Today’s grilling of Attorney General Pam Bondi has been, by any fair standard, thrilling television. The back-and-forth bickering, the hectoring and the insults have all been first-rate…acidic, bombastic, filled with spite and loathing.
N.Y. Times: “Bondi has accused the Democrats of ‘theatrics’ in her appearance at a House Judiciary Committee hearing. But the attorney general has been, by far, the loudest voice in the room. She has insulted several Democrats and has been repeatedly, if gently, blocked by Jim Jordan, a Republican and the chairman of the committee, from shouting over her questioners.
“An uncomfortable and dramatic moment. Under pressure from Pramila Jayapal, a Washington Democrat, Bondi refuses to apologize over her actions in the case to victims of Jeffrey Epstein who are in the hearing room. Bondi, who appeared caught off guard, pivoted to attack Jayapal for trying to drag her ‘into the gutter.'”