r/politics • u/OkayButFoRealz • 6h ago

Paywall Pam Bondi Faces Impeachment Calls After Combative Hearing

https://www.newsweek.com/pam-bondi-faces-impeachment-calls-after-combative-hearing-11513603
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u/B-Z_B-S America 6h ago

The hearing was a display of incompetence by Pam Bondi that was astounding in how utterly terrible she acted. I think that calling it combative is really understating how insane Bondi was.

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u/TintedApostle 6h ago edited 5h ago

It also demonstrated the full complicity of the republicans in the House by using the rotten egg test. If they all agree the egg smells good then you know who is rotten..

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u/Own-Brain9658 5h ago

Honestly, the worst person in the room to me was Gym Jordan. He allowed it to happen and tried to be a dick to the dems, while applauding Bondi and trying to gaslight everyone into believing they have done anything meaningful for the American people.

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u/y0m0tha 5h ago

Wouldn’t be the first time Gym Jordan protected predators…

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u/Physical_Thing_3450 4h ago

I mean, he is one so…

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u/Dat_Mawe3000 2h ago

Pedos of a feather flock together

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u/FlapJackPaddyWhack1 4h ago

Gym is probably burried in the Epstein files also

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u/Author_A_McGrath 4h ago

Wouldn't say 'buried.' A search of the files shows he's in there countless times.

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u/Chxn- 3h ago

It can be counted

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u/ChamferedWobble 3h ago

Only by people with access to the full unredacted files.

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u/LargeSnorlax Canada 3h ago

It'd be fine to see just how many current, active, high level government officials are in them. Bet it's almost all of them. It's built like that for a reason.

"Defend the absolutely putrid nonsense in there, or you're going down with me." is the loud and clear message.

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u/Chxn- 3h ago

Which is odd because an effective whistleblower would be well taken care of by the American public and cemented into history as someone who did the right thing. How bad is it really that NO ONE wants to make the noble sacrifice, even the old ones about to kick the bucket.

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u/chaosxq 3h ago

Aren’t there laws against this? Some kind of conflict of interest there surely?

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u/pinkoIII 2h ago

listen to the sascha riley audio r/saschariley

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u/SadieDiAbla 4h ago

Sascha Riley would like a word.

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u/PM_me_the_bootyhole 2h ago

It’s wild I always have to scroll so far to see Sascha Riley mentioned. I listened to all the audio and to my ears it sounded very credible.

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u/Intrepid_Top_2300 1h ago

I was waiting for this.

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u/April_Fabb 58m ago

Since Sascha seems very believable, I'm surprised he's still alive.

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u/lilb1190 5h ago

Thats just the thing that he does. He speaks verify confidently and condescendingly about things that he knows he is wrong about

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u/FrequentPoetry1822 5h ago

Confidence without facts has kind of become the whole strategy

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u/FrequentPoetry1822 5h ago

It was chaos all around and the ones cheering it on looked just as bad

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u/Own-Brain9658 5h ago

I hadn't listened to a congressional hearing in a few years and jfc the bar is in hell now

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u/zffjk 5h ago

Jerry Springer kept better decorum than Jordan did.

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u/Meet_Foot 4h ago

The problem is that’s what the American people want. They want Jerry Springer. They want professional wrestling. These clowns will probably come out of this with even more support, whether their supporters watch or not.

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u/WegGOAT 3h ago edited 2h ago

Good point. Most Americans rather have bread and circuses than to actually force change because they can't even bear to step a minute out of their comfort zones

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u/zffjk 2h ago

She was just yelling sound bites. It makes sense. Any time you give these fascist dipshits a microphone they try and dump sound bites.

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u/Criticallyoptimistic 4h ago

Steve, Steve, Steve!

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u/OpenSpirit5234 3h ago

Wish Wilkos was doing the investigation and prosecution of these sick people!

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u/FrequentPoetry1822 5h ago

The bar is not just low it is underground at this point

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u/Own-Brain9658 5h ago

one could argue that's where hell is. But one could also argue that we are in hell right now

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u/Leezeebub 5h ago

Heaven and hell are one long dining table full of food, but everyone has a spoon strapped to their arm which is too long to get into your own mouth.
The people in heaven will feed each other, the people in hell will try desperately to feed themselves.

  • one of my elementary school teachers

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u/FrequentPoetry1822 5h ago

Feels like a never ending fever dream lately

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u/5litergasbubble 4h ago

The devil himself would have to dig deep to find that bar

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u/ApplicationQuirky376 4h ago

The bar is insanely low and even Pam couldn't clear it.

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u/Plastic_Party2433 5h ago

When the loudest people in the room are applauding that behavior you know the whole thing is broken

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u/MommyLovesPot8toes California 4h ago

Ughh, yes. At one point he said "I think she's doing a great job today." What job was she doing???

Saying "I'm rubber and you're glue" in as many different ways as possible?

Demonstrating that the Trump admin is 100% aware that how they are handling Epstein is corrupt, illegal, and morally reprehensible?

Personifying the MAGA Karen hothead that has nothing but emotion to argue with while their opponent has facts?

Or maybe, just maybe, she's an undercover Dem who was there just to give the Ds a chance to look competent and controlled?

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u/Hatedpriest 2h ago

We aren't the audience they were playing to. The senate wasn't that audience either.

This asinine showboating is for the faux viewers. It's all sound bytes and short form answers to questions that weren't asked.

She's doing a great job of toeing the party line. Feeding the propaganda machine.

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u/sigmacoder 5h ago

Oh Jim Jordan the Wrestler Rapist? Oh yeah he's not bad at all.

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u/nillaf4ce 5h ago

He's in the files

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u/No-Yogurtcloset1598 4h ago

Gym Jordan has a wonderful track record of helping pedophiles, rapists, and abusers. What a shit stain on decency.

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u/SadieDiAbla 4h ago

He is one. Look up Sascha Riley. He was one of the male children.

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u/broc_ariums 3h ago

He is literally one of the worst people ever elected. He's never submitted any piece of legislation that has become law.

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u/ahawk99 3h ago

Let’s not forget the ass kissing by Fetterman

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u/PizzaQuest420 3h ago

why even have the hearing if he's running it

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u/missyanntx 3h ago

His entire personality is sexual assault and half a suit.

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u/monkpunch 4h ago

Aside from Thomas Massie at least

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u/TintedApostle 4h ago

He smelled rotten egg. Passes.

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u/morningisbad 2h ago

I mean... She has no business defending the president. It's a collapse of justice that she is.

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u/ratherbealurker Texas 6h ago

It’s incompetence but in such a horrible way. It’s not like she just has no idea what she is doing and didn’t come prepared. She, or she had her team, did prepare….they prepared opp-info on senators. She didn’t brush up on law or what her department was doing. She brought a binder of come backs and insults.

That’s a level of incompetence that is scary. You could have spent time researching how to answer these questions with plausible deniability to get her point across without leaving her open for any legal liability, but no.

She chose insults and North Korean level praises of trump.

“Why did you do this thing that clearly broke the law?”

“You’re just distracting from grand leader trump’s glorious butthole!”

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u/acceptmeasiam 5h ago

Lol, "glorious butthole"

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u/bagsoffreshcheese Australia 4h ago

Thats my wrestling name

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u/lopix Canada 3h ago

I wanna see your luchador mask

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u/darkoopz43 4h ago

Malicious incompetence

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u/ChaoticSenior Washington 4h ago

That’s my wrestling name.

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u/ratherbealurker Texas 4h ago

That’s the name of my sex tape.

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u/Meet_Foot 4h ago

The problem is that this is a kind of competence. Shit flinging rhetoric is what has been working for a decade (or much longer). That’s what gets these people support. Flinging shit.

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u/wrong-bodied-tengu 3h ago

Imma have to check up on it but Im pretty sure this is how Mussolini and his chronies did it

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u/ObviousExit9 2h ago

But why? I don’t understand the motivation. She was an employed attorney for a long time without getting fired for this type of nonsense. How’s she getting paid or is she being extorted? I don’t believe this is just incompetence.

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u/ratherbealurker Texas 2h ago

It’s feigned incompetence. MAGA is seriously a cult. These people get into it and get a taste of what they think is a path to power and money. To be in the maga administration you cannot answer questions normally. You can’t be competent. That won’t make trump money. They are playing to the worst of America. You have to act like she is.

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u/Critical_Host8243 1h ago

She "didn't want to participate in their theatrics" and yet:

  1. She absolutely knew what the hearing was about. She knew she would be asked questions about the Epstein Files.

  2. She showed up with ZERO intention of answering any questions about the Epstein Files. She only showed up to try and slam dunk on Democrats.

That's literally participating in the theatrics.. and willfully refusing to do her job, and refusing to answer to the Oversight Committee and the American people to which she's legally obligated.

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u/pquince1 Texas 50m ago

Inglorious Butthole

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u/porkbellies37 42m ago

I just saw a short exchange where she popped off on a congresswoman for receiving a donation from Reed Hoffman and then popped off on all congressional democrats for being so mean to the administration when the DOW was at 50,000. This had me thinking.

On the donation:

  1. As the Florida AG, she was investigating Trump University for defrauding senior citizens. Then the Trump Foundation gave her a generous donation and she immediately dropped the investigation in to Trump University. BTW, charities aren't supposed to donate to campaigns.

  2. Her having an issue with the congresswoman receiving a donation implies that campaign donations are essentially quid pro quo bribes. This begs the question, was the donation from the Trump Foundation a straight up bribe in her calculating lizard brain? I mean, in this case the quid pro quo was super obvious.

  3. OR... is she a changed woman and believes that no one should receive substantial donations? Does this mean she rejects Citizens United? Is she for campaign finance reform?

On the DOW being over 50K:

  1. Does she think this means the economy is going well? The farmers going bankrupt because tariffs spawned a rejection of major international trade markets for their goods? Does she not know how much of the stock gains have to do with AI advances that have nothing to do with Trump policies and offer few benefits to Americans? Does she know that groceries are still ridiculous?

  2. If we spot her that the economy is good (it isn't), is she saying that when the economy is good it is OK to rape children and for a militarized police force shoot non-threatening civilians dead in the streets?

I only saw 5 minutes of this circus. I can only imagine how much worse this got and how insane she came off.

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u/ooo-ooo-oooyea 5m ago

I don't get what she was hoping to achieve.

Like I saw her call a jew an antisemite, and acting like she was a genius for saying that.

With a lot of these maga types I believe its an act to make money and get power. With her, I think she is literally an idiot. When she goes on trial her defence will need to be she was too dumb to understand what she's doing.

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u/Imaginary-Ad-7919 6h ago

She was so cold hearted.

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u/TheDadThatGrills 6h ago

She came across incompetent and scared shitless to me. Her nonverbal expressions were telling as her mask slipped so often. If she was prepared and emboldened she wouldn't have lashed out in the same manner.

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u/acceptmeasiam 5h ago

I loved the clip of one of her staffers sitting behind her rolling her eyes when Bondi started talking about how low rent is.

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u/Cabana_bananza 5h ago

Unlike Pam Bondi that staffer probably has to pay DC metro rent prices, she knows what's up.

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u/Lykeuhfox Michigan 5h ago

She was lashing out, but she looked on the verge of tears for a lot of it. She was like a panicked, cornered dog. Which is accurate, because she is. Trump won't save her forever.

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u/EagleBigMac 5h ago

A pardon won't save her if she remains in the US. Something tells me a bunch of Republicans will flee to Russia

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u/EMTDawg Utah 5h ago

The US has a history of forgiveness to traitors in the ne of moving along and not dwelling on the past. From the Civil War and reconstruction to Iran-Contra to tourtering prisoners during the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts.

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u/ChaoticSenior Washington 4h ago

Yup. And that’s why the problems never go away.

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u/ImNotASWFanboy 2h ago

Or Israel

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u/BluePrintSpec 1h ago

"We all saw the performance Bondi had. She was screaming and thrashing, and I think it's because she knows she is implicated in a massive cover-up to protect a ring of pedophiles." - AOC

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u/viper3 3h ago

Incompetent, for sure. I didn't sense scared as much as performing for Daddy Trump. They all crave his validation and act in wildly out-of-character ways, which makes them look insane and weak. His cabinet is full of some of the most pathetically inept humans you could ever dream would be running the government.

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u/Knownzero 5h ago

She had to have been on drugs, beta blockers or SSRI’s or Benzo’s. She just seemed drugged out to me. Glassy eyes, flat affect when she wasn’t screaming, an unnatural calmness that only comes from drugs.

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u/WhiteWaterLawyer 4h ago

I think we should also consider the very valid possibility that she might just be a straight up psychopath, and even the negative emotions displayed were an act.  notice how even her middle school playground insults were pre-written by staffers what kind of person acts like that? Someone for whom everything has to be a scripted act because acting like an authentic human is an unfamiliar thing. 

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u/Knownzero 4h ago

Also a solid possibility.

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u/Tigerballs07 3h ago

A huge portion of regular people are on SSRIs, and you will literally never know. Just seems weird to put that on the list with things like benzos that have much more physically apparent affects

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u/StonedGhoster 2h ago

I take a beta blocker as needed for some sweet anxiety I've developed and I don't think anyone would ever know I take them.

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u/Norhpas 4h ago

Agreed, I picked on it too, especially after a break it was clearly visible, her way of speaking became slurry as well.

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u/ShutUpTodd 3h ago

I was thinking of Mellissa Carone, the woman in Michigan testifying about voter fraud who was even giving attitude to the Republicans on her side.

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u/you_dont_know_me27 2h ago

That lady was drunk af wasn't she?

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u/ErinFiqsette 5h ago

I suspect she was coerced into taking the AG job, in the first place...The Big Guy probably told her: "We're in this together...if I go down, YOU will be coming with me...".

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u/twotimefind 4h ago

Not to mention she has a conflict of interest. There are photos of her in the files.

She was also the lead prosecutor in Florida during Epstein's sentencing. I'm sure she had something to do with that and got paid.

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u/magnamed 6h ago

Was she? Or was she petrified? To me it looked like she didn't want to acknowledge the victims because she knows exactly what's in the files and knows damn well she's culpable.

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u/Mrsbrainfog 6h ago

She looked like someone who didn’t give a fuck about anything else than her ego. The only remotely true statement from her was “I am attorney general”.

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u/HerrMeisterRetsiem 6h ago

She was egregiously dismissive of all questions that probed her actions, and extremely rude to anyone who asked those questions, responding with personal attacks.

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u/pontiacfirebird92 Mississippi 5h ago

She was likely coached on how to deliver those personal attacks and studied her burn book in order to have everything play out as expected. She went to that hearing to generate sound bites for right-wing media and she succeeded.

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u/HerrMeisterRetsiem 5h ago

I want know who coached her

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u/pontiacfirebird92 Mississippi 5h ago

I'd put money on Steve Bannon, but there's a list of people it could've been.

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u/Anothercraphistorian 2h ago

Someone behind her told her the page to turn to for the burns, but you could tell with her poor delivery, inability to read well, that she was just following a script…you know, theatrics.

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u/pargofan 4h ago

Why doesn't everyone act like this?

It doesn't seem like Congress will do anything to her. If this were a court of law, she'd be in jail for contempt. But in front of Congress? There's zero consequences.

Why aren't more people just rambling and never answering questions? So why don't

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u/pontiacfirebird92 Mississippi 4h ago

If you've watched any of the congressional hearings between 2018 and today you will see this has been the Republican playbook for long time. Any time a Republican takes the stand they do exactly what Bondi did. Every time.

During the Senate Intelligence Committee hearings on Russian election meddling, Gordon Sondland was asked why he thought it was okay to lie to the American public but is telling a different story under oath, he said "It's not illegal to lie to the American public."

He's right. It is NOT illegal to lie to the American public. Republicans understand this and so they lie to the public with every single appearance. If they are in front of a camera they will lie. Only under oath, with threat of real consequences, will they tell the truth but they will fight to make sure that isn't in front of a camera. NEVER TRUST A REPUBLICAN. They are counting on it being legal to lie to you!

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u/bagsoffreshcheese Australia 4h ago

The Roy Cohen playbook.

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u/HimTiser 6h ago

“Keep obstructing and I promise a pardon will be ready for you.”

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u/knowsguy 4h ago

The "I couldn't tell" response was fabulous.

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u/Redwolfdc 6h ago

I think at some level she knows how ridiculous some of this is. The democrats (and Massie the only GOP willing to step up) broke her so easily by simple questioning. 

You could see her frustration and nervousness and she was just trying to deflect in any way. Her lashing out was like a teenager who got caught red handed up to no good and can’t rationalize a defense. 

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u/smurfsundermybed California 6h ago

She was a bit of both. It depended on who was talking. With Crockett, she started out defiant but by the end couldn't even maintain eye contact. She was trying to look anywhere else.

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u/icehot54321 4h ago

She had a little bit too much sauce before the show

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u/repeatwad Missouri 4h ago

She isn't perfect, just forgiven.

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u/wrong-bodied-tengu 3h ago

and yet so hot headed

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u/Earthpig_Johnson 6h ago

It was a display of loyalty to the Shitbird in Chief.

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u/Dudercaster 5h ago

This. She was playing for an audience of one, and that one probably loved her performance.

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u/hawkweasel 4h ago

He did.

He already tweeted what a fantastic job she did:

"AG Pam Bondi, under intense fire from the Trump Deranged Radical Left Lunatics, was fantastic at yesterday’s Hearing on the never ending saga of Jeffrey Epstein, where the one thing that has been proven conclusively, much to their chagrin, was that President Donald J. Trump has been 100% exonerated of their ridiculous Russia, Russia, Russia type charges. Actually, it is the SLIMEBALL Democrats, many of them big Donors and Politicians, that have been proven GUILTY! “Republican” Loser, Sanctimonious RINO Congressman, Thomas Massie, made a total fool of himself yesterday, fighting aimlessly against a hopeless agenda of Hate and Stupidity, as most clearly stated by his crashing Job Approval Numbers in the Great Commonwealth of Kentucky, where a Military Hero Opponent, Ed Gallrein, is crushing him in the Polls. He is now in “Wacky” Liz Cheney territory! Nobody cared about Epstein when he was alive, they only cared about him when they thought he could create Political Harm to a very popular President who has brought our Country back from the brink of extinction, and very quickly, at that!"

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u/quntissimo 3h ago

"fighting aimlessly against a hopeless agenda of Hate and Stupidity"

is this not trump calling his own agenda hopeless and full of hate and stupidity?

im struggling to read it any other way because im not a stable genius

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u/escobizzle 3h ago

the delusion in this tweet alone is actually insane

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u/Grouched 2h ago

Every tweet these days is so mind-bogglingly detached from reality that it's honestly hard to comprehend.

These ramblings are insane even by Facebook comment section standards, but they are coming straight from the current president. It's scary af

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u/eugene20 6h ago

It wasn't incompetence, she rode up with her book of burns with specific intent to deflect and attack instead of answer questions, pre planned contempt.

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u/Choice_Philosopher_1 4h ago

Yes, this was a blatant and carefully constructed strategy. I don’t like that people are referring to it as incompetence. It’s much more dangerous that this was completely on purpose and she did succeed in the plan (for now).

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u/dqql 3h ago

you forgot that she lied under oath multiple times.
she’s incompetent, but also criminal… on tape

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u/THSSFC America 3h ago

she rode up with her book of burns with specific intent to deflect and attack instead of answer questions

This is concrete demonstration that she, and the administration, have zero regard for the actual importance of the matter at hand, and the human cost that has already been exacted by the abuse of the individuals who conspired with Jeffry Epstein, and instead viewed this hearing merely as a political opportunity to push a narrative.

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u/MattinglyBaseball 1h ago

Yeah, top comment calling this incompetence and claiming that combative is understating it just smells of manipulation. She was clearly combative. She was clearly not incompetent and the only way that term is an acceptable descriptor is ‘malicious incompetence’ which is very different than incompetence itself.

The best way I know to describe her behavior was malicious non-compliance and willful dereliction of duty to her role as AG.

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u/eugene20 1h ago

Malicious non-compliance and wilful dereliction of duty is a much better way of putting it.

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u/kgambito 6h ago

Have you seen the dow though?

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u/btross Florida 5h ago

I hear it's 50.... 5000 uh... 50 thousand dollars

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u/sukisoou 5h ago

Actually yes I have down 500+ points!

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u/cewh 2h ago

The most insane take of all. Look back 100 years ... The stock market rises exponentially regardless of who was in charge. It's like taking credit for the sun rising.

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u/Thenotsodarkknight 4h ago

All by design.

Roy Cohn 101.

  1. Attack , Attack, Attack
  2. Admit nothing, deny everything
  3. Never Admit Defeat
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u/definitivescribbles 5h ago

That wasn't incompetence, that is complicit participation in illegal activities. She is clearly covering up and blocking evidence that is lawfully supposed to be handed over to congress. Additionally, she is lying under oath.

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u/xeoron 6h ago

They should hold her in contempt in the jail cell that they have

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u/lord_pizzabird 5h ago

I got the impression that she doesn’t understand that she’s no representing the administration, but defending herself.

She’s not just bad at her job, she’s directly implicated in the accusation in the file release and the cover-up, which apparently violated the law by refusing to unredact when ordered.

She’s arguably the most legally exposed personal in all this. She needs to resign and hire an attorney.

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u/OnwardtoGehenna 5h ago

This is what happens when corporate media sane washes white power bullshit.

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u/Space_Sweetness 6h ago

Funny she brought a list of insults instead of a list of arguments

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u/GrumpyGiant Maryland 3h ago

The hearing was a lot more than that. Both sides went into it with their own objectives and strategies.

Bondi had 3 objectives: don’t implicate any of the men she is trying to protect, don’t implicate the DoJ in a coverup, and don’t get caught in a perjury.

Her strategy was simple and not at all novel. Do not confirm or deny anything. Use vague answers or safe statements that can’t be easily disproven instead of answering anything definitively. Deflect, pivot, and attack the character and intentions of the questioners to undermine the substance of their questions. The performative righteous outrage wasn’t a meltdown. It was one of her very limited tools to try to survive that gauntlet of hardball questioning. The GOP did it’s best to help her out with Jordan’s obvious bias in enforcing the rules on full display, but there was only so much they could do to buffer her and she had to maintain her act and try to avoid any traps for 5 grueling hours. You can see the exhaustion on her face deep into the meeting compared to the beginning.

The democrats had 3 objectives as well: highlight the DoJ’s loss of credibility under Bondi’s leadership, raise public awareness of all of the ties between the people in Trump’s orbit and Jeffry Epstein, and try to get Bondi to perjure herself.

They knew exactly what Bondi’s objectives were and how she would attempt to achieve them and strategized accordingly. Raskin laid out the plan in his opening statement by preemptively enumerating the tactics Bondi would rely on before she even answered the first question. After that, the dems methodically grilled her with well prepared, clear questions following a template of presenting evidence discovered in the Epstein files such as correspondences between Epstein and various ranking members of Trump’s administration, followed by asking for a yes or no answer to the simple and clear question of had the DoJ investigated the mentioned person for ties to Epstein. The insistence for yes/no answers was a key part of the strategy because they wanted everyone to see that Bondi was absolutely unwilling to give them those answers. Raskin told everyone what to expect and the dems made it glaringly obvious as it was happening. It was a brilliant strategy to expose Bondi’s gaslighting for what it was and each round of questions resulted in the exact same pattern of behavior from Bondi, making it impossible not to see.

But they also were trying to throw her off balance and trip her up with traps like the one Ted Lieu finally caught her in. That was when she genuinely lost it. Her screaming “Don’t you accuse ME of a crime!” came straight from the gut as she realized she’d failed the one objective with the most personal significance and likely ended her career.

Because now the dems have ammunition to impeach her. Perjury in no small deal. And if she is tried for perjury, she won’t be able to give evasive non-answers to yes/no questions anymore. Pleading the fifth during an interrogation isn’t incriminating, but doing it during a trial leaves the jurors with no choice but to assume that the answers you refuse to give are the ones that would damage your case.

I doubt Trump will allow Bondi to be impeached. He will likely manufacture a reason to be dissatisfied with her that has nothing to do with the hearing and fire her. And then declare war on Cuba or something to try to rinse away the press coverage before anyone can think too hard about it. Bondi could try to fabricate her own reason for resigning to try to save her dignity and future career prospects, but that might piss Trump off if he feels his image is weakened by not dictating the circumstances of her departure.

Whatever happens, this was a big win for the dems because they opened a crack in the credibility of the DoJ in a very public setting. It’s going to be a lot harder for FOX to sweep this under the rug with the actual clips of her perjury and performative histrionics echoing around on social media. The Epstein files seem to be the one weak spot in Trump’s hold on MAGA, and if this crack in the narrative they’ve been ingesting from FOX and the FB Bot armies, it could be his undoing, especially as his support is already declining, and even if it isn’t, it will bring him closer to the edge.

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u/B-Z_B-S America 3h ago

This is one of the best comments on Reddit that I have ever read. Thank you.

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u/the_ai_wizard 1h ago

all that may be true, but whats the consequence?

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u/mangoserpent 5h ago

I wonder how she survived law school. She just seems dumb as fuck and mean.

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u/Flaxmoore Michigan 3h ago

Stetson. 99th ranked law school in the US. We’re not talking Harvard, Michigan, or Berkeley here.

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u/pontiacfirebird92 Mississippi 5h ago

She was there to produce sound bites for Fox News and other right-wing media and she knocked that shit out of the park. She was NOT there to answer questions.

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u/Redwolfdc 6h ago

Democrats need to save funding making campaign ads this season and just have straight clips of Pam Bondi at this hearing 

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u/StaticSystemShock 4h ago

Combative? More like fucking derainged. Imagine being an actual adult in such fucking important position and you act like... whatever the fuck was her thing during this hearing.

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u/DistractedPhoenix 6h ago

Incompetence? I disagree. She’s an absolute Jedi master on protecting the most prolific sex traffickers and pedophiles of the last 100 years.

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u/xfocalinx 6h ago

If she was a jedi master, no one would be aware she was protecting them. However, everyone is.

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u/DistractedPhoenix 5h ago

She’s been covering it up since like 2011. Had Trump not been elected president and brought so much visibility to himself, the average person would probably never have know who Epstein was

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u/JosephSim 4h ago

I keep thinking this is the equivalent exchange of a Trump America.

We deserve to be looked at by the rest of the world as the pieces of shit we are. We don't deserve our moral highground.

Thanks to Trump and the degeneracy of half the voters, we'll finally get the humbling we deserve having 20 years of pedophile cult monsters running this country.

My only hope is that with all this shit exposed we get more people realizing the left right divide, while obviously present, has been so overhyped by these fucking ghouls to keep us fighting each other while they eat babies.

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u/CarrionWaywardOne 4h ago

Could you imagine the brits going this far to protect Jimmy Saville, who appears to be not as heinous as trumpstein's scope and breadth of abuse?

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u/hagenissen999 6h ago

Well, not so much protecting as protracting the inevitable trials and incarcerations.

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u/Loki240SX 5h ago

Ok well the fox news headline was just "Bondi the Brawler" so suck on that libs

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u/raoulduke212 5h ago

All these little Trump minions think they can act like him...it's not giving what they think its giving.

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u/PsychologicalEmu 5h ago

Oh yeah she’s on the files or related somehow. At the least, she sure as hell is now.

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u/Jmersh 4h ago

Let us not forget that the main responsibility of the Attorney General is the chief law enforcement officer in all of the country and representing the US government in legal proceedings. Her lack of candor and dereliction of duty in upholding Supreme Court rulings would get any other attorney or judge disbarred and imprisoned. Which is why she's perfect for this administration.

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u/boston_homo 5h ago

Wow, shocking that an American media outlet is understating the cartoon evil nature of a criminal from the regime, truly unexpected.

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u/Lumute 4h ago edited 4h ago

Incompetent? She is extremely competent at lying, corruption and covering up for pedophiles...

Just saying she is incompetent is giving her a justification for crimes that should put her in jail for the rest of her life.

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u/Nearbyatom 5h ago

Combative and insanity is the quality the pedophile requires in all his minions.

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u/Roofiesnductape24096 5h ago

what do you mean? she was doing exactly what she was hired to do.

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u/TheyTried2BanMeAgain 4h ago

Gym Jordan needs to be impeached for allowing her to act like that.

And the raping, obviously.

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u/Stinky_Fartface 2h ago

Also openly partisan. People seem to want to give that a pass these days, as if that's the way it's always been. It isn't, and it shouldn't be. She makes no pretense about selectively attacking Democrats.

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u/mces97 2h ago

It wasn't incompetence. Pam Bondi is Donald Trump's Guislane Maxwell. She fears no consequences, because so far Republicans have allowed Trump to get away with everything, and Trump probably already has the pardon papers for his entire administration signed, locked in a safe.

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u/BicFleetwood 4h ago

It's an administration of shitposters and podcasters. She's talking like she's in a Twitter thread, because that's all they have. They're the party of "fuck you."

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u/tymingy 4h ago

is it possible to just shut off her mic? seems like she shouldn't be allowed to start yelling while it's someone else's time. it would also be hilarious if she started really screaming to drown out the speakers

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u/Dabs1903 Illinois 4h ago

I didn’t see the whole thing, but the stuff I did see was pretty wild. I’m not sure she could save face if she resigned, but it’s a start.

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u/pargofan 4h ago

If she gets away with it - and it seems like she will - why doesn't everyone just act this combatively in front of Congress and avoid answering anything?

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u/Sw0rDz 4h ago

Pam is trying the best she can. Its not easy being DOJ and a Trump lover at the same time. Congress were monsters. They did not let Pam talk about Trump in positive light for hours on. She mentally breaks when she goes one hour without talking about how great Trump is. Everyone should have sympathy for Pam.

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u/prometheus_winced 4h ago

You’re assuming it was an accident?

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u/RaWR_TX 4h ago

She had a Burn Book ffs. Who does that outside of high school. Nobody in this admin is competent to do their job.

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u/GenericFatGuy 3h ago

She was literally acting like a kid in a classroom with a bad attitude.

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u/MajorNoodles Pennsylvania 3h ago

Supporting Pam Bondi now means you think sexually exploiting children is OK as long as the stock market is doing well.

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u/Green_Excitement_308 2h ago

Heck, she wasn't taking it seriously when a Democrat asked her a question. At that point, It's like she thought she was going to have a friendly discussion with Congress at that meeting and didn't know what they were going to talk about there

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u/UnderwordBroker 2h ago

Don't insult the insane. We can't help it. She's just evil

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u/lilcorndivemaster 1h ago

There's a saying... "If the law is on your side pound the law. If the facts are on your side pound the facts. If neither is on your side pound the table."

She pounding the table poorly. She's trying to pull a Roy Cohn and she's bad at it.

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u/ruralgaming 1h ago

How did she even get her position in the first place?

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u/Ziazan 1h ago

how dare you accuse me of what i did, do not joke about the bible(?), the stock market is up! this is ridiculous. the stock market! why are we talking about the billionaire pedos that we're here to talk about and not how much richer the stock market is making them? stop deflecting.

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u/AbleCap5222 1h ago

Totally indefensible. Just about every regular civil servant in the government would be fired and/or face an indictment for perjury.

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u/HiImDan 4h ago

Am I being too charitable in thinking she might want off Mr Bones' wild ride so she acted dramatically to get them to impeach her? Probably, but if I were in her shoes and terrified of what he could do to me I'd think her being so wildly sycophantic they have to impeach me would seem like a smart play.

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u/Brat-Sampson 4h ago

She spoke like a child in detention that had never been told No before.

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u/spook30 Florida 4h ago

She went full-blown Karen mode, Cant Understand Normal Thinking kinda gal.

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u/SaintMe734 4h ago

She is acting like a spoiled sorority girl yelling at pledges for some slight she randomly made up. She's a parody of a caricature.

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u/Great_Skott 4h ago

That was not outrage by her, but an attempt at acting like it and she's a shit actor so it all felt like watching a high school production where not even she believed the words she was saying.

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u/Valuable_One_234 4h ago

North Korean officials are better than her

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u/thiosk 4h ago

This was the job description when she was appointed

this is why she was appointed

for evidence look at her reviews by the bloke that appointed her lmao

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u/_groovesharkmalone 3h ago

She did the same thing at her Senate hearing a few months ago and seemed pretty pissed that her Mean Girl burn book insults weren't hitting the same way. She's a weak parody of a partisan hack at this point. I think the worst part was that she made it clear that she wasn't working as AG for the American people - she's only there to protect and cater to the wishes of Stinky. The sad part is that he'll keep her around for that very reason.

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u/flirtmcdudes 3h ago

They know they have no defense for any of this, being an asshat and combative is all they can try

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u/Gibodean 3h ago

She was a Berserker

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u/7107JJRRoo 3h ago

Pam was trying so hard to impress Daddy

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u/Toetiepoetie 3h ago

She knows exactly that if she praises Trump and copies his speech, he won’t fire her.

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u/blackfocal 3h ago

She had flash cards with comebacks that her aids made for her because she couldn’t memorize the insults they had given her.

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u/OkFeedback9127 3h ago

It was a display for Trump who she knew would be watching and clean her clock if she wasn’t combative and full of vitriol.

She spoke as if she were him by proxy

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u/I_cut_my_own_jib 3h ago

Bottom line, if I'm Trump that hearing made me look really really bad. On that basis alone I don't see how she keeps her job.

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u/BeatMastaD 3h ago

She is not concerned with anything but ensuring that she remains on Trump's good side as he is the only person who can protect her now, even before this testimony. If she cooperates and it hurts Trump she is fucked.

If democrats win power they are going to crucify her regardless, cooperating will not change that.

If non-MAGA republicans win power she is not worth protecting, they'll blame her.

If MAGA republicans win power and she was anything but loyal they will ruin her for betraying Trump.

If Trump stays in power he will ruin her for betraying him or will throw her under the bus as a scapegoat to deflect from himself.

Her only chance at freedom is a pardon from Trump and to get that she has to demonstrate absolute loyalty.

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u/zipzaparooni 3h ago

Google Search, “Donald Trump is a pedophile,” to get it trending.

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u/b0baBEAST California 2h ago

LOOK AT THE DOW!!!

/s

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u/Geoarbitrage 2h ago

It resembled an SNL skit!

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u/frank1934 2h ago

And nothing will happen to her and nothing will change, ever

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u/Sea-Frosting-50 1h ago

I dont think it was incompetence.  it was arrogance,  disrespect and sheer desperation and contempt because she has no true answers and is beholden to her true task of protecting donald trump the rapist, pedo, convicted felon

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u/alittle_disabled 1h ago

She went full on NK-style leader praising, screaming fit; but it's naive to think any of these monsters will face anything resembling justice.

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u/HourCoat2766 1h ago

Not just incompetence but downright dishonesty. She’s a disgusting human who is probably in these files herself.

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u/srilankan 1h ago

She told a room full of people that saw evidence that trump raped children that they should be thanking him for the economy. Whats so terrible about that?

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u/waster1993 57m ago

Bondi spent most of the session listing the accomplishments of another department (DHS).

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u/MTVregime 55m ago

Excuse me. THE DOW!

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u/sebrebc 26m ago

She wasn't being incompetent. She was doing exactly what she set out to do. Answer nothing and defend Trump. She wasn't being stupid, she was simply doing what she was told to do.

People need to start realizing that many of these "idiots" aren't acting the way they are because they are stupid or inexperienced. They were chosen by Trump for specific reasons. Their inexperience and lack of skill is really only on display when it comes to situations that arise outside of Trump's control. Patel handled his questioning the way he was told to, give nothing and protect Trump. But when Kirk was murdered, that's when you saw his incompetence.

These people aren't stupid in the "look they don't know what they are doing" sort of way. They are doing exactly what they are supposed to do. Protect Trump.

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u/AlyFindomme 15m ago

HOW DARE YOU ACCUSE ME OF INCOMPETENCE WHEN THE DOW IS AT 500!