Attorney General Bondi Melts Down Under Senate Scrutiny

Ben Meiselas

I’m not sure if you’ve had an opportunity to watch Attorney General Pam Bondi testify before the Senate this morning, but this hearing quickly went off the rails.

This morning’s Senate oversight hearing laid bare a truth that we’ve been screaming since day 1: the nation’s top law-enforcement office has been contorted into a political shield for Donald Trump, with Attorney General Pam Bondi stonewalling even the most basic questions about public matters that go to the heart of accountability.

The hearing got especially heated with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse pressing an issue that has hovered on the margins of public reporting for years. He asked Bondi about “public reporting that Jeffrey Epstein showed people photos of President Trump with half naked young women,” and whether the FBI found such photographs “in their search of Jeffrey Epstein’s safe or premises or otherwise.” Bondi would not give a straight answer. Instead, she lashed out: “You sit here and make salacious remarks… trying to slander President Trump,” before pivoting to an unrelated attack on outside figures. When Whitehouse returned to the narrow point—“Have you seen any such thing?”—Bondi again refused to address the question.

That pattern of deflection hardened as senators sought clarity on an alleged cash bribe delivered to border official Tom Homan. Whitehouse asked, “What became of the $50,000 in cash that the FBI delivered, evidently in a paper bag, to Mr. Homan?” Bondi answered with a prepared refrain: “They found no credible evidence of any wrongdoing.” Whitehouse noted, correctly, that this was “a different question.” He was asking where the money went. She would not say. And her silence spoke volumes.

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