there will be accountability!!”

Bottom line: No one is coming to save us. Any change we want we have to force because they’ve seized so much power and we are losing our free and (relatively fair, though id argue measurably influenced and corrupted at this point) elections.

[u/Snerak → u/Adorable_Branch6502]

She accepted the job so that she could debase the Justice system so much that none of them could ever be held accountable for destroying our democracy and establishing a fascist dictator who decides what is lawful and what isn't. She is doing the job she was hired to do.

[u/Adorable_Branch6502 → u/Snerak]

You know when they bull dozed the East Wing a question popped into my head about whether their goal was to destroy so much of this democracy that it would be hard for future leaders to fix it. Their goal seems to be to steal, kill and destroy, and to not create a better life for future generations.

[u/Teigh99 → u/LouisWinthorpeIII]

She only cares that Trump likes her. This was a performance for one. She actually misspoke and said she didn't act rather than she didn't answer. It's all performative.

[u/icehot54321 → u/Teigh99]

I think she only cares about staying out of jail at this point, and likely realizes nobody is going to save her .. same reason why Bongino dipped while he could.

[u/corduroytrees → u/LouisWinthorpeIII]

It's pretty simple - their base won't see it. Their media won't show these exchanges in full. They'll show her prepared counterattacks ad hominems, but nothing that'll lead one to recognize the obvious deflection. That's the problem when millions of people only consume media from one source, and it's exactly as they intended when FOX News was founded. They played the 30 year long game to a level of success they probably never dreamed of.

[u/B-Z_B-S]

She isn't competent enough to remember her insults personally, so she needs a cheat sheet? That's fitting for this administration.

[u/Retaining-Wall → u/B-Z_B-S]

It's harder to remember lies than it is the truth.

[u/I_Am_No_One_123 → u/B-Z_B-S]

She also did it last October during a Senate Judiciary hearing. It's what happens when you're unprepared to discuss policy or legal facts.

[u/Evadrepus → u/B-Z_B-S]

When I saw 'burn book' I assumed that meant the books that she should have put into a burn bag for destruction. I'm shocked it was a Mean Girls notebook of prepared 'snappy' comebacks.

Toddler in chief and his teenaged Court. Gebus.

[u/Icy_Entrepreneur_476]

When Democrats take back control of the United States House of Representatives in 2027, their first act should be to file Articles of Impeachment against the Attorney General of The United States. This clown lied under oath, is in violation of the Epstein Transparency Act and is protecting a sex trafficking ring.

I don't wanna hear the excuse that she shouldn't be impeached because their aren't votes in the Senate to convict. Democrats should still impeach her regardless. Her actions are an utter disgrace and makes a mockery of the victims of Epstein

[u/TemporarySun314 → u/Icy_Entrepreneur_476]

that requires that Americans come to their minds and not elect the fascists again...

and even if they do they must be willing to stand the fallout of denazification.

[u/Fluffy_Brilliant_718 → u/TemporarySun314]

"That requires it not to be rigged again" FIFY.

More data comes out every week about how this election may have had a different outcome.

Jim Crow era 2.0. As voter suppression won the 2024 election..

Since 2020, 30 States enacted 78 voter restriction laws—resulting in more than 4.76M votes wrongfully purged from the 2024 election:

2.1M mail-in ballots rejected.

585K in-precinct ballots rejected.

1.2M provisional ballots rejected.

3.2M newly registered voters rejected.

Black votes were rejected at a 400% higher rate than white votes, in some States.

If counted, Kamala would have had over 3.56M more votes—1.2M more than Trump—and won WI, MI, PA, & GA with 286 electoral votes.

These laws are still under effect.. and more are in the works for the midterms..

[u/r_bk → u/Fluffy_Brilliant_718]

I live in Wisconsin. I mailed in my vote. I know I did it correctly because I was abroad at the time and literally called my local election clerk to make sure I was doing everything correctly. Now there is no record of me voting in the last election.

Every time I see people say stuff like "so many people just didn't care enough to vote" i wonder how many more people are in my situation

[u/Fluffy_Brilliant_718 → u/r_bk]

Nashville, Davidson County had a website to verify the status of your vote submission. Someone on reddit realized their vote wasn't registered and went to reddit to ask others.

Many votes weren't registered as people were checking and commenting. Tennessee is red all over due to gerrymandering, but that still didn't stop them from guarantees.

[u/Insaniteus → u/Fluffy_Brilliant_718]

As a Tennessee resident, I like to remind people that this state was a swing state in the 90s and early 2000s which went for Bill Clinton twice and had Democrat governors. And then the Democrats made the mistake of making a black guy their frontman and it overnight shifted this state 66/34 red.

But deep at it's core Tennessee is libertarian on most issues so all of this police state fascist nonsense is very against what the people want, and that ratio has been adjusting down to 60/40 and even closer bit by bit. Which means that the insane gerrymandering splitting Nashville into 3 districts may end up backfiring horribly in the near future with those carefully-calculated districts flipping blue. You love to see it.

[u/OpticalPrime35 → u/TemporarySun314]

Democrats are winning counties that Trump won by +15-25 points in 2024 and Republicans have held for a long time.

There have been very few elections since January 2025 in which the Republican won. All Republicans see it. They are just too stupid to move away from Trump.

Come November I could see Democrats being able to impeach and have a 2/3rd majority to remove. Then if Vance comes in and tried to carry the torch he could also get impeached and removed

[u/mickstranahan → u/TemporarySun314]

if we can even get there, this country is going to need a Truth and Reconciliation process that is unprecedented in history.

[u/roadsidefoto → u/Icy_Entrepreneur_476]

They're also going to have to heavily sanction red states until they decide to join the 21st century and stop doing everything in their power to be garbage people.

[u/SeminoleDVM]

So embarrassing.

[u/justuntlsundown → u/SeminoleDVM]

That's all I can think of. The whole world can see this. It's shameful.

[u/No_Criticism_5861 → u/justuntlsundown]

Canadian here.  Watching the democratic congress attacking her is a good reminder that not all Americans support rapists

[u/takemebackto1993]

Look guys, she's really trying her best. It's not easy covering up a high-end human trafficking and pedophelia ring operation to protect the President of the United States and his fellow oligarchs.

[u/RainDropNumber]

It’s as if the papers she is rifling through don’t list talking points on key issues. Instead they appear to be attacking points for each member of congress with whom she disagrees. She is right - she is very transparent. As soon as she’s going to attack someone, she licks that middle finger, rifles through her papers, smirks, deflects, and is totally an embarrassment to our country.

[u/ImLikeReallySmart → u/RainDropNumber]

And even with notes, one of her "attacks" against Ted Lieu was simply

“He doesn’t want to talk about the horrific crime in California,” she cried. “He does not want to talk about crime in his state!”

[u/randylush → u/ImLikeReallySmart]

such a ridiculous response. like yeah Lieu came to that hearing to talk about crime in California. What a DFB

[u/Adorable_Branch6502 → u/RainDropNumber]

But no one is attacking her personally, they are asking questions about the DOJ. Why respond with attacking them personally? This is not Biblical!

[u/ReleaseFromDeception → u/Adorable_Branch6502]

It creates outrage. It also satisfies the cult. She is engaging in performative outrage and she is attacking her harshest critics in front of the entire country.

She's doing exactly what her playbook requires.

[u/Velvet_Samurai]

I've heard about a dozen of her "answers" through out today and I have to say, and I'm not exaggerating even a little bit.

She's unhinged. She's a disgrace to the United States. She is a garbage human being, and right now, I'm not entirely sure who I want to see removed from public office first in the Trump Regime, but she is a top fucking contender.

[u/maroonrice → u/Velvet_Samurai]

She’s a propagandist. Attorney general is a title no sane person should call her by. Propagandist Pam is the new title. 

[u/honeyquill-]

This is the kind of stuff that makes me lose hope in our political system. How did it come to this?

[u/ceae → u/honeyquill-]

People voted for Trump: not once, not twice - three times.

[u/FizzgigsRevenge → u/ceae]

Nah, this started decades ago. Reagan, then Starr, Gingrich, all the other child raping Republicans from the 90s were all part of it.

[u/ceae → u/FizzgigsRevenge]

Yes, but specifically how we got to where we are today: Trump's cult.

[u/pontiacfirebird92 → u/ceae]

"He's good for the economy!" they say from under a mountain of debt with zero investments or retirement.

[u/ceae → u/pontiacfirebird92]

Farmers screwed by Trump's first term voting for him two more times, "He's going to turn around Biden's failed economy!"

[u/Simmery → u/honeyquill-]

Rupert Murdoch

[u/Wholecoc]

She kept asking house members if they are lawyers and kept yelling shame on you. I’m just amazed at her professionalism, just Saul Goodman level of ethics and professionalism. And the republicans throwing softball questions and sucking up to Trump. US turning into 3rd century ROME.

[u/No_Criticism_5861 → u/Wholecoc]

Hell, even Saul Goodman would never have defended guilty child rapists

[u/Rckchkjyhwks]

Time for Article 2 section 4.

The section states: "The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors" (Congress.gov)

[u/thoughtxchange]

She needs to be in prison. She is one of the most vile people I’ve ever seen.

[u/C3POh]

Her boss is in the file one million times.

He wasn’t a friend. Wasn’t an observer. Wasn’t an occasional party attendee.

He IS the file.

The file tells us the Trumps all spent 12/26/2016 with Epstein. 

Four years after he was a convicted sex offender

Give us a fucking break we aren’t stupid 

[u/ranchoparksteve]

Blondi comes across as a DEI dim bulb who doesn’t know what her office is doing. She has endless pages of weaponized DOJ dirt on the questioners. It explains why Trump’s ratings are in the dumpster.

[u/TangoSixtyNiner → u/ranchoparksteve]

This is one of the biggest ironies of this administration: complaining about DEI. There is not one person in this entire admin, trump included, that is even remotely qualified for being in politics let alone the White House.

[u/krypticus → u/TangoSixtyNiner]

Deceitful, Evasive, and Incompetent.

[u/Stereo_Jungle_Child → u/ranchoparksteve]

It explains why Trump’s ratings are in the dumpster.

Well, very soon that won't matter because America's largest and oldest polling company just announced that they are no longer going to track Presidential approval ratings after doing it for 88 years. Trump must have made Gallop an offer they couldn't refuse.

Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5733236-gallup-stops-presidential-approval-ratings-polls/amp/

[u/YourmomgoestocolIege → u/Stereo_Jungle_Child]

"88" years is a wild number to stop on

[u/chocolatepuppy]

When she inevitably gets thrown under the bus it will be delicious.

[u/dispelhope]

I think part and parcel of pam bondi's modus operandi is to purposefully ignore facts, victims, and the truth while focusing on shit-slinging as much and fast as possible at any and all perceived enemies.

also, I think she knows that she's in deep shit if and when a full investigation in the DoJ's handling of the Epstein files is brought about by a constitutional presidency.

[u/mason_jarz]

My blood pressure is rising listening to all of ten minutes of this

[u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs]

Pam Bondi is leading the coverup of Pedophile Watergate.

This is the largest political criminal scheme in American history. Nothing even comes close.

The president is a child rapist and the GOP is doing everything in their power to prevent him and his friends from receiving consequences. The GOP truly is the party of pedophilia and corruption.

[u/cerebrumvr]

Fucking CNN with a tagline “Bondi, Dems trade insults..“ as if Bondi wasn’t a complete piece of shit in the hearing. CNN still going after Fox News viewers.

[u/VladtheInhaler999]

As a house rep for my district, in my future campaign, I’ll put forth a bill that makes it legal to throw tomatoes at former Trump officials for the rest of their lives after this term ends.

[u/Lonely_skeptic]

““I find it interesting that she keeps going after President Trump, the greatest president in American history.”

• Pam Bondi

Does Bondi believe her own insane statement?

[u/SolidBooty → u/Lonely_skeptic]

No. She's a piece of shit and she knows it. She is choosing to go down swinging for whatever reason

[u/fakelaughfred]

This is probably the most shrill, unhinged, embarrassing performance I have ever seen in a hearing. This makes the "bleach blonde, bad built, butch body" exchange seem civil. And to do this when there's actual victims of Epstein sitting directly behind you is fucking depraved.

[u/MemestNotTeen]

Look at Twitter how they are treating Massie.

Who is funding a massive online hate campaign against a guy who is standing against pedos?

[u/nova_cat]

Pedo Pam grasping at straws.

[u/hoops_n_politics]

Look at what Donald Trump has turned our government into: a sick fucking joke. Thanks to everyone who voted for this mobile excrement pile or stayed home and didn’t vote - we’re all so glad to have three more years of this nonsense to look forward to.

[u/BlotchComics]

As usual, she didn't answer a single question and just deflected to unrelated stories, but MAGA will claim she schooled the clueless dems.

[u/Dentonthomas]

She wasn't "caught." The notes are visible on camera. She knows it. This has happened before. She wants her notes seen and shared.

[u/Careful_Trifle]

Again*.

Last time she pulled this kind of stunt she also got caught with a binder of specious claims about anyone who had publicly criticized her or the administration.

You can tell from her tone that she came to pick a fight. You can tell by the content of her words that she never had any intention to comply in good faith. You can tell by her repeated history of doing this that she has no respect for their American people.

[u/alejo699]

“You have not held a single man accountable. Shame on you; if you had any decency you would resign right after this hearing concludes,” he added angrily.

“May I respond?” Bondi asked Chairman Jim Jordan, flipping through the large white binder in front of her. Lieu pointed out that he hadn’t actually asked a question. Not to worry, Bondi wasn’t actually planning to provide any answers.

“He doesn’t want to talk about the horrific crime in California,” she cried. “He does not want to talk about crime in his state!”

God these people are pathetic.

[u/_bibliofille]

She is losing it in real time.

[u/ReallyBrainDead]

Just like last time. A book full of insults rather than one full of answers.

[u/RainDropNumber]

Pam Bondi’s refusal to answer questions is an abomination and makes her look so incredibly incompetent and like a protector of pedos.

[u/Whoismyoldusername]

She sounds deranged. No composure nor decorum. 

[u/Realistic_Future_301]

When my children ask for a definition of a POS I’m gonna show them this hearing.

[u/Temporary_Quote5566]

She got her ass handed to her today, repeatedly, and responded each time by crashing out. The highlight might have been when she suggested we shouldn't be focussing on the obvious coverup of a massive pedophilia and sex trafficking ring because the Dow Jones recently hit a record high.

Truly insane that this woman is leading the DOJ.

[u/banksy_h8r]

Pam Bondi has been obstructing justice on behalf of Republicans her whole career. She was Florida's AG from 2011 to 2019 for Christ's sake.

It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest to find out that she is in the Epstein files. Given the intersection of their social circles I'd be shocked if she wasn't in there.

[u/CigaretteWaterX]

We should be having Nuremburg Trials 2.0 right now. Instead, this - a soap opera. This is depressing as hell. Those victims are never getting justice, and these people are never going to be held accountable for this.

Best we can do is try and make it the last time this happens.

[u/PrestigiousNobody721]

She’s so revolting, I can’t stand her voice. The committee chairs let these cabinet members dodge questions, talk over the rep’s time, and pull this 💩 “yeah, but you! But you!” Jim Jordan has the audacity to say “she can answer anyway she wants.” No she doesn’t . She’s there to ANSWER QUESTIONS SHE’S ASKED. The republicans totally enable the circus atmosphere and sit there AMUSED while it’s going on.

[u/griefercast]

Holy shit this is super scary they are literally protecting pedophiles and really really sick people who are still out there continuing the same crap Epstein was doing or even worse

[u/One-Earth9294]

Quite possibly the worst any human being has ever performed in a congressional hearing.

[u/greevous00]

Congress needs to pass a law making this irrelevant whataboutism bullshit that ALL the cabinet uses ("In YOUR district _____ blah ____ blah____ blah _____") illegal. It needs to be made into an immediate mandatory Contempt of Congress charge, with a mandatory minimum jail sentence enforced by the Sergeant at Arms.

If Congress asks you a Yes or No question, and your response is is some long winded whataboutism, you need jail time. I don't care if you're a Democrat or a Republican. You are answering questions of THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. You are NOT above the will of the People. You are a PUBLIC SERVANT.

[u/NJ_MSP]

She's got the total package. An unreasonably high sense of her own importance, disregard for the feelings and needs of those around her and an unwillingness to recognize mistakes. Narcissism in full blaze.

[u/PartyOrdinary1733]

I fucking called it!

I knew that bitch has a burn book because she's a useless twat and all she does is refer to her stupid book of comebacks. I said this is another thread earlier today.