Lawyer Common Pam Bondi discovered herself on the heart of a firestorm throughout a tense Senate listening to — one which later drew a stinging rebuke from California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who mocked her vanity and refusal to reply questions in a publish that shortly went viral.
Bondi clashed with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat, after he pressed her about President Donald Trump’s ties to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation and whether or not the FBI uncovered compromising materials related to the disgraced financier.
“There’s been public reporting that Jeffrey Epstein confirmed folks pictures of President Trump with half-naked younger ladies. Are you aware if the FBI discovered these pictures of their search of Jeffrey Epstein’s secure or premises or in any other case. Have you ever seen any such factor?” Whitehouse requested a hostile Bondi.
“You recognize Senator Whitehouse you sit right here and make salacious remarks, as soon as once more, making an attempt to slander President Trump, left and proper, once you’re the one who was taking cash from one among Epstein’s closest confidence, I consider, I might be fallacious, appropriate me, Reid Hoffman, who was with Jeffrey Epstein on a number of events,” Bondi snapped again on the senator.
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However she wasn’t by.
“And the senator sitting proper subsequent to you [Illinois Democrat Dick Durbin], tried to dam the flight logs from being launched, but you’re grilling me on President Trump and {a photograph} with Epstein,” she spat out referring to Hoffman, an entrepreneur and the co-founder of LinkedIn who knew Epstein.
However Whitehouse was undaunted.
“The query is, did the FBI discover these pictures which have been mentioned publicly by a witness who claimed Jeffrey Epstein confirmed them to him? You don’t know something about that?” Whitehouse requested.
Bondi simply sat and stared at him.
“OK,” Whitehouse mentioned shifting on.
However Newsom didn’t transfer on.
“A lot for the ‘most clear’ administration,” Newsom posted on X above a clip of the listening to displaying Bondi’s hostility over the questioning and her refusal to inform the reality.
“Pedophile-protector Pam continues to be refusing to reply questions — and nonetheless hiding the Epstein information,” Newsom quipped with an alliteration that makes the clapback straightforward to recollect.
His publish went viral and social media went wild over his new moniker for Bondi and her refusal to reply questions concerning the Epstein information.
A number of authorized of the nickname and callout as they made up their very own, “I believe we are able to all comply with name @PamBondi the brand new PPP Mortgage 2.0.”
“Pam Bondi is a criminal,” X person Jessica Rydill declared. This person had one other to the checklist, “PEDO PAM.”
And one other X person, “Complicit! Maintain her accountable!” she declared.
Some viewers had been longing for the time to return when Bondi and Trump’s administration must face the hearth for his or her actions.
“What we noticed wasn’t oversight, it was vanity. In regular instances she’d be chased out of workplace earlier than dawn. These aren’t regular instances, so the response must be larger. We win all of it. 2026 and 2028. Each Republican who cheers this rot will get retired. Adults solely within the rebuild,” wrote one commentor.
One other declared, “Underneath the following administration, I can’t wait to see her on trial for all of her crimes.”
One assumed the information might containt one thing so scary that freightens each Bondi and Trump.
Given Pam Bondi’s horrified response to being requested if Trump’s {photograph} was in Epstein’s secure. We are able to safely assume that there’s some form of blackmail materials of Trump by Jeffrey Epstein. It could clarify a terrific many issues.
Bondi and the FBI closed the investigation into the Epstein information final spring, saying the case was closed. That’s after Trump and Vice President JD Vance spent the 2024 presidential marketing campaign demanding the discharge of the information.
The MAGA sphere went wild and continues to be demanding Bondi launch the information.
Epstein, a disgraced financier, with a number of the most well-known associates on the planet, together with Trump, killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019, in response to authorities.
Sen. Whitehouse, in the meantime, has denied accepting marketing campaign contributions from Epstein’s pal and main Democratic donor Reid Hoffman.
