Pam Bondi's Come to Jesús Moment

 

     During Pam Bondi's testimony before the House Judiciary Committee yesterday, we saw and heard pretty much what you'd expect from Bondi and then some: Accusations of Trump Derangement Syndrome, partisan sniping, personal insults, interruptions, deflections, lies, etc. But there was a moment of startling clarity in which Rep. Jesús Garcia (D-IL-4) said to Bondi, 

     "You're one of the worst attorney generals in our history and an instrument of Donald Trump's lawless authoritarian agenda, and I'm glad the American people are seeing who you are, how you act, and the lack of good values. My Democratic colleagues have focused on your cover-up of the Epstein files and your passion for protecting pedophiles and child traffickers. That alone is grounds for impeachment."

Rep. Jesús García comes out swinging: "You're one of the worst attorney generals in our history and an instrument of Donald Trump's lawless authoritarian agenda, and I'm glad the American people are seeing who you are." pic.twitter.com/RkQ2xilgoo

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 11, 2026

    That's pretty fucking unambiguous and is an unmistakable lack of confidence in what risibly passes for Bondi's "leadership" of the Justice Department. In fact, it's pretty difficult to catalogue all the ways in which Bondi embarrassed herself and the DOJ and her testimony. 

     Let's just say the Democrats, in a relatively rare show of backbone, sharpened their knives in advance of the hearing. It's kind of like the verbal version of Julius Caesar's assassination in the Senate.

 

     Some of the loudest fireworks came when Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT) claimed her five minutes with Bondi. Rep. Balint said in part, "The Epstein files contain evidence of a multi-decade international criminal conspiracy involving some of the wealthiest and the most powerful people in the world. And obviously, as you know, President Trump's name is all over them, but so are the names of other senior Trump officials. Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce, John Phelan, the Secretary of the Navy, and Stephen Feinberg, the Deputy Secretary of Defense."

      After some shouting, interruptions and back and fort, Bondi, predictably, mentioned the Clintons then accused Balint of antisemitism. Balint shot back, ""Oh, do you want to go there, Attorney General? Do you want to go there? Are you serious? Talking about anti-Semitism to a woman who lost her grandfather in the Holocaust? Really?"

     Basically, Bondi acted like a rabid alley cat suspended over boiling water toward any Democrat who even looked at her. Balint. Garcia. Jamie Raskin. Dan Goldman. You get the idea.

      

 (Kent Nishimura / REUTERS)

    Yet, one of the biggest takeaways from Bondi's primate poo-flinging yesterday was what wasn't said. An observant photographer caught this photograph of a "burn book" in Bondi's hands consisting of the search results of Democrats who'd accessed the Epstein emails on the DOJ's server.

     So, while refusing to answer pointed questions from Democrats (and Thomas Massie) about covering for three top administration officials, refusing to release millions more Epstein files, Pam Bondi had assembled a burn book to use against Democrats for exercising due diligence and reviewing the unredacted Epstein files and was stupid enough to bring it with her.

     The weaponization of the DOJ, indeed.

     Bondi's performance was so hideous, even right winger Erick Erickson insisted on his Substack page that her horrible performance should result in her firing. It was obvious to everyone who watched that her shit show of a hearing was played for an audience of one. But the problem is that Trump doesn't like angry women. Trump wants women to act the way he wants them to.

     This picture taken during the hearing should be shown all over the world. The people standing up behind Bondi are just some of Epstein's victims and Bondi never once acknowledged them. Her DOJ's piecemeal, haphazard release of the Epstein files had redacted the names of powerful men associated with Epstein while releasing the names of all but one of his victims.

     That requires a rarified, special kind of weapons-grade evil that we've never seen out of the Department of Justice. Rep. Garcia was right: Bondi is the worst Attorney General this nation has ever seen and she needs to go. But with the rabid pack of assclowns currently infesting the DOJ, what confidence do we have that we'll get anyone better?