Pam Bondi, nominee to be attorney general, testifies at a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025
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If there are three things the women of the Trump administration do best, they are sporting blinding bleach jobs, dodging challenging questions, and berating anyone who proposes them.
Attorney General Pam Bondi in particular has been strikingly non-transparent and deflectory in her cover-up of the Epstein files, which explicate many of the horrors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking ring. This lack of transparency was especially evident during the Feb. 11 House oversight hearing, during which she was supposed to testify on the Epstein files.
Bondi was called out for a number of things: 7th District of Washington House Rep. Pramila Jayapal confronted Bondi during the hearing about releasing unredacted names of Epstein survivors while redacting names of other perpetrators involved despite the Epstein Files Transparency Act, introduced by the House on Jul. 15, directing her to do the exact opposite.
Jayapal finished her statement urging Bondi to apologize to the Epstein victims, many of which were sitting behind her during the hearing, for exposing their identities while keeping that of their abusers safely hidden.
Instead of answering Jayapal directly, Bondi immediately deflected and insisted that Jayapal and the rest of the members of Congress questioning her should have questioned Bondi’s predecessor, Democrat and former Attorney General Merrick Garland, about Epstein.
Bondi asserted the committee was being unfair to her by questioning her about the Epstein files and not Garland–blatantly, arrogantly ignoring the content of the question regarding her failure to comply with an act of Congress.
Not too long after, New York’s 12th district Rep. and Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee Jerry Nadler pressed the attorney general about her blind compliance to Trump, particularly in the case of Bondi’s Sept. 22 order appointing Lindsey Halligan as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia following the resignation of Erik Siebert after Trump publicly called on Bondi to appoint Halligan to the position.
Siebert was urged to resign by Trump after refusing to indict Letitia James, the woman who sued the Trump Administration for fraud in 2022, on account of the fact that he could find no incriminating evidence to indict James upon investigation despite pressure from the Trump administration to go through with the indictment anyway.
Nadler also noted that Siebert, who had worked 15 years in federal law, was replaced with Lindsey Halligan, an attorney with no prosecutorial experience. He then confronted how Halligan immediately sought indictments against James, as well as former FBI Director James Comey, which a federal district court judge dismissed on Nov. 24 due to the fact that Halligan’s appointment was not approved by the Senate, a necessary part of the process to appoint a U.S. Attorney.
The DOJ then, Nadler mentions, sought two more indictments against James, which were both rejected by the grand juries assigned to the cases–Nadler noted that it is “practically unheard of for a grand jury to refuse an indictment.”
Nadler soon thereafter proposed the following question: “How many of Epstein’s co-conspirators have you indicted? How many perpetrators are you even investigating?”
Bondi, again, attempted to filibuster and completely avoid the question, accusing Nadler of “theatrics” when he and others on the committee argued for Nadler’s time to be returned, since Bondi had already at this point failed to answer most, if not all, challenging questions during this hearing in a direct manner.
Bondi then called 8th District of Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, who also called her out for her filibustering, a “washed-up loser lawyer” before Nadler finished his questioning by asking about the DOJ’s firing of Maurene Comey, a main prosecutor on the Epstein case.
Bondi, in her classic fashion, answered with an immediate mention of the Mueller Investigation, asserting that Nadler, who played a big role in the investigation, and all others who were involved in it need to apologize to Trump.
The subordinates of Trump’s regime play one simple role: defend Donald Trump’s name at any and all costs. Anything that implicates Trump in any negative light must immediately be deemed a fabrication or outright lie, despite mountains of evidence to the contrary.
Even prominent right-wing figures as extreme as Kyle Rittenhouse have called for Bondi’s resignation, citing the Epstein coverup as the reason.
Bondi asserts that this second Trump administration is the “most transparent” in history–data proves otherwise. I am hopeful, as we are seeing a rise in Trump’s disapproval rating, which hints that the American people are seeing at an increasing rate the corruption this administration is, and has always been, all about.
As we are beginning to see legal action against Epstein’s affiliates, most notably the Feb. 19 arrest of former Prince Andrew in relation to his ties to Epstein, I do hope we can see this same sort of action be brought against Bondi and anyone else in obstruction of justice, as well as any and everyone else guilty of atrocities in relation to Epstein’s sex trafficking ring.