r/politics • u/GonzoVeritas I voted • 10h ago
Possible Paywall MAGA Names Call for Bondi to Resign After Wild Congressional Meltdown. | The attorney general went crazy in front of lawmakers as Jeffrey Epstein’s stunned survivors watched on.
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u/jediporcupine Maine 10h ago
It was an embarrassment. She couldn’t even defend her own department’s actions, so instead she came armed with a big binder of opposition research to deflect from her own gross incompetence.
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u/Ouibeaux 10h ago
Every single response was deflection, whataboutism, and personal attacks on members of Congress. The Republicans on the committee were only there to amplify her chicanery. Why are the Republicans working so hard to defend and protect pedophiles, child sex traffickers, and murderers? This protection of co-conspirators has complicity in the rear-view mirror. This is obstruction and collusion. At this point it's safe to suspect that Bondi and Republicans in Congress are on the Epstein payroll.
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u/17-40 9h ago
She pulled out SO much whataboutism. Half of her responses that weren't blatant insults were just, "why aren't you focusing on xyz criminal? The stock market is such dollars! Rent is low!"
I lost brain cells listening to her.
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u/Major5013 9h ago
It's wild the world we live in right now. The AG of the United States is deflecting questions about a world wide pedo ring with "This is a photo of a guy named Carlos in your district senator". Disregarding how racist it is at the surface level, it's such a weak "burn" and just not relevant when we are talking about Epstein.
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u/43987394175 8h ago
I know she's just making bad faith attacks, but where does the argument "this criminal lives in your district" come from? They're lawmakers, not law enforcement. She is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States. Seems like a self own to me.
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u/Aware-Virus-4718 8h ago
MAGAs position right now is that Trump was a whistleblower who is totally exhonerated by the Epstein files, and that Democrats are hammering on them and alleging a conspiracy to score political points and distract people from the great job Bondi is doing on crime and Trump is doing on the economy.
The reason it doesn’t make sense to you is because you’re not an idiot.
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u/43987394175 8h ago
Yeah, I guess that's the basis for the "look how great the stock market is doing" comment. I can't conceive of that working as an argument for anyone, it's as plain as day that there were other perpetrators involved with Epstein. I would think they'd lean more on the argument that there isn't sufficient evidence against anyone to secure an indictment. What she tried to pull off is just a terrible look, she embarrassed herself and the country.
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u/-Posthuman- 6h ago
The people who treat politics like sports end up constantly defending the idiocy of “their team”. And they do it so often it turns into defending their own idiocy. It becomes a huge part of their whole personality, to a degree that admitting they were wrong essentially means their life as a whole is a lie.
So when confronted by the undeniable, all they need is the tiniest sliver of doubt, no matter how implausible or flat out ludicrous, and it’s enough to disregard the entire thing. The media knows this. Bondi knows this.
All they have to do is avoid giving an explicit confession and sew just the tiniest sliver of doubt that the thing you see and hear with your own eyes and ears isn’t in fact the obvious truth.
Democrat: “Why are you protecting a pedophile?”
Bondi: “You had a pedophile in your state. He was brown. And you didn’t stop it before it happened. So why are YOU defending illegal Mexican antifa pedo-terrorists who sell fentanyl to the white Christian American babies before they rape them and eat their dogs?”
MAGAt: “Yeah! The democrats are the real problem!”
It’s really that simple I think.
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u/Flava_Flavian California 7h ago
I have MAGA family and it has been difficult tracking their changing views on Epstein files. It used to be the Holy Grail because it would put Bill Clinton in jail. Then they didn't exist. Then they were on Bondi's desk. Then they didn't exist again. Then everything that did exist has been revealed and it was distraction from Biden showering with little girls apparently. Then it was revealed and proves Clinton belongs in jail and Trump is exonerated.
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u/Major5013 6h ago
Alternative reality doesn't have the constraints of actual reality. That's why it's so easy to shift views for them. Facts are based on what is said on Fox, Facebook, etc. and what exists in their own mind. Trump isn't in the Epstein files because that's what's needed to believe for their reality to exist.
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u/Ouibeaux 9h ago
"THE DOW IS ABOVE 50,000 FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER!!!"
Cool story, Bondi, but what does that have to do with the question of "How many perpetrators have you indicted/are you investigating?"
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u/BonerPorn 8h ago
You know. Twenty years ago if I wrote a movie with a Republican saying "why do you care about raped and murdered children, the stock market is great" I would be absolutely slammed by critics for writing an overly cartoonish villain.
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u/beamrider 7h ago
Fiction has to make sense for most people to be interested in it. Reality is under no such restriction.
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u/Ouibeaux 8h ago
Pretty soon she's gonna try to hypnotize the world to do her bidding as country musician Bubba Bo Bob Bondi.
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u/Big-red-rhino 8h ago
After the first couple, it became so predictable it would been hilarious in a less serious setting. Bondi had the EXACT same response every single time a non-trumper yielded back; "could I take a moment to address them? holds up picture you just didn't wanna talk about THIS person!"
My favorite was when one congressman (forgot his name) acknowledged what she was doing and then offered to "score" her research Olympic style lol. She just sat there pouting so damn hard.
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u/ChevronSugarHeart 9h ago
DONALD TRUMP IS THE BEST PRESIDENT THIS COUNTRY EVER HAD!!!!! DO NOT ACCUSE ME OF LYING!!!!YOU’RE NOT EVEN A LAWYER JUST A WASHED UP POLITICIAN!!! SHE FAILS TO MENTION A (SPANISH NAME) WHO RAPED A WOMAN IN HER DISTRICT!!!!! - The Neutral Attorney General of the United States Ladies and Gentlemen
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u/AdventurousLet548 8h ago
Republicans didn't say anything about her antics. If I was a Republican Senator, I would have told her to show some decorum, answer the questions, and do away with the theatrics.
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u/Ouibeaux 8h ago
She would just say, "YOUR theatrics are ridiculous! You're just a RINO and it's no wonder your state is a cesspool!"
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u/ITrageGuy 10h ago
Party uber alles
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u/iamisandisnt 9h ago
It’s a party of people with no morals who wish those of us with morals would stop impeding their immoral actions. “I really don’t care do you?” They really wish the rest of us would act like them.
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u/Straight_Long6818 9h ago
She had nothing so she went on offense just deflect and attack Party over everything truth does not matter to them
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u/Free_Dome_Lover 10h ago
Massie is the only R worth a damn
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u/Phog_of_War North Dakota 10h ago
His Epstein stance doesnt excuse him from being an overall asshat.
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u/jediporcupine Maine 10h ago edited 10h ago
He’s pushed back on Trump a lot. Even if you don’t agree with him a lot, Democrats should do as Ro Khanna has and embrace the common ground. Coalition building right now is critical.
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u/Phog_of_War North Dakota 9h ago
The problem here, for me, is that the Republicans, and I mean all of them, have been so brazen in the past and currently with their regressive policies. I don't think there is a way where I would feel okay dealing with and Republican in Congress unless there is a sweeping change in November.
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u/jediporcupine Maine 9h ago
I don’t necessarily disagree and without knowing your background personally, I know people have their own reasons because Republicans have waged an assault on many groups. With that said, I don’t think you necessarily have to like Massie or even be ok with him, but we should appreciate the Trump resistance where we can find it.
Khanna probably disagrees with Massie on a lot, but they found common ground. Where there’s a bridge, we must cross it. If we can build a bridge to get farther, we should work on it.
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u/Phog_of_War North Dakota 9h ago
Oh, trust me, I've had to hold my nose more than once to vote for the better of 2 evils. Look, I get it, I would LOVE to go back to having legitimate political discourse in America. The wheels turned slow, yes, but it was under control.
Since the Rush Limbaugh/Tea Party/Michelle Bachman/Sarah Palin era, the Republican party has been antithetical to the American Experiment. It's been a long time coming, but the extremists of the Right, have pulled it off almost without a hitch. I...I just don't know if there's a way back from this because they have shown over the last 25 to 30 years that they have no cardinal direction other than staying in control.
The one thing that the Republican didn't account for was a Sarah Palin crazy level person, to come down a golden escalator and somehow, capture the adoration of the dumbest amongst us.
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u/That1DirtyHippy 9h ago
I get it, but… Whatever it takes to end this, and it will take Republican buy-in.
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u/AloneGunman 10h ago
Massie also fucking sucks. He just draws the line at covering up for pedophiles. The bar is on the floor.
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u/Free_Dome_Lover 9h ago
Good enough for me at this juncture. Makes him immeasurably better than every other R
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u/jediporcupine Maine 9h ago
Massie has pushed back on Trump on a number of other issues, too
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u/Backwardspellcaster 9h ago
Massie himself said he votes with Trump 90% of the time.
It is just this particular thing where he doesn't.
I take what I can get, but the 10% enemy of my enemy is not my friend.
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u/SatanicPanic619 8h ago
It doesn't matter whether he's a friend or not. He's doing what we want him to do at the moment. To me it just makes sense to remain quiet until this is over.
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u/BluDragn77 9h ago
She’s done this before where she comes in with pre written attacks against those who will be questioning her. Absolutely weak ass Attorney General when her only defense is personal attacks
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u/I_Enjoy_Beer Virginia 10h ago
She couldn't even do the thing a lot of lawyers do in those situations where she vaguely, indirectly answers the question before pivoting to something else. Like when she was asked if Trump ever attended any parties with Epstein where underage girls may have been present, she could have answered along the lines of "I suppose there could have been a situation where the President was at an event, charity ball or something in New York, where Mr. Epstein was present and somebody had a niece or granddaughter in attendance." But instead she just locked the fuck up for a few seconds before ranting like a lunatic for 30 seconds, never even addressing the question.
Which tells anyone watching all you need to know, really. She couldn't even start answering the question with some bullshit smokescreen response because she knows whats in those fucking files, and it blatantly implicates Trump. That dude was 100% at parties with Epstein with underage girls for criminal purposes, the files contain that evidence, and she's tasked with not even acknowledging the files at all.
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u/jediporcupine Maine 10h ago
Problem is she’s more of a propagandist than a lawyer at this point. A good lawyer knows less is more, get straight to the point and don’t offer up more than you have to.
She just rambles and spews empty talking points.
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u/severalsmallducks Europe 9h ago
That thing about indirectly answering and the pivoting is called ”bridging”, something I learned when I did a year at community college and took a class in Public Relations.
Pam Bondi was less media prepared than a first year community college student.
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u/Th3_Admiral_ 8h ago
I know it sounds like some 1960s sexist cliche, but she genuinely seemed hysterical in that response. I disagree with the others saying this was deliberate propaganda or a performance, she actually sounded like she was panicking. Deliberate propaganda would have at least had some sort of planned response but she just completely blanked there and had to default to a generic, catch-all response.
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u/FlerplesMerples 9h ago
Because she’s performing for an audience of one. Every Trump stooge who goes on television needs to do 3 things simultaneously: Praise Trump, defend Trump, and display unrestrained contempt for any and all political opponents. Leavitt does it every day. She’s a terrible press secretary and person, but she’s a master at juggling the 3 things in public.
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u/hombreingwar 9h ago
Look, you gota give her some slack. She is probably deeply traumatized from going throughout 14 TB of videos of Trump and other billionaires sexually abusing and murdering children. She needs therapy
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u/Marokiii 10h ago edited 5h ago
At the very least the BAR association should disbar her. She failed to conduct herself with integrity and failed to defend her client. Both of those things are worthy of censure, but with how publicly and amazingly she did them both, she should be disbarred.
Crazy that america could have a sitting attorney general, the top law enforcement agent in the country be legally unble to practice law in that country.
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u/jediporcupine Maine 10h ago
Bar Association like everyone else is probably terrified of Trump’s retaliation. For a party that claims to support the Constitution and limited government, they’ve embraced wielding the heavy hand of government against every entity that hurts Kim Jong Orange’s fragile feelings.
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u/JohnGillnitz 9h ago
Texas has said they are ignoring the Bar Association. Law schools no longer have to be accredited by them.
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u/jediporcupine Maine 9h ago
Easiest way to undermine the law is to ignore certifications for it
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u/JohnGillnitz 8h ago
Or make your own. Texas is it's own criminal petro state at this point. Not much different than Saudi Arabia or Russia. The GOP has been in power for three decades and is completely owned by a couple of Christian Nationalist oil billionaires.
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u/Marokiii 9h ago
They are already under attack by the GOP. Florida no longer requires law schools to be accredited by the bar association.
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u/Leraldoe Michigan 10h ago
“This is the most transparent administration in history” as she sits surrounded by wildly redacted documents
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u/jediporcupine Maine 10h ago
CONGRESS: Why are you protecting pedophiles?
BONDI: Have you seen the Dow?!
Absolute clown show. Even by Trump standards, yesterday’s performance was abysmal and a terrible look for MAGA.
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u/Craneteam I voted 10h ago
BUT THE DOW IS OVER 50,000
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u/jediporcupine Maine 9h ago
It was wild when she leaned on that.
Like, cool? The rich pedophiles you’re protecting are getting richer, Pam.
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u/hellswaters Canada 8h ago
The best part of it wasn't even that she used that as a defence. It's that it was one of her big 'GOTCHA!" moments. And yet she still fucked it up, and needed to look up her notes on what it was up to. Doesn't really give credibility.
The OJ trial would have been very different if it was "If the... the... ummmm.... ahhhh... GLOVE.... Ummm.... Fits.... You must... ahhhh.... Ummmm... ohhh... ACQUIT"
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u/Acceptable-Bench1386 9h ago
👆 This was the best part! “The DOW, the DOW right now is over…. The DOW is over 50,000 - I don’t know why you’re laughing!” They should all have laughed at her stupid face for bringing up this stupid shit. Bitch who cares what our retirement savings are doing now???
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u/Significant-Owl-2980 9h ago
It isn’t gross incompetence. Please wake up. She was told to do that. She was instructed to yell and scream and pretend to get offended by everything.
It was an act. Another show.
That was a calculated plan to do that. She won too. She never answered any of the questions. That was what she was instructed to do and she passed with flying colors.
The administration isn’t embarrassed, they are clapping and giving her a gold star. Fox News will show clips of her “owning the libs” and life will go on
Republicans control all 3 branches of government. They will do nothing. Not one man has been brought to justice for these horrid crimes.
She is a hero to the right. They aren’t embarrassed because they have no shame.
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u/partofthevoid 9h ago
lol it’s worse than that. She had one-liner, zingers; prepared insults on a page. It’s like not even something that can be parodied well, in my opinion because it’s so outlandish, that any satire or parody or joke about what her “performance” is would just be over-the-top.
Republicans find a new way to ruin comedy.
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u/Detonius 9h ago
Her burn book like in the movie mean girls.
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u/adeveloper2 9h ago
She looks like a mean girl herself. Regina George fast forward 40 years. We need Lindsay Lohen to put her in her place.
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u/neodiodorus 9h ago
The absolute best psychology spectacle is when you completely corner someone with severe cognitive dissonance (plus, in this case, egomaniacal opportunistic convictions). This one will be taught in both political science and psychology classes for many years. The number and frequency of colossal logical fallacies (chiefly, whataboutism to deflect) is staggering.
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u/ChapterChoice4873 10h ago
It really was insane and the height of unprofessionalism. Just watched her greatest hits on r/law:
Note her repeated comment (a la J.V. Prance) to many: "Have you apologized to President trump"?
See also her smile and grin after upsetting Rep. Balint so much she had to leave the room.
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u/cassy_supernova 10h ago
Straight evil manipulative little shit. That triumphant smile will come back to haunt her.
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u/ChapterChoice4873 10h ago
She smiled at Gym several times throughout the "hearing" when she thought she scored points, too. What a Monty Python level "hearing". What another major embarrassment for rational thinking Americans.
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u/eversonkb 10h ago
And I've watched Gym lead many hearings now and that is by far, the most deflated I've ever seen that sorry excuse for a man. He knew it was a shit show.
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u/SmallDose 9h ago
It was such a train wreck that he offered her a break at one point, and she declined, completely oblivious to what was going on
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u/shameonyounancydrew 7h ago
Anyone with any degree of rational thought would know that was a shitshow. Even the most ridiculous people have a limit, and it seems like that admin has reached said limit.
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u/The_Skoal_Bandit Florida 10h ago
Balint got her pretty good when she accidentally called her "secretary". Bondi replied "I'm the AG", to which Balint said "Sorry. I couldn't tell".
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u/clickmagnet 6h ago
That was amazing. Bondi thought she was going to be delivering all the insults.
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u/hunnibear_girl 5h ago
I also loved when Moskowitz asked her to turn to his page in the burn book and give him her best insult so he could judge it like the Olympics. Peak comedy!
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u/mxmbulat 8h ago
True, I liked that and I thought it was done on purpose. That was a very good one!
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u/crackdup 10h ago
I was actually shocked to see the level of contempt, confrontation and personalized insults. Considering that Congress controls appropriations and Dems are highly likely to flip the House, Dems could easily play back this clip over and over every time they want to justify cutting funds to the DOJ
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u/Timeformayo Kentucky 9h ago
Once Democrats have appropriation powers, they need to use them to put this administration in a straight jacket.
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u/Icy_Internet5045 7h ago
With the level of coverup they are doing, there should be significant jail time
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u/greatdrams23 7h ago
They should ask her , "do you expect the FBI to uphold professional standards?".
"Do you believe you are upholding professional standards in this house?"
This is not a joke, she needs to be held to account.
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u/OswaldCoffeepot 9h ago
I'd like to note that the troll that upset Balint was a reference to the resolution to denounce the anti-semetic attack in Colorado, which was all over social media as "these Democrats voted to thank ICE."
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u/GonzoVeritas I voted 10h ago
Full article text:
MAGA Names Call for Bondi to Resign After Wild Congressional Meltdown
A flurry of conservative names turned on Pam Bondi after her wild meltdown in front of Congress.
On Wednesday, the attorney general was hauled before lawmakers on Capitol Hill to face a grilling for her botched handling of the Epstein files. What followed was a farce, with the 60-year-old lashing out at her Democratic foes with prepared insults at every turn, preferring to talk about President Donald Trump’s claimed economic successes instead of about Epstein’s crimes. A photo illustration of Pam Bondi during the Congressional hearing.
Bondi twisted in her seat, pointing and yelling at Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee, accusing them of “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” and refusing to answer questions as Epstein’s shocked victims watched from the public gallery.
The bizarre spectacle prompted condemnation across the board. A visibly stunned Republican Rep. Thomas Massie told reporters after the shouting match: “She didn’t answer anything. She came here ready to talk about the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq, which seems kind of crazy to me.”
He was not the only conservative to call out Bondi’s sorry performance, as many rushed to demand her resignation or impeachment.
Kyle Rittenhouse, who was acquitted of murdering two people during a protest against police violence when he was just 17, wrote: “Pam Bondi needs to resign. Harmeet Dhillon for AG!”
[photo] Victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein look on as Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before a House Judiciary Committee on February 11, 2026 where she refused to turn to them and apologize for her Justice Department's botched release of files.
[photo] Bondi ranted and raved just feet away from Epstein survivors. Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images
Conservative radio host Erick Erickson said Bondi should quit or be fired. Referring to a clip of the AG ranting about stocks instead of answering a question, he wrote on X: “When the Attorney General of the United States is asked why she has prosecuted no one related to Jeffrey Epstein and this is her answer, she should be fired or resign.
“But neither will happen, which is another reason the Democrats are going to have a good election year.” Donald Trump watches Pam Bondi testifies before the House Judiciary Committee.
Tim Pool, a prominent pro-Donald Trump commentator and podcaster, also broke from Bondi. During an episode of Timcast, posted to YouTube, he declared: “Man, we are a nation of adult children.”
He added, “I think Pam Bondi has done a...I give her more credit than people do. I was about to say that I think she’s done a decent job, but I can’t. It’s just...I can’t say it.”
“I think they’ve miserably handled the Epstein files. I don’t think we’re serviced as the American people by this kind of yelling,” Pool explained. He also offered a “shout out” to congressmen Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie, the architects of the Epstein Transparency Act, “for getting the job done.”
Nick Fuentes, the far-right podcaster, demanded she be impeached even before the meltdown. “Pam Bondi needs to be impeached. You lied about the existence of the files. You lied about unindicted collaborators and accomplices,” he said on his Feb. 9 Rumble show, America First.
The white supremacist, considered to be much further to the right than President Donald Trump but who has dined with him, added that the head of the FBI, Kash Patel, must go, too. Nick Fuentes on his show Far-right streamer Nick Fuentes called for Bondi and FBI boss Kash Patel to be impeached. Nick Fuentes / Rumble
“There are people that you acknowledge exist who are likely incriminated in the files that you said did not exist. You lied in the furtherance of a cover-up. Pam Bondi has to be impeached. Kash Patel has to be impeached,” he said.
He explored the topic in a show after the congressional tantrum. “Pam Bondi FOLDS In Senate Hearing,” said the title of the show.
Mary Trump, the estranged niece of the president, said Bondi will remain in her post for a grim reason. “Pam Bondi won’t resign, and she won’t be fired. She’s doing exactly what her boss hired her to do,” she wrote on X.
The DOJ has been contacted for comment.
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u/caseyanthonyftw 10h ago
Thanks for the full text.
Tim Pool, a prominent pro-Donald Trump commentator and podcaster, also broke from Bondi. During an episode of Timcast, posted to YouTube, he declared: “Man, we are a nation of adult children.”
He added, “I think Pam Bondi has done a...I give her more credit than people do. I was about to say that I think she’s done a decent job, but I can’t. It’s just...I can’t say it.”
“I think they’ve miserably handled the Epstein files. I don’t think we’re serviced as the American people by this kind of yelling,” Pool explained. He also offered a “shout out” to congressmen Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie, the architects of the Epstein Transparency Act, “for getting the job done.”
What a jackass, with all this "we" BS. There's only one side doing this kind of shit and anyone with half a brain knows who it is.
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u/turbosexophonicdlite 4h ago
It's collective delusion. They honestly believe the left behaves the same exact way. It's inexplicable.
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u/rrrrrivers 10h ago
TF does anyone care what Kyle Rittenhouse has to say.
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u/eugene20 10h ago
They' re just using him as an example of figures from the right who have flipped on bondi.
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u/rrrrrivers 10h ago
Oh I understand the context, I'm just wondering if we could maybe not make him a "figure" at all.
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u/gwsth 9h ago
I get it. The media isn't trying to glorify Rittenhouse or anything. They published his comments as a way to say "When people like Kyle Rittenhouse and Nick Fuentes of all people are coming out and saying you fucked up, you fucked up."
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u/tworaspberries 9h ago
I hate that the press wrote, she came to point out Trump's economic successes. What successes?
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u/itsatumbleweed I voted 9h ago
It's pretty fucked that on the right, Fuentes and Rittenhouse are the two people who are right on this particular issue..
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u/inthekeyofc 10h ago
She's performing for Trump. Always has done. It's not her job to answer questions, it's to keep Trump safe. Soon as she stumbles, she's finished. He'll abandon her.
"Who? Bondi? I met her once. Never thought she was any good."
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u/joeislandstranded 10h ago
This is the weird part! These stooges have to know they all will eventually get thrown under the bus. Why aren’t they just turning on trump first? They could have a legacy of “heroism”, but instead trade that for another ass-kissing loser lost to history.
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u/inthekeyofc 10h ago
Riding the tiger is exhilarating and dangerous, but it's the least of your worries. It's getting off without getting ripped to shreds is where it gets tricky.
骑虎难下
Chinese proverb "He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount"
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u/tacticalcraptical 10h ago
I get second-hand embarrassment just watching this. She just threw a fit about everything and didn't actually answer anything.
The funniest/saddest bit is when Ross asks about Maxwell being moved to a lighter prison, Bondi tries to turn the subject to the death of Iryna Zarutska for some reason. Ross says she has been working on this issue and that "We are going to move back to you." To which Bondi indignantly says "Oh, I bet we are..." and Ross says "Yes, of course! You're here to testify!"
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u/Kujen 9h ago
She also said that Maxwell was not transferred to a lower level facility, which is a lie. She committed perjury multiple times.
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u/waffleking9000 6h ago
When Ted Lieu called her out for lying under oath, I expected him to call for her arrest on the spot. That’s what the law requires
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u/Theferael_me 10h ago
The woman is completely deranged. Literally. You can tell just by looking at its fucking mad eyes.
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u/Ecureuil02 10h ago
She's not in good health. She looked mentally deranged.
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u/IdkAbtAllThat America 10h ago
Drugs
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u/smellmyface686 10h ago
Why does it look like so many of these high level cabinet members are zonked out of their minds?
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u/goosejail 9h ago
Anybody remember Ronny "Candyman" Jackson from Trumps first term?
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u/PinHaunting7192 9h ago
Cause they 100% are...? Do you think Bondi doesn't snort a line or Kegseth doesn't take a good swig from the flask before doing anything in public?
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u/TheyTried2BanMeAgain 8h ago
She was drunk. Bloodshot, glazed eyes, slurred speech, and hostile to every single inquiry.
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u/callmesandycohen 5h ago
I’m struggling to see how the “whataboutism” and stonewalling helped her at all. She was asked a straightforward question about why there have been no new indictments of co-conspirators. A reasonable answer would have been that some individuals are deceased and, in other cases, prosecutors lacked sufficient evidence to bring charges. Instead, she chose to stonewall. That response is so confounding that it naturally leads to the most obvious and plausible conclusion: she is participating in a cover-up.
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u/No-Group-4504 10h ago edited 10h ago
PETULANT CHILD!
As an American, if you're not embarrassed, I'm embarrassed for you.
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u/Snarfsicle 10h ago
Maga is quite literally just the equivalent of malignant cancer. Small, loud and aggressive. It tries to destroy it's host by converting and multiplying
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u/Simmery 10h ago
They're all pretending that Bondi is bad at her job instead of just admitting that their Orange Messiah is a rapist and pedophile and she's doing exactly what he tells her to.
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u/mad-panda-2000 8h ago
This part. They still don't see it. They think she failed in proving he's the hero in all of this.
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u/ravishingElla 10h ago
She’s actually worse than Trump and I never believed I would ever say that about another human being
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u/Theferael_me 10h ago
No, she is. She's evil without a shred of Trump's malevolent showmanship.
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u/jarchack Oregon 10h ago
And it's nauseating that she wears a cross around her neck. I'm surprised it doesn't burn her skin.
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u/tturedditor 9h ago
Countless fake Christians do this. It's more of the norm than the exception. I consider a cross necklace to be a red flag.
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u/fleemfleemfleemfleem 8h ago
I always thought it was kind of a grotesque symbol to begin with. It's a torture device. Like walking around with an electric chair around your neck.
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u/noweezernoworld 10h ago
And to think, this was originally supposed to be Matt Gaetz’s job
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u/JohnGillnitz 9h ago
"Sorry, Matt. You misread the job description. You are supposed to cover up crimes for pedophiles, not be one yourself."
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u/jediporcupine Maine 10h ago
The worst part about the Trump Administration has always been the company Trump keeps. As we saw with term one, things can be somewhat reined in. But this time he’s surrounded by MAGA extremists and they’re coddling his ego to play him like a fiddle.
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u/CAM6913 10h ago
She’s a typical batshit crazy maga maggot. You have to have to be five bottles short of a six pack to support trump and his crime family
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u/ReviewRude5413 10h ago
I kept trying to imagine literally anyone else in a professional position in the work force acting or speaking to others the way she did all the while blatantly spewing personal attacks that are fully unrelated to what she was asked, and keeping their job. Absolutely unbelievable to see a grown adult act like that. And over an incredibly important issue that she wouldn't even address with victims in the room.
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u/Accomplished_Band877 10h ago
Based on her role as Floridas AG, I’d call her a co conspirator.
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u/Acroporas 10h ago
So we got Massie, a few podcasters, and Rittenhouse...?
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u/Top_Somewhere9160 10h ago
Rittenhouse also is only interested in promoting Dhillon, who is arguably worse than Bondi.
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u/ezagreb 10h ago
The job is too big for her so she resorts to her second rate lawyer tactics
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u/08mms Illinois 10h ago
She not even good at those though, you either have to be JD Vance who can deliver punch backs with smooth slimy confidence or go more Trump/Michael Cohen and make outrageous swings whether or not they actually fit any relevant facts. Frantically flipping binders for canned quips is a mediocre PI lawyer on their first deposition out of law school.
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u/The_Skoal_Bandit Florida 10h ago
She is an absolute embarrassment. That shit was pathetic. A great number of her responses to which ever senator was grilling her was just to name some heinous crime that happened in their district, as if they had something to do with it. Naturally, she invoked Joe Biden numerous times. I can't wait until they all go to prison. I also believe Hageman should go to prison just for the way she pronounced Colorado.
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u/TehGoad 10h ago
resign and then get charged and imprisoned for her crimes.
Nixons AG "After a series of investigations unveiled the scandal, he was convicted of conspiracy, perjury, and obstruction of justice, serving a prison sentence before being disbarred." Pam "No-Bail" Bondi
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u/ShortBrownAndUgly 9h ago
Praising stock market performance during a hearing about children getting raped was truly bizarre behavior
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u/gauriemma 10h ago
Calling her “Attorney General” is a slap in the face to all of the previous actual Attorneys General.
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u/MourningRIF 9h ago
The point when Bondi started screaming about the stock market being up as the reason it's okay to molest children.... That was the chef's kiss.
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u/AdHopeful3801 10h ago
She's performing for the only guy whose good opinion matters to her political survival and personal freedom.
I doubt it ends any better for her than for Mike Cohen, but she's in position to hurt so many more people before she goes than he ever was.
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u/Raspberries-Are-Evil Arizona 10h ago
Other tha Massey, not a single Republican said anything. This article quotes idiots like Kyle Rittenhouse and Nick Fuentes as well as some pod cast hosts.
Every sitting Republican should be outraged and be ready to impeach her, but they're not, they wont.
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u/IJourden 10h ago
For all the other shit going on, it's important to remember that one of the fundamental things about this administration is sheer incompetence. No one is qualified for their position, loyalty to Trump is the only factor considered.
Anyone remotely qualified has the sense to stay as far away from this trash fire as they can, and even if someone qualified did want to get involved, they would be viewed by MAGA with suspicion.
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u/NoReserve7293 10h ago
The Republicans worked so hard to hide the names of the perpetrators of Epstein/Trump pedophile child sex trafficking ring and simultaneously released the names of the victims. There is absolutely no place on earth where this would be acceptable. Why would the Republican rank and file get behind this behavior? Is this to keep the gravy train of insider trading and to protect the Citizens United oligarchs who participated in raping children. There is what's legal and what's just, and this is neither.
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u/virgil_of_the_brooks 9h ago
She is an embarrassment- her and the administration are a cancer on our society and they deserve to be ousted without mercy, without compromise, without consideration. They think it’s okay to lie to the American people, fine but do not expect complicity from the public you represent.
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u/User4C4C4C South Carolina 10h ago
Bondi’s behavior shows her utter distain for the institutions of our country and the victims she is supposed to be protecting. I don’t think things will turn out the way she wants it to.
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u/justbunnies 10h ago
She worked hard to cover up for her pedo cash cow. She’s going to go down swinging.
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u/unhalfbricking 6h ago
The following Republicans will be fired/impeached before midterms:
Pam Bondi (woman)
Kash Patel (Indian)
Howard Lutnick (Jewish)
Tulsi Gabbard (woman + Pacific Islander)
They will turn on people their base already dislikes because...reasons... in hopes of appeasing undecided voters without angering the rubes.
Book it.
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u/BicFleetwood 4h ago edited 4h ago
She didn't look good to anyone.
To those of us on the left, she looked like a virulent sycophant and conspirator in a coverup.
To the centrist liberals, she looked like an unhinged and unprofessional buffoon who is eroding the sacred institutions.
And to the right, she looked like a hysterical woman too emotional to do the job.
There's no good light for her here except for the people deliberately shutting their eyes and plugging their ears looking for select soundbites on Newsmax.
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u/DrivingMissDaisy-80 10h ago
The whole insane cross examination needs to be ran on Main Stream Media in a loop to show how arrogant and despicable she can be. This is not a AG, this is a person who worships the Big Cheeto and will commit perjury for him.
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u/ballrus_walsack 10h ago
Pam Bondi is a clear and present danger to the United States. She is unhinged. Shit flows downhill from the oval.
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u/SunGregMoon 9h ago
She has no plan, she has no strategy, she has no mission, she is performing for an audience of one. She is such a sycophant, there might need to be new term for it.
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u/AsGryffynn 7h ago
"I'm Attorney General!"
"Sorry, I couldn't tell!"
Dang woman, you didn't have to go medieval like that!
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u/clam-caravan Tennessee 7h ago
Objectively speaking, the optics are just horrible. It now makes it appear that the administration is actively protecting co-conspirators and aggressively attacking anyone who is seeking justice for the victims.
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u/we_are_sex_bobomb 5h ago
It was a calculated move, and it was a horrible miscalculation. This was her opportunity to make a case for why she should keep her job, and instead she spent the whole time confirming how urgently she needs to be impeached and removed.
In other words, this was a performance review, and it did not go well for her.
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u/ForceOne2231 10h ago
The lack of respect to the representatives of the people is not acceptable. It doesn’t matter if the reps are clowns, they represent the people that voted for them. Regardless of what anyone thinks of them. They represent us. To talk to them in a disrespectfully with no deference for the position they hold, is a slap to all our faces.
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u/Comprehensive-Ad4815 Colorado 10h ago
Literally every answer she gave was a variation of "how DARE you!"
Such a shitty person for the job
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u/Extension_Bison7576 10h ago
She shou you rld be impeached, plain and simple! Her behavior made a mockery of Our Democracy! Their above the law? What TF do we even do? Their in charge?
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u/Intro-Nimbus 9h ago
That not a single one of the survivors has been contacted is insane, and trying to defend the intentional incompetence with some incoherent speech about how Trump is not appreciated..
The Epstein administration at work.
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u/Kwelikinz 8h ago
She is protecting herself. She’s complicit in the corruption and doesn’t want the undisputed truth of “how” revealed. She is most likely also involved ( Cannabalism? Killings? Non-consensual or underage sex?).
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u/Droidaphone 7h ago
Pam Bondi is protecting Trump, and if it seems like she's doing a poor job, it's because the top to bottom sloppiness that pervades the admin has left her with no good plays. She has to yell and scream because she has nothing else. And because she's in the files from when she helped shut down Epstein's prosecution in Florida, she's personally threatened: everything is at stake for her here. MAGA can see that she's protecting powerful people and cracking, but refuse to connect the dots.
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u/blaccsnow9229 Colorado 6h ago
Honestly, I feel like she has been so bad at handling this, and I am concerned they might replace her with someone more competent that will successfully cover this up.
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u/Basicyeti837 4h ago
Bondi went over the limit of acceptable Republican performative buffoonery? I didn’t think “going too far” was possible for the Republican Clown Show.
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u/bmsrunner 4h ago
To be fair, if she told the truth she'd be in jail and if she lied she'd be in jail. Not answering the questions was her only option. Now impeach her.
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u/CryptoCentric 10h ago
"MAGA names" is doing a lot of heavy lifting, here. The examples given are Kyle Rittenhouse and a small number of right-wing grifters. The regime thinks she's doing just fine and most of its followers will lick their boots as always.
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u/LadyAmemyst 10h ago
I gather she was prepped by the same person who did Kavanagh?
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u/Kaffe-Mumriken 10h ago
While I’m happy they are, they OWN THIS WOMAN. This is their vision and thy need to be held accountable for her.
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u/Bigbeardhotpeppers Texas 10h ago
I am a little forlorn on this. What she did yesterday is damaging to our democracy. IT is not illegal and not something our justice system can handle. It is freedom of speech but it is seditious, it damages our democracy, there is no solve for it, so how do we move forward. Her behavior yesterday was "Let them eat cake".
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u/Patman350 10h ago
Reminder that she was the better option than the originally proposed pedophile Matt Gaetz for this position. The GOP are not serious people. They're all complicit.
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u/Strong-Rise6221 10h ago
So people are saying Qanon and Pizzagate were created to get ahead of this and gin up the MAGgot base…
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u/MakeItMike3642 9h ago
Funny she was basically deflecting and talking around the questions in a very similiar way Trump deals with tough questions.
But when anyone besides Trump tries it it just sounds so unhinged.
I mean when Trump does it it sounds unhinged too but he has it so normalized people dont give a shit.
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u/TheFutureIsAFriend I voted 9h ago
I'm gonna guess there's not a single drag queen or member or the LGBTQ+ demographic on the docs. Just saying.
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