Pam Bondi has fiery exchange with Democrat lawmaker in Epstein hearing

Описание: Attorney General Pam Bondi launched a passionate defense of President Donald Trump on Wednesday, shouting at Democrats during a combative hearing. She sought to divert criticism of the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, positioning herself as the president's chief protector. Besieged by Epstein questions and accusations of a weaponized Justice Department, Bondi aggressively pivoted in a speech where she mocked Democratic questioners. She also praised Trump’s stock market performance and aligned herself with a president she painted as a victim of past impeachments and investigations. "You sit here and you attack the president and I’m not going to have it," Bondi told the House Judiciary Committee. "I am not going to put up with it." With Epstein’s victims present, she defended her department's handling of the financier's files. She then accused Democrats of using the Epstein files to distract from Trump's successes, despite Republicans initiating the furor and Bondi herself fanning the flames with binders for influencers last year. The hearing quickly devolved into a partisan brawl, with Bondi repeatedly lobbing insults at Democrats while insisting she was not “going to get in the gutter” with them. In one particularly fiery exchange, Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland accused Bondi of refusing to answer his questions, prompting the attorney general to call the top Democrat on the committee a “washed-up loser lawyer — not even a lawyer.”

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