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Miles Archer

(20,450 posts)
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 03:50 AM Wednesday

BREAKING: Woman COMPLETELY LACKING INTEGRITY hisses "Don't you ever. Challenge. My. Integrity."

For hours, Bondi dodged questions from Democratic senators on everything from the Epstein files to Trump’s targeting of his political foes, to what authority the president has to launch fatal strikes against boats he merely claims are trafficking drugs off the coast of Venezuela, to the systematic firing of Justice Department or FBI officials who probed the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6, and more.

At one point, Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) — himself a Trump opponent who has been a subject of the president’s political targeting — ran down a laundry list of questions Bondi wouldn’t answer Tuesday, like what role she had in flagging any reference to Trump’s name in the Epstein Files, whether she approved of the mass firing of anyone who criminally investigated Trump at the DOJ or if she supported the creation of a compensation fund for Jan. 6 rioters.

Bondi’s approach to Democrats on the oversight hearing was summed up in her response to a question posed by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D.-Conn.) about her possible conflicts of interest amid Trump’s acceptance of a $400 million plane from the Qatari government. (Bondi lobbied on behalf of Qatar when she worked for Ballard Partners.)

“How dare you? I am a career prosecutor! Don’t you ever. Challenge. My. Integrity,” she replied, punctuating nearly every word in her sentence with a pause.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pam-bondi-hearing-senate-judiciary-committee_n_68e56d1ae4b05e212f21fb5e

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BREAKING: Woman COMPLETELY LACKING INTEGRITY hisses "Don't you ever. Challenge. My. Integrity." (Original Post) Miles Archer Wednesday OP
Her appearance Tuesday will go down in history Grim Chieftain Wednesday #1
Well, then the answer is obvious. blue neen Wednesday #11
It sounds like we need to prosecute the career prosecutor. DFW Wednesday #2
Some of them. Harker Wednesday #3
Just this one. DFW Wednesday #6
By "some of them", I meant those felons who do prison time. Harker Wednesday #8
Methinks the 'lady' Biggles7650 Wednesday #4
How can one challenge her "integrity" joshdawg Wednesday #5
Despicable Trump whore. The most corrupt attorney general in U.S. history dalton99a Wednesday #7
The proper response? mwmisses4289 Wednesday #9
Perfect Seinan Sensei Wednesday #12
What integrity? area51 Wednesday #10
MaddowBlog-AG Pam Bondi refused to answer key questions, and Adam Schiff kept the receipts LetMyPeopleVote Wednesday #13
For anyone to "challenge her integrity" she would first have to have some. yellowcanine Wednesday #14

Grim Chieftain

(690 posts)
1. Her appearance Tuesday will go down in history
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 05:08 AM
Wednesday

and not in a good way. She was totally unhinged, ranting, raving, lying, flipping through a notebook for talking points - no decorum whatsoever. Yep, true Trumper, through and through. Disgraceful.

DFW

(59,108 posts)
2. It sounds like we need to prosecute the career prosecutor.
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 05:20 AM
Wednesday

She seems to deserve serving the next fifteen years as a career felon. After all, that’s what other felons do, isn’t it?

DFW

(59,108 posts)
6. Just this one.
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 08:08 AM
Wednesday

That's why I used the singular. Nixon's gang were (Republicanese: we're) choir boys and girls compared to this gang of thugs.

LetMyPeopleVote

(171,032 posts)
13. MaddowBlog-AG Pam Bondi refused to answer key questions, and Adam Schiff kept the receipts
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 04:07 PM
Wednesday

Over several hours, the attorney general was unprofessional and partisan, but most importantly, she was evasive, rejecting important lines of inquiry.

AG Pam Bondi was unprofessional and partisan, but most importantly, she was evasive, refusing to answer good questions she didn’t like.

Fortunately, Adam Schiff kept the receipts. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-10-08T13:48:39.368Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/ag-pam-bondi-refused-answer-key-questions-adam-schiff-kept-receipts-rcna236327

The U.S. attorney general has traditionally been known as “the people’s lawyer.” Attorney General Pam Bondi, however, has gone out of her way to position herself as Donald Trump’s lawyer......

But it was the same California senator who also used the opportunity to share some of the receipts he’d collected over the course of the proceedings. As The New Republic noted:

Democratic Senator Adam Schiff of California took Attorney General Pam Bondi to task Tuesday for her incessant deflections and evasions throughout a Senate judiciary hearing. Bondi had verbally attacked Democratic senators throughout the hearing rather than answer their questions. Schiff was, evidently, keeping track of questions Bondi left unanswered, and he ran through the lengthy (yet inexhaustive) list.


It was arguably the most memorable exchange of the frustrating hearing.

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-10-07T17:29:23.535Z


As Schiff documented, Bondi refused to respond to all kinds of legitimate lines of inquiry, including:

whether the attorney general consulted with career ethics lawyers before approving a $400 million gift from Qatar (a country she was a paid lobbyist for);

what role she played in asking that Trump’s name be flagged in the Jeffrey Epstein files;

whether White House border czar Tom Homan took the $50,000 from undercover FBI agents in the run-up to the 2024 election;

whether career prosecutors found insufficient evidence to charge former FBI Director James Comey;

whether Bondi discussed the Comey indictment with Trump;

how the administration concluded that military strikes against civilians in international waters are legal;

whether Bondi approved the firing of antitrust lawyers who disagreed with the Hewlett Packard merger;

whether she supported a fund for violent insurrectionists who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6;

whether the Justice Department had fired career professionals because they worked on Jan. 6 cases;
and whether DOJ employees should have to abide by court orders.

In effectively all of these instances, the attorney general could’ve offered substantive answers. She instead attacked senators for asking good questions she didn’t like.
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