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Republican Rep. Thomas Massie roasted Attorney General Pam Bondi after she showed up on Capitol Hill with prepared insults to lob at critics while refusing to answer questions about Jeffrey Epstein. 

For hours while being grilled by lawmakers, Bondi repeatedly flipped through her binder while attacking lawmakers who dared to challenge her over the Justice Department’s botched handling of the documents on the pedophile.

“A funny thing about Bondi’s insults to members of Congress who had serious questions: Staff literally gave her flash cards with individualized insults, but she couldn’t memorize them, so you can see her shuffle through them to find the flash-cards-insult that matches the member,” Massie wrote on X on Wednesday afternoon.

The Kentucky lawmaker and regular Trump critic, who forced the vote to release the Epstein files, was one of the only GOP members to challenge Bondi over the Epstein probe.

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[–] 6stringringer@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 minutes ago

So umm are we gonna “Cash her outside?”

[–] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 1 points 13 minutes ago

Given they are the same tired insults Trump throws since 2016, her memory must be terrible to need flash cards.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 minutes ago

She couldn't remember a few insults! So she's actually not playing being a dumb blonde then. Wow.

Does she know that ignorance of laws -and stupidity- is not a credible defence?

[–] Innerworld@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

“This is not a game, secretary.”

“I’m Attorney General.”

“My apologies, I couldn’t tell.”

GG…

[–] UltraBlack@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Bondi pisses me the fuck off. What is this fod damn child's play

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 4 hours ago
[–] RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 hours ago
[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 24 points 5 hours ago

If anyone else is curious, I looked up those files listed in the picture. It was interesting to see what Rep. Jayapal was going after. Multiple files are directly related to the structure of Epstein's organization.

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00659212.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01930501.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01930501.pdf (see note 1, below)

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02504630.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00211240.pdf (see note 2, below)

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00774231.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01660622.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01682078.pdf


Note 1: The original file has been removed but was included in this later file; the first EFTA number, the one on Bondi's list, is visible in the lower right.

Note 2: This was a mistake on Bondi's hand-typed report, which lists the file as "EFTA211214" -- I did a keyword search on Epstein victim list and the results all pointed to a particular email chain, of which the primary email was labeled EFTA00211240. This is the correct number, not the one on Bondi's list.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 125 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

No contempt charges = no change in behaviour.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

No fear for life = no change in behavior

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 minutes ago

Both of these can issues can be rectified...

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Exactly. No MAGA cares about contempt charges; quite the opposite, they'd wear it like a badge of honor.

But still, one has to start somewhere. Or everywhere at the same time.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 58 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

"It is totally inappropriate and against the separations of powers for the DOJ to surveil us as we search the Epstein files,” Jayapal wrote on X. “Bondi showed up today with a burn book that held a printed search history of exactly what emails I searched. That is outrageous and I intend to pursue this and stop this spying on members.”

What is so wild is that Lindsey got his panties in a total wad over the phone records of key Republicans being pulled for who called who, when, and for how long - not the content of the conversations or the texts - in relation the TERRORISM OF J6. A real crime that threatened our country's very foundations.

Meanwhile, this bitch is having people conducting oversight on the crimes that SHE IS COVERING UP being monitored?

I wonder if Lindsey and the like are going to have their panties bunched up over this?

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 17 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Pretty sure that more than anything else at this point, Lindsey is terrified of going to prison. And not just for J6.

Keep in mind that the files the representatives were allowed to see were still not unredacted, according to Jamie Raskin, who called them "slightly-less-redacted" in his statement about what he was allowed to see and the hoops he had to jump through to do so.

It's still entirely possible that the gentleman from South Carolina is well represented in those pages.

[–] RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

I met the man when I was about 16 or 17. Oh, he's in there, no doubt.

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 7 hours ago

Not to mention all the horrific surveillance bills they have supported over the years…. Theyare mad it’s happening to them

[–] DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 5 points 6 hours ago

Didn't Trump also claim that Obama witetapped his phone during the election? Wasn't that what he called "Obamagate"?

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 13 points 6 hours ago

A genuinely, thoroughly reprehensible piece of human effluent. If she has kids they almost certainly hate her. Her lonely aged years will probably be the only consequence she faces for her despicable behaviour, but I guess it's better than nothing.

[–] 2piradians@lemmy.world 29 points 7 hours ago

You mean having a cabinet staffed with incompetent, loyalist, performative fuckwads yields public displays of buffoonery? Shocked, I tell you.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 32 points 7 hours ago

I loved that Moskowitz highlighted the fact that she's using a burn book.

I'm sure the Adult Mean Girl hated that.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 37 points 7 hours ago

You could not make this up. It’s ludicrous.

[–] Pratai@piefed.ca 10 points 6 hours ago

What’s sad about this, is that it’s not even a new low for her. She’s done FAR worse.

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago
[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 hours ago