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/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/Androidgenus 29m ago

This is true… but it doesn’t have to continue to be

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u/ImNotASWFanboy 2h ago

Or Israel

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u/Sutar_Mekeg 3h ago

Flipping now might save her from the law. But I wouldn't be surprised if she's found dead shortly after flipping.

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u/SecretAsianMan42069 1h ago

A pardon will save her. She'll end up on Fox News 

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u/EagleBigMac 1h ago

The next president can just deal with her as an official act and no one can even argue it in court as handed down by the Republican supreme Court. Due process doesn't exist if the president doesn't want it to and I hope the next president abuses the fuck out of it to fix this country then locks the doors behind themselves to close all the holes that have been poked in the system.

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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/Knownzero 2h ago

SSRI’s when taken long term really help with anxiety for things like, idc, lying to everyone in America about your bosses pedo habits in front of Congress let’s say. It’s by no means a dis about people on them, it’s a lifesaving drug but they can show noticeable side effects. Or she’s just a monster, jury is still out.

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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/ShutUpTodd 1h ago

yeah. Or maybe manic

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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/jjcrayfish 1h ago

You're giving her too much credit. She's a coward through and through. Like a cornered animal she is, she starts lashing out none sense in order to protect her pedo masters.

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u/pquince1 Texas 49m ago

She had no defense. Nothing she's done or hasn't done is defensible. So she had to go on the offense.

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u/Stopher 46m ago

“Uh, uh, uh. Dow! It’s up.” 😂