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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOkay, I'm just going to go ahead and say it
The behavior we saw today out of Pam Bondi is not normal. She yelled, lied, accused people of a variety of things without any basis of proof, and deflected verifiable facts concerning Trump and numerous members of his administration. She shouted over elected officials who were trying to speak and dismissed questions she did not want to address.
To say she was unhinged is putting it mildly.
She had no sense of tact, decorum or professional demeanor. Logic, reason and ethics were absent in her performance. It is disturbing and alarming that someone with such inability to conduct herself in a professional, reasonable, controlled manner should be in a position of authority.
It was frankly chilling. This should be of concern to all of us.
Brother Buzz
(39,732 posts)The perfect marmalade shartcannon stooge
Prairie_Seagull
(4,629 posts)Fantassstic. haha
tulipsandroses
(8,194 posts)The problem is not Bondi. Its America. The people that saw this obnoxious behavior from trump and company and thought, yes, they should hold power. AND even when out of power, they will go on to high powered jobs out of government. The companies that will hire them won't give a damn. Americans will just go about their day instead of making companies associated with these folks understand that they don't get to profit when they hire people that abuse their power.
chouchou
(2,958 posts)Amaryllis
(11,124 posts)counter the fascists and our numbers are growing. I highly recommend checking out INdivisible. There are groups alll over the country working for democracy. THere are two things that will turn the tide: Community and Action.
Every month at my Indivisible meeting new people are showing up and they are looking for ways to get active.
Mr.Bee
(1,724 posts)She's deranged. Brainwashed by FoxNews. Time To Get Rid of IT!
whathehell
(30,402 posts)It is not "America" as a whole. At it's worst, it's been barely half of American voters, and if you've been watching the polls, not to mention the HUGE Anti-Trump pushback occurring all over the country, you'd know that even that number has diminished significantly.
PuraVidaDreamin
(4,513 posts)Something truly wrong upstairs.
GoCubsGo
(34,772 posts)Don't really need a psych evaluation to tell us that. But, yes. She's no doubt sick in the head, to put it mildly.
mdbl
(8,325 posts)eppur_se_muova
(41,392 posts)GoCubsGo
(34,772 posts)Last edited Thu Feb 12, 2026, 10:31 AM - Edit history (1)
No brainwashing needed. No control here. She does it willingly.
eppur_se_muova
(41,392 posts)"Oh, no, I see you already have ... Really ?!? Count me in !!"
yellow dahlia
(5,287 posts)Scott Alan Swaggerty
(227 posts)Attilatheblond
(8,540 posts)Must be on really thin ice with Trump. Likely she has a lot of dirty deeds to hide from her time in FL state government. Probably knows if she fails in defending Trump, she will be on the chopping block and possibly outed for a whole lotta bad back room deals.
Only person who probably enjoyed today's screech-a-thon was Kristi Noem because the Banshee Bondi took some media heat off her and her brown shirts.
Bondi calling Raskin a washed up lawyer was projection on the most revealing scale. He's should send her that bit of video when she is cooling her heels in a federal prison soon.
usonian
(24,189 posts)Any who do should be humiliated.
With the "debt penalty"
harumph
(3,146 posts)The bus driver is a maniac and we're chained to the seats.
global1
(26,502 posts)paying attention to the question being asked of her. Whenever she didn't want to answer or couldn't answer a question - she would pour thru the pages of these binders to come up with some smart aleck retort to put down or shout down the questioner.
Where does Tr**p come up with these women? Noem; Bondi, Gabbard and why do these women worship the ground that he walks on?
Somebody needs to shut her up!!!
yellow dahlia
(5,287 posts)Codifer
(1,189 posts)I had muted the TV but whenever I glanced at the screen it was easy for me to tell a republican was kissing her ass with glowing praise for her. For them she is all attentive and ass-wiggly and smiling. She saves the impertinent "I am too fucking important to listen to you" paper shuffling act for democrats. She is a terrible actress.
Trump found her in the same dark recess of hell where
Hitler found Ilsa Koch.
Evil in a blouse (tastefully with two buttons undone).
NEOH
(261 posts)It would be more fitting if she wore it upside down
vapor2
(4,140 posts)Hypocrites ......who won't get into heaven
Attilatheblond
(8,540 posts)There seems to be some pretty sketchy females in the cabinet. Easy to keep them fighting for trump if they know they crash and burn with him.
Mira
(22,670 posts)As you observed, the disrespect extended to Democratic questioners was what enraged me without end. Once called on for their turn they were immediately not afforded the dignity of their office. She showed purposeful disdain by making it obvious she was not listening. Through the ongoing flipping through her papers she underscored it, as well as evidencing her lack of breeding. It made me think of a whip. I don't like admitting that.
yaesu
(9,138 posts)Ilsa, the she wolf of the SS
mahatmakanejeeves
(68,861 posts)erronis
(23,222 posts)Reminds me of one of my children when they were 13. (And she stayed that way until she was a mother with her own snotty children.)
Nittersing
(8,223 posts)The fact that the entire GOP is onboard as well as many citizens...
Yes. Chilling and concerning.
sop
(17,994 posts)
yellow dahlia
(5,287 posts)Not the best people, but the opposite of that. Match the job up to the person least qualified to hold the position - antithetical to the required experience and skills.
It is a slap in the face of the American people. It's on purpose.
Codifer
(1,189 posts)Wouldn't they make great cell mates? All those disturbed egos in the same cell would make great TV.
Well, for a day or two anyway.
yellow dahlia
(5,287 posts)Survivor meets Real World meets Jail.
Totally Tunsie
(11,685 posts)johnnyfins
(3,614 posts)They are ALL ghouls. Seriously.
CTyankee
(67,928 posts)dutch777
(4,982 posts)...just the new normal for the next three years? Other than contempt of Congress I am unaware of any meaningful penalty. And given that complaint would be referred to DOJ seems unlikely there would be much done if anything. Even a perjury charge would go the same way. I suppose impeachment but that will have to wait until 2027 and unless we get 60 seats in the Senate that is basically just a performative exercise.
Blue Full Moon
(3,300 posts)She has no children. What happens to children is no concern to her. She has no love in her.
Arazi
(8,788 posts)It worked for her. She managed to contain the Epstein fallout. Mission accomplished as far as the GOP is concerned.
The hearing was a total loss and she got out without any discernible scratches.
Dems need a different approach. This was a total repeat of Bondis last appearance and obviously they didnt learn a single thing on managing her shit
Cheezoholic
(3,585 posts)All of this gang believe they are entitled to everything and the rest of us are unworthy. It is arrogance on a Roman Medieval level. The rest of us should be happy they let us live and walk in streets full of chamber pot waste whilst they enjoy the wealth and riches ripped from our backs. When we ask for even the most basic of human rights we are told to STFU.
yellow dahlia
(5,287 posts)Maybe they aren't always the creme de la creme, but at least they tend to fake it, or at least behave.
lastlib
(27,837 posts)They are absent from her LIFE. She only knows anger and hatred.
Scott Alan Swaggerty
(227 posts)Her behavior was almost as bad as the job market.
canetoad
(20,439 posts)There's always an analogue in the Nazis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Freisler
peggysue2
(12,449 posts)That was an absolutely disgraceful and unprofessional performance which in itself underscores who Bondi's audience truly was: The Grifter-in-Chief.
Bondi has the title of Attorney General but it's all performance to project the reality Trump demands and to protect the throne from all accusation and criticism. The AG wasn't even capable of turning and facing the victims in the room because they are actually obstacles to her real objective--expressing the same disdain and dismissal her Boss has voiced and deflecting attention to other matters.
The stock market went over 50,000, for instance.
Wut? This is taking Trump's infamous weave to brand new heights.
Good news? The theatrics did not work. Bondi simply humiliated herself. Bad news? She utterly disgraced the Department of Justice on live TV.
catchnrelease
(2,143 posts)I wanted to point out how bondi was so contemptuous of and rude to the victims when they were asked to stand, and if they would still like to speak to the DOJ. She never bothered to turn around and acknowledge them, answer other than to say something like 'call the hotline', etc. She's a total trump stooge/puppet with no idea of what she's doing other than what she's told to do. All of her antics today were outrageous but her treatment of the women standing behind her was inexcusable.
walkingman
(10,539 posts)UpInArms
(54,495 posts)Audience of one
Skittles
(170,315 posts)behaving like that in ANY other job and not being terminated
Fiendish Thingy
(22,494 posts)everyonematters
(4,051 posts)The reason for her existence in the administration, is Trump's immigration policy. Everything justifies the accomplishment of deporting thousands of people, the lies, the coverups, the abuses, the killings. It even means embarrassing herself in front of congress. She knows she can't defend the actions of her, the DOJ, and Trump, so she turns it into a clown show. The end justifies the means.
D_Master81
(2,417 posts)Your 2nd paragraph sums up the perfect Trump appointee to me. No tact or sense of decorum no professionalism, logic or reason.
Srkdqltr
(9,562 posts)mahina
(20,551 posts)Teaching a new generation of people to be their worst.
Ugh.
Ford_Prefect
(8,552 posts)She exists because he put her there and she has No Exit from that position which doesn't put her in legal jeopardy many times over.
Buddyzbuddy
(2,337 posts)Not the substance or legitimacy of the questions or her reluctance to answer them.
The show must go on, as it does. She is playing to the public and the Felon. MAGA loves this Administration's disdain for Congress so she scores points. As a fringe benefit, she leaves the left feeling frustrated by not accomplishing anything of any substance. It's essentially a dog and pony show because there are no repercussions.
That should change next January if November goes as hoped.
She and they will continue but there should be repercussions, hopefully.
jmbar2
(7,805 posts)Every outburst was deliberate and planned. She came with written oppo on each democratic questioner, and had "Whatabouts" planned as responses for to questions.
It was purely theater to derail the hearing. She is extremely skilled and practiced at it, and it is so bizarre, no one quite knows what to do with it.
Moskowitz came closest to recognizing it, being prepared, and catching her offguard with his comment about her oppo folders and his Olympic "scorecard".
MorbidButterflyTat
(4,322 posts)What repercussions were you expecting? A Perry Mason type weeping confession complete with pleas for forgiveness?
She came across as the corrupt defense attorney for Piggy. And everybody knows it, whether they admit it or not.
Mme. Defarge
(8,938 posts)Madam?
Grim Chieftain
(1,449 posts)Echoes of history.
RecoveringJournalist
(223 posts)This needs to be forced to stop when Dems take congress back. When they win they need to go NUCLEAR. Impeach Trump, Vance and the entire cabinet. Force Musk to testify. And the punishments need to be HUGE AND ENFORCED. Anything less than this is unacceptable!
ariadne0614
(2,156 posts)Where does she think the funds for her paycheck come from?
Joinfortmill
(20,542 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(177,056 posts)Bondi was being an asshole because trump wants her to be an asshole
MorbidButterflyTat
(4,322 posts)I remember a former Attorney General flipping off Congress while "testifying."
.

I bet he thought he was so sly.
Criminals in power are always cause for concern.
Wounded Bear
(64,025 posts)MW67
(113 posts)Check out her boss , The President, you know the one who gives her marching orders, he's a totally classless delusional fruit loop, the same one he's always been and they elected him twice!! That's what scares me, Bondi should face accountability in the future, maybe in a big way but her boss never will
slightlv
(7,601 posts)but it reflects horribly on our gender, especially at a time when we're fighting to retain the rights and privileges we've worked decades to achieve.
When we see daily that the emotions and actions of prominent men cannot be controlled... by them or by their party leaders... we have so much evidence of women doing the same jobs with successful professionalism and authority. Then, to be subjected to outbursts like what comes out of Bondi, it's demeaning to the rest of us women.
Beyond that, who in the world could trust anything that comes out of her? She lies, she pontificates, and she has to dress "just so" for every photoshoot that she can capture - which happens to be anytime she thinks a event is "of importance."
She is absolutely the worst symbol of female leadership... and just one of many, both male and female, we have in this administration. I am so appalled.
underpants
(195,648 posts)It pleases the audience of one she performs for.
dem4decades
(13,892 posts)WmChris
(677 posts)A normal member of the orange ass kissers society. They are arrogantly ignorant and damn proud of it. If you're somewhat normal and don't buy their bullshit you have trump derangement syndrome as she yelled out in the hearing like one of the 8th grade mean girl click which she probably belonged to and apparently never matured out of
AverageOldGuy
(3,590 posts). . . if one is a NORMAL person, then, no, her behavior was wildly abnormal, vile, far below the dignity of a US Attorney General.
However, if one is Trump or a Trump lackey, then, this is perfectly normal. Worse, Trump expects this behavior.
LymphocyteLover
(9,588 posts)Harker
(17,581 posts)BattleRow
(2,159 posts)soulless...
calimary
(89,345 posts)duckworth969
(1,307 posts)Shes a soulless harpy through and through.
Harker
(17,581 posts)CommonHumanity
(354 posts)Just like her sicko nihilist boss
Pisces
(6,184 posts)incompetence at every level. She should resign after this performance, but the truth is Trump is patting her on the back right now. It is sad and disgusting how all norms and professionalism have been thrown out the window. We may also have a KGB agent (Tulsi) in the administration. What a disgrace to our country!!!
orangecrush
(29,462 posts)Beringia
(5,423 posts)
Grim Chieftain
(1,449 posts)Full disclosure here, my husband set up my DU account and gave me the Grim Chieftain screen name. Not my choice, but it is what it is.
Beringia
(5,423 posts)The Blue Flower
(6,411 posts)She disrespects us all when she's so rude to our congressional representatives. Doesn't give a f*** about the job or the country. Why is she still employed?
indusurb
(312 posts)When you don't have the moral high ground, when you can't win an argument with facts, you shout and scream and make a scene, trying to drown others out. You see this on Fox, Newsmax, in the WH press room, on hate radio. It is the MAGAt way
UpInArms
(54,495 posts)We are living through a 10 alarm fire situation
She is just a smalltzy piece of lying shit
Everyone has her number
her pretty package will not save her
Justice is coming
aggiesal
(10,649 posts)One Rep. called her out about her "OppoRes".
This is the second time I've seen her in front of a congressional committee, and she's done the same thing twice.
She was never planning on answer any significant question, she was there to poke the bear with her OppoRes.
cbabe
(6,439 posts)questions but listed all the facts and crimes.
CousinIT
(12,383 posts)... a snarling, rabid, bitch. As she was trained to be.
bobalew
(417 posts)All their behaviors Smack of drug addiction. Specifically the delusional rantings & actions associated with methamphetamines. I think that tightly aligns with their behavior patterns. It's just a thought...
zok21
(1 post)She's out of control.
Grim Chieftain
(1,449 posts)Ilsa
(64,055 posts)acting this way. especially if it's only for Krasnov.
Or brain damaged.
dooner
(1,227 posts)Jasmine Crockett (Dem, Tx) didn't waste time asking Pam any questions. She spent her time time ripping on Pam for being an incompetent, law-breaking boot-licker. This seemed like a smart approach given that for hours Pam hadn't answered any questions from Dems, instead she just snarled out an immature and snarky refusal to accept the question.
quakerboy
(14,790 posts)I hear she was perfectly nice to most of the republicans. She CAN act in a professional manner. She just felt no need to do so.
Which is, in my opinion, far more chilling in its implications than incompetence or unhingedness would be.
Javaman
(65,445 posts)just wait for when it's the orange pedo's time.
buckle up.
Abstractartist
(431 posts)And who gets away with doing the same thing. She is trump is a skirt. She say the same things he says, acts like him. She will always cover up for trump. He owns her, he has shit on her, she was most likely on the Epstein list, the island, the plane, etc. She has very little redeeming value and qualities, but will stick around until the big turnaround of 2028-29
FakeNoose
(40,826 posts)She can't answer any "yes or no" question with a "yes or no" answer, because then she would incriminate herself. She can't display any fear or lack of confidence, because then Chump would decide she's weak and ineffective. She can't admit to any mistake or error in judgment, again because Chump is her audience of One, and he never admits mistakes. So the only thing she can do effectively is to go on the attack at every opportunity. That's the reason for all of this.
It's not normal behavior ... not at all.
But this is all for nothing because Chump will fire her anyway. As soon as he can find a smart but controllable male lawyer to replace her with.
Emile
(41,501 posts)Be The Light
(142 posts)because she kisses donalds ass and sucks his dick
AverageJoe
(2,426 posts)None of her rage at the Democrats was real, just as none of her professionalism in answering Republican questions was real. She is completely devoid of honesty, humanity, decency or ethical grounding. Its not that shes angry or unhinged. She is simply an ice cold, inhuman operative of the regime.
Saoirse9
(3,939 posts)Amphetamines?
3catwoman3
(28,943 posts)
to womankind specifically, and to humankind in general.
What a horrible person.
