Pam Bondi, Trump’s Attorney General, testified before the House Judiciary Committee yesterday, and she was rude and insulting when responding to Democrats’ questions. She refused to answer questions, instead praising Trump and citing the booming stock market.
They, in turn, gave her a hard time for destroying the integrity of the Department of Justice and turning it into Trump’s instrument of revenge.
Here are amazing excerpts:
Jimmy Kimmel shows some of Pam Bondi’s fieriest moments.
Watch Bondi’s non-response to Raskin.
Congressman Jamie Raskin lectured Bondi on her dereliction of duty.
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, realizing that Bondi would not answer any questions, used her time to grill Bondi.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Thanks for this video compilation of Democrats actually showing that some of them know how to fight back. They made Bondi look like the corrupt sycophant that she is. Kudos to Jasmine Crockett who chose to use her time to outline a lot of the GOP corruption rather than giving Bondi another opportunity to flaunt her fake outrage. It will be a shame if Ms. Crockett loses her seat in Texas in the coming election as some polls predict. She knows how to speak truth to power.
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I agree. If she loses, she loses her seat in Congress.
I wish Katie Hobbs had stayed in Congress instead of running and losing Gov race in CA
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Wow. That hearing was breathtakingly embarrassing & enraging at the same time. She was my Attorney General here in Florida & was bad enough during those years under Ron DeSantis. But this display, with her screaming that Trump is the greatest president ever, etc. was just surreal, knowing that the DOJ is supposed to be & historically has been a separate, arms-length entity from the Executive branch. Sadly, nothing will change in our country until Republicans, who are in the majority in Congress, stand up for the Constitution & put this regime in it’s place & restore Rule-of-Law to our government.
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Wow. Talk about your scary mommies.
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At my coffee group this morning at my senior center, six of the nine seniors with me loved Bondi’s testimony. They laughed about how “she really laid into them” (Democrats). I tried my best to explain to them why Bondi is not merely inept, but outright evil…to no avail. I’m 83, and the group ranged in age from mid-70s to late 80s. They all vote in every election. The six Bondi fans aren’t outright racists, but it’s always been clear that they don’t like to be around nonWhite people (there are zero nonWhites at our senior center, even though our community has a large nonWhite population).
If my little “focus group” has any significance, it’s that we live in The Divided States of America, and the twain is still far from meeting…and, like Kipling said, maybe never the twain shall meet because the “them and us” perspective is hard-wired into the primitive inner sections of the human brain from primordial tribal times and the modern cerebral cortex will never be able to wholly subdue it.
As we prepare to celebrate President Lincoln’s day, it’s clear that the question he asked in his Gettysburg Address about whether or not a nation dedicated to the idea that “all men are created equal” can long endure still hasn’t been answered.
BY THE WAY: HERE’S HOW STATES CAN PROSECUTE ROGUE ICE OFFICERS
In the case of “In Re Neagle” the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal agents who use more force than is “necessary and proper” CAN BE PROSECUTED BY STATE GOVERNMENTS.
The first federal officer to be prosecuted under the Court’s “Neagle” ruling was the FBI agent who shot the wife of gun rights activist Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. Conservatives and gun rights activists cheered that prosecution.
In the case of “Barnes v. Felix” the Court UNANIMOUSLY ruled that in cases such as the ICE shooting of Renee Good and Felix Pretti in Minneapolis the “totality of circumstances” must be taken into account. In the case of Mrs. Good, she had just less than a minute before said to the agent who shot her: “That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad at you”, and then she began to drive away at a perfectly normal speed, not charging at the officer, and in fact turning away from the officer.
In the Supreme Court-required “totality of circumstance” it’s clear that the agent knew Mrs. Good wasn’t a threat to him and yet he used deadly force that was not “necessary and proper”. He could likely be arrested under the “Neagle” ruling and tried under the “Barnes v. Felix” ruling.
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Quikwrit,
I don’t think I would be happy in your coffee group. It seemed obvious to me that Pam Bondi was rude, arrogant, belligerent, and lacking in any sense of respect or honor for the office she holds.
I saw nothing admirable in her behavior. She has an audience of one. She doesn’t work to uphold the Constitution to which she swore her oath but only to serve her master. The Justice Department is not supposed to be the legal defender of the White House but independent supporter of the rule of law.
Bondi proved that her loyalty is to Trump, not the Constitution. If her name is recorded in history, she will have a legacy of shame.
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Thing is, Diane, the folks in my senior citizens coffee group are not unlikeable people…in fact, they are quite likeable. All are grandparents and great grandparents, and most of the conversation over coffee is talk about the grandkids and great grandkids. All of the folks in my coffee group are moderate conservatives — but genuine Eisenhower conservatives. That is, their central conservative concern is about government spending and the government debt, which they — and I — see as a genuine threat to the future well-being of our grandkids. None of my coffee group are rabid MAGA minions, and they all express distaste for and dismay about the ICE brutality, saying, basically, what many Republicans say: “This isn’t what we voted for.” They want illegal immigration stopped and illegal immigrants deported, but in a humane way without separating families and without inhumane concentration camps; and they agree that the situation of sorting out who is to be deported is very complicated.
They have hostility for Democrats and liked the way Bondi “really laid into them” not because Bondi is some sort of hero to them, but because they blame Democrats for the deadly federal debt. The root of their feelings, as is the root of the frustration of tens of millions of Americans, is that their voices have not been heard in D.C. for a long, long time. Our Constitution sets the ratio of Representatives at one Representative for each 30,000 people. In spite of the fact that no amendment has ever changed that ratio, only a clearly unconstitutional law (the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929), today’s ratio is one Representative for 785,000 people. Little wonder that people feel the government doesn’t represent them and are frustrated with the situation. The People are correct.
That universal frustration is the fertile ground from which MAGA feeds.
There are certainly many thousands of racists and bigots in our nation, but the vast majority of people, regardless of political party, are reasonable and fair-minded people — as are the folks in my coffee group — but whose frustration at having their voices unheard in the Capitol is at a very, very high level.
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Everyone has the right to believe their voices are not heard. And they are not wrong.
I hope your friends figure out that Trump’s cuts to services will affect them, esp the cuts to medical services and the elimination of scientific research into Alzheimer’s, dementia, cancer, etc.
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They know all that…but they dislike and distrust Democratic politicians even more.
And who can blame them, in view of the long history of how Democratic politicians have betrayed Democratic voters: During his 2008 presidential campaign, Obama pledged to the National Education Association and to nationwide members of the AFL-CIO that he would push through the Employees’ Free Choice Act (EFCA) to restore workers’ full rights to organize and to restrain corporations from their flagrant anti-union activities and retaliations against employees who campaign for unionization.
Had that been done, much of the odious income inequity we see today would never have happened and charter schools would be unionized and far fewer in number.
But almost immediately after he was elected, Obama turned his back on the unions — especially teachers unions — dumped EFCA, and installed Wall Street moguls as his cabinet.
He installed Arne Duncan as his Secretary of Education. Duncan was selected for Obama by the billionaire hedge fund managers who formed the deceptively-named “Democrats for Education Reform” (DFER) whose sole purpose was and is to replace public schools with for-profit charter schools through which the hedge funds could drain billions of dollars away from public schools through devices such as Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs).
Few voters knew that the keynote speaker at the DFER founding celebration was Senate Obama. His entire political career thereafter was funded by DFER billionaires in exchange for his selling out public schools and public school teachers.
Obama was bought-and-paid-for by DFER for whom he went to work undermining public schools and vastly expanding the number of and funding for charter schools, even while blocking NEA efforts to unionize charter schools.
Obama’s most inglorious moment came when he condoned the infamous firing of the entire faculty Central Falls High School in Rhode Island, saying that the firing was proper and justified because the teachers were all incompetent like a great many public school teachers.
And then there’s another “hero” still worshiped by many Democrats: Bill Clinton.
Clinton was also elected with the support of unions whom he pledged his word to fight for worker’s rights and unionization. But, like Obama, once elected he promptly betrayed his union supporters, destroying millions of American union jobs and middle class families with his odious blow job for corporations: The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
In fact, Clinton’s tenure as President became nothing more than a continuation of anti-union/pro-free trade policies that were begun by Republicans Reagan and Bush. Clinton’s list of legislative “accomplishments” after that is a Republican Party wish-list.
Clinton’s 1994 crime bill was a brutal law that included a Republican wish-list of oppressively punitive mandates on mostly non-white offenders, such as unjustifiably long mandatory sentences including an outrageous 100:1 sentencing ratio for drug possession that filled America’s prisons with Black people, condemning millions of Black children to become parentless.
Republicans applauded Clinton’s “war on drugs” laws which became the new Jim Crow laws of the 1990s and beyond.
In 1996, Clinton joined forces with then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, pledging to “end welfare as we know it” and Clinton abolished Aid for Families with Dependent Children, causing countless children to go hungry and without adequate clothing and shelter.
In 1999, Clinton joined with Republicans to gut the Glass-Steagall Act, thereby setting the stage for the Wall Street abuses that directly led to the Great Recession of 2008 in which tens of millions of Americans lost their homes and became impoverished.
And those tens of millions have never recovered. They formed the angry core of Trump’s MAGA support.
Trump would never have become President if it had not been for the betrayals by Obama and Clinton and their Democratic Congresses.
Today’s DNC remains the same and is even now fending off reformers within the Party.
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A sad story of betrayal.
Arne Duncan was selected by the Wall Street guys of DFER.
He was and is a corporate front guy.
I don’t think anyone wrote as scathingly as I did about Obama and Duncan and their betrayal of public schools and unions.
See “The Death and Life of the Great American School System” (2010) and “Reign of Error” (2013).
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What if her spectacle was done deliberately to get us talking about her behavior rather than the files themselves?
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