🤬"Blustering Bondi” Edition
Pam Bondi showed up to the House Judiciary Committee prepared to do what this Justice Department apparently does best: fight everyone in sight and answer as little as humanly possible.
Faced with questions about bungled redactions in the Epstein files, dead protesters in Minneapolis, and a DOJ that somehow keeps “almost” indicting Democratic lawmakers, Bondi opted for the bold strategy of yelling, deflecting, and calling members of Congress “washed up” while insisting she was there for the victims. When asked to apologize directly to Epstein survivors sitting behind her, she chose instead to blame Merrick Garland and check the clock.
Her performance often felt less like sworn testimony and more like an audition tape for Truth Social. She sparred with Democrats, tangled with Republican Thomas Massie—who pointed out that the DOJ only “fixed” certain redactions after he caught them—and managed to turn even basic follow-ups into shouting matches. At one point, she suggested the committee should really be discussing how great the Dow is doing, as though the Judiciary Committee secretly moonlights as CNBC.
There was one fleeting, almost human moment when Eric Swalwell raised threats against lawmakers’ families and Bondi agreed no one should be targeted. But it was a brief ceasefire in what was otherwise a four-hour reminder that in today’s Washington, surviving the hearing matters more than answering the questions.
If the goal was to demonstrate unflinching loyalty and maximum combativeness to Dear Leader, congratulations: mission accomplished.
Chris Britt - Creators
Matt Davies - Andrews McMeel
Mike Luckovich - Creators
Pedro Molina - Tinyview and Tribune Content Agency
Pat Bagley - cagle.com/bagley
Rob Rogers - Tinyview Comics and Andrews McMeel
Matt Wuerker - Andrews McMeel
Scott Stantis - Tribune Content Agency
Clay Jones - Substack and Claytoonz
The internet recently united around a pressing constitutional question: Did the president just… drop an executive number two?
After a Jan. 29 Oval Office event, social media lit up with breathless speculation that Donald Trump abruptly ended a news conference because he had allegedly soiled himself. Or, as many on social media put it, he “shit his pants.”
Amateur forensic teams immediately got to work analyzing the mysterious sound at the 34-second mark of a Forbes video, with some insisting it was unmistakable evidence of a presidential “incident,” while others suggested it might simply be, you know, a noise.
Screenshots were zoomed, expressions were scrutinized, and Kathryn Burgum and Pam Bondi were briefly drafted into the Zapruder film of Flatulence Theory because they briefly glanced in Trump’s direction. Snopes, bravely stepping into the breach of history, concluded there was no evidence to support the claim. The White House called it “not true.”
And thus America found itself debating the acoustics of the Oval Office instead of, say, the executive order itself.
Or, perhaps, there was a second shitter?
Pam Bondi’s display of loyalty no matter what to Trumpster was on full display yesterday. Given her nasty reactions and emotional fits of anger suggests she is under immense pressure. She’s an embarrassment to the Justice system and to all professional lawyers. She needs to go but no doubt Donald will be very impressed by her performance.
Sorry, this is my 2nd post this morning, all toons are great today!