The Mistress of Contempt
Pam Bondi is a national embarrassment as an attorney general on top of being an embarrassment to the legal profession:
Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to apologize to survivors of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein who were seated in the House Judiciary Committee room on Wednesday — and instead demanded that Democrats apologize to President Trump.
Ms. Bondi, imitating Mr. Trump’s tactic of going on the attack when facing tough questions, offered few detailed answers, no admissions of fault but many expressions of fealty and admiration for a president who has exercised direct control over the Justice Department’s actions.
Aaron Rupar explains The Bondi Method:
holy shit — Bondi's new tactic is refusing to answer Democratic questions, then using time during the next Republican questioner to smear the previous Democratic member and accuse them of being complicit in violence crimes
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 11, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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Reading from her Book of Insults, Bondi comes prepared, as Glenn Thrush puts it, to “stall-and-brawl”:
The last time Ms. Bondi appeared before a congressional panel was in October, when she stonewalled Democrats for four hours and read from a list of scripted insults in response to their questioning of her conduct.
What a shame The Mistress of Contempt didn’t come dressed and accessorized for the role. Halloween will be here before we know it.
You may have heard that members of Congress may now review the millions of released Epstein documents in unredcated form by visiting the Department of Justice offices. For members’ convenience, the DOJ has provided four, count ’em, four computer teminals for the hundreds of MOCs.
What’s more, we found out on Wednesday that the DOJ is surveilling Congress members’ searches. Fox News and GOP MOCs would screech like banshees for weeks if a Democrat-led DOJ did the same. As is, it will be a one-day story.
But the most dramatic exchange I watched came after Bondi’s questioning by Rep. Becca Balint (D) of Vermont (via Aaron Rupar):
BONDI: You didn’t ask Merrick Garland anything about Epstein
BALINT: Weak sauce. Weak sauce.
BONDI: And with this antisemitic culture right now, she voted against a resolution–
BALINT: You want to go there?! Are you serious? Talking about antisemitism to a woman who lost her grandfather in the Holocaust! Really?! Really?! *storms off*
I really thought Balint was gonna invite Bondi to step outside. I’d have paid to watch that. Donald Trump is too stupid and emotionally damaged to waste hate on. On the other hand….
It’s Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. Looks what’s become of the country he saved.