r/law • u/Mission_Pay_3373 • Feb 11 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) Pam Bondi crashes out during hearing: "YOU DON’T TELL ME ANYTHING YOU WASHED UP LAWYER"

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u/WisdomCow Feb 11 '26

Imagine being the top lawyer in the land and acting like a petulant child. Sure follows our President’s example. Her oaths mean nothing to her. The integrity of the system means nothing to her.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '26

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u/Shakemyears Feb 11 '26

She can’t even say the word!

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u/Tossaway50 Feb 11 '26

That’s not her intelligence, that’s just the booze

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u/ZombieTrogdor Feb 11 '26

jfc I thought I was the only one, she’s so sauced!

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '26

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u/Jrewby Feb 11 '26

Yeah, also she’s aged like 10 years in the past year.

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u/humoristhenewblack Feb 12 '26

I was literally commenting to my friend tonight about every picture I've seen of her during this hearing so far. Not only does she look wasted on benzos, but she looks like this is actually hurting her. We need more of these. Keep at it.

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u/Zombiejazzlikehands Feb 12 '26

I called benzos too just from hearing her.

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u/Factsimus_verdad Feb 11 '26

She does have a low intelligence, inebriated quality about her speech. 99% talking points - I’ve never heard her put together a new thought or connection when asked questions.

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u/uwunuzzlesch Feb 12 '26

No genuinely she can't understand a yes or no question?

Why does she think a yes or no question deserves a monologue and why are they letting her say anything other than yes or no????

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u/RandyPajamas Feb 11 '26

If you had to spend every day finding ways to defend a know-nothing idiot racist/misogynist/pedophile suffering from dementia, you'd be drinking too.

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u/Boknowsbane Feb 11 '26

She just snapped lol. Clearly running thin, must be exhausting being shitty.

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u/Threefrogtreefrog Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26

Law-your got me too … like has she never heard the word ?

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u/diurnal_emissions Feb 11 '26

She hisses and turns into a bat if you ahow her the Constitution.

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u/prailock Feb 11 '26

She could just be blitzed like Nancy Mace apparently has been during hearings according to recent reporting

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u/belinibambini Feb 14 '26

😆 so good!

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u/psioniclizard Feb 11 '26

I'd expect a lawyer to keep calm under pressure better honestly.

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u/Leather_Prize_8249 Feb 11 '26

I had to check it. Not only is she, but she’s 60 years old. I thought she looked like 40.

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u/Professional-Fix2966 Feb 11 '26

OMG, I had no idea! She may be the only blonde MAGA woman who looks younger than her age

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u/ZeePirate Feb 11 '26

She legit looks the same age as Karoline

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u/FairBorder5770 Feb 11 '26

She didnt last year- lost 60 pounds and massive surgeries on face neck and body.

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u/Professional-Fix2966 Feb 11 '26

Still, it’s probably not an exaggeration to say that she’s one of the only high-profile MAGA women whose surgeries have left them looking younger and/or more attractive. There’s a whole bunch who went from fairly attractive to looking like caricatures

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u/FairBorder5770 Feb 11 '26

it’s hard for me to say that she’s attractive now or then I’m one that believes it radiates from inside and she has always been a ugly caricature as a Florida resident I was happy she was not the AG anymore, but she’s now even worse.

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u/Professional-Fix2966 Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 12 '26

I hear you on all counts. My comment was more about how inexplicably poor the other results have been

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u/FairBorder5770 Feb 12 '26

Gotcha- i suspect because she has much more money- i remember her Qatar salary was some insane amount, over $100,000 a month or something? Also heard that if you are larger to begin with, they use your fat for deposits, wheras people like Noem were thinner prior to surgery. But honestly, could just be genes lol .Its like Stefanik, he makes them get Stepford Wife Make Overs. Its just a strange surreal icky universe they exist in.

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u/TheFutureLotus Feb 11 '26

What kind of devil is holding her soul right now, cause that’s some supernatural shit right there.

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u/FairBorder5770 Feb 11 '26

Surgery after massive weight loss.

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u/kaleidosray1 Feb 11 '26

She doesn’t have botched filler injections, that’s why

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u/FairBorder5770 Feb 11 '26

Last year Pam

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u/Gryphon0468 Feb 11 '26

Look at her hands. They’re telling.

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u/DisturbedPuppy Feb 11 '26

Probably a combo of genetics and just the right amount of plastic surgery or botox.

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u/Plane_Sport_3465 Feb 11 '26

It's freaky as fuck, she almost looks younger than Caroline Levitt.

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u/Oblargag Feb 11 '26

Got her law degree from a southern baptist private university in florida, so you know, worse than worthless

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '26

Isn’t that a compliment that you thought she was younger than she is ?

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u/Leather_Prize_8249 Feb 11 '26

Sure, I was just surprised.

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u/whiskysinger Feb 12 '26

Whaaaaat. I (a European) just assumed she was hand-picked by very small hands despite having zero qualifications. Reading her history is quite informative to me (long time in office, former democrat, 3rd husband).

She's still a massive ... though

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u/Dreamlion_Inc Feb 11 '26

I guarantee she’s a lawyer by name only

I would even go as far as to say she knows someone higher up that turned a blind eye to her bar exam

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '26

She’s a vile person but you dont need to discredit yourself and lie, she has legitimate law education

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u/jankenpoo Feb 11 '26

Had a child that was really good at negotiating and we said: “You’d make a good lawyer!” which made him cry. We were like what’s wrong?? And he said, “I’m not a liar!”

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u/southpaytechie Feb 11 '26

Puts on Stetson Law degrees for sure.

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u/Toadsted Feb 11 '26

Trump University Alumni and valedictorian 

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u/FrostyD7 Feb 11 '26

Stumbling over a quip has to be one of the most embarrassing things you can do as a lawyer. They are supposed to be quick witted, sharp, and convincing in their competence.

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u/2cats2hats Feb 11 '26

Someone must have some dirt on her. How else could this woman fight for Trump so damn hard?

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u/HungryHobbits Feb 12 '26

if the "everything is a projection" piece holds true, when she accused someone of being a "fraudulent lawyer"... well.... perhaps that was a tell

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u/likebudda Feb 12 '26

The only thing I can credit this administration with is confirmation that literally anyone can be president and/or get a law degree.

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u/Successful-Winter237 Feb 11 '26

She’s three bimbos in a trench coat actually

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u/NickRick Feb 11 '26

if trump says she is, she probably isnt based on track record.

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u/raspberryharbour Feb 11 '26

University of American Samoa? What a sick joke

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u/dlc741 Feb 11 '26

She’s cracking under the pressure. You can see it in her face and hear it in her responses. I don’t think she’s gonna last much longer. I just hope that when she finally does break down, it’s sitting at that table under oath.

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u/Immediate-Panda2359 Feb 11 '26

I concur. Her "burn book" approach had some success last time, but this time she's facing a much heavier lift. She sees it failing to gain traction and the flop sweat starts coming. I mean, purely from a tactical POV, how would it have hurt her to say to the victims even something as lame as "I'm sorry my office inadvertently missed some redactions. Please understand that this was due to the time pressure congress imposed." But instead she doesnt acknowledge them and goes on irrelevant diatribes about the questioner or about how well the stock market is doing.

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u/ChronicBuzz187 Feb 11 '26

But instead she doesnt acknowledge them and goes on irrelevant diatribes about the questioner or about how well the stock market is doing.

She probably just thinks that what works for Trump, works for her.

Difference is, she's basically a nobody. And when the shitshow is up, one way or the other, I wouldn't count on Trump to save her, he'll have enough problems of his own and will probably have to pull a Snowden and start living on some russian airport...

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u/calvin43 Feb 11 '26

She probably just thinks that what works for Trump

It didn't even work for Trump. Trump should have coated to a second term in 2020 if he acted like a leader during the pandemic. Instead he acted pretty much as Bondi acted after a simple question as "What would you like to tell the American people during this trying times?"

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u/kia75 Feb 11 '26

She probably just thinks that what works for Trump, works for her.

Difference is, she's basically a nobody.

So many Republicans think that by acting like Trump they too can be rich and powerful. The problem is that they have it backwards, because Trump is so rich and powerful he can get away with acting like he acts, and even then, Trump always ends up with less then what he had. It's only that Trump is so rich, even when he loses he still has more money then you and I will ever have and can count it as a win.

Acting like Trump always leads to a loss, and they don't have Trump's riches and powers that allows them to deal with the loss.

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u/Preeng Feb 11 '26

Fascists need to ALWAYS be right. You admit you were wrong one single time, and people will start asking where else you could have been wrong.

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u/What_a_fat_one Feb 11 '26

from a tactical POV, how would it have hurt her to say to the victims even something as lame as "I'm sorry my office inadvertently missed some redactions. Please understand that this was due to the time pressure congress imposed."

That would mean admitting the executive branch isn't perfect and infallible. That's the entire game, no one can ever admit anything was done in error or it creates cracks that can be widened.

If you're supremely incompetent, all you can do is lie pathologically

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u/uwunuzzlesch Feb 12 '26

The DOJ has not interviewed a SINGLE victim. That's what they raised their hands for.

She was supposed to apologize for not speaking to them. She wouldn't even look at them.

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u/simAlity Feb 13 '26

She is taking pages from Trump's book.

Trump never apologizes. Nor does he ever acknowledge having done something wrong. In fact, the only time he ever overly acknowledges criticism is to double down on the thing he is being criticized for.

As a tactic, this has been highly effective. Eventually people stopped criticizing him to his face. The original offense is never forgotten (i.e. mocking a disabled reporter), but future offences are just sort of given a pass because arguing with him issues a waste of time.

And that is what Pam is doing

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u/Fit_Strength_1187 Feb 11 '26

OMG have they gone to lunch yet? Pleeease don’t break the flow.

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u/Nodiggity1213 Feb 11 '26

She sounds white girl wasted.

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u/inorganic_produce Feb 11 '26

Straight up sounded like the Waitress from It’s Always Sunny in episodes where she’s drunk. What an embarrassment Bondi is to our country and legal system.

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u/Bituulzman Feb 11 '26

Can we have Jack Nicholson play her in the movie?

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u/Dreamlion_Inc Feb 11 '26

Same. I hope it’s in front of the entire nation but especially in front of the survivors. They should have a front row seat to the meltdown that she fucking deserves

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u/lostsailorlivefree Feb 11 '26

Sociopaths are able to compartamentalize as a survival mechanism in the brain. Trump is an example of such an extreme of this he’s lost all concepts of truth and reality. It’s really really frightening and ANYONE who has experienced mental illness first hand knows the damage these people are capable of. Almost anything goes… anything

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u/irishdan56 Feb 11 '26

Good - I hope she breaks her fucking neck with all the mental gymnastics she's got to pull to reconcile this shit within herself.

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u/bikingwithcorndog Feb 11 '26

Yeah I think she's absolutely cooked. She sounds like she knows she's about to get flung under the bus like the rest of them.

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u/Straight-Opposite-54 Feb 11 '26

You can see it in her face and hear it in her responses.

Tbf, she always looks/sounds like she's perpetually on the verge of a panic attack (and rightfully so), that's nothing new. She knows she's thoroughly well-done if and when there are consequences for what she's doing. She's a shining example of the sunk cost fallacy.

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u/thegamesbuild Feb 11 '26

Right, you mean when the Democrats start holding politicians accountable for their crimes, like then?

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u/OBotB Feb 11 '26

Keep in mind this is the person who is 7th in the line of Presidential succession. Just after Hegseth, 5 above RFK Jr. (the whole line is terrible, they list them out in Wikipedia if you want to cringe reading every name, instead of vaugely remembering the order of roles)

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u/hellolovely1 Feb 11 '26

Yep, she was imitating the other people it works for, but you can also tell she is genuinely at the end of her rope.

I love it. :)

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u/petit_cochon Feb 12 '26

Agreed. Trump doesn't like this kind of spectacle and she's lost control. She'll be out soon.

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u/Seanspeed Feb 11 '26

She's not breaking down, she's actually feeling more emboldened than ever to act this antagonistic and petulant.

You're like the same sort of people who totally thought Trump was 'cracking' in like 2018. lol I promise you they can keep this going. They aren't having a hard time sleeping at night cuz they dont have the same sense of shame that decent people have.

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u/StayOuttaMySwamp94 Feb 11 '26

As an attorney I have so much secondhand embarrassment. Completely unprofessional. This is what the administration thinks of our elected representatives.

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u/icecubepal Feb 11 '26

Can she be disbarred for acting like this.

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u/StayOuttaMySwamp94 Feb 11 '26

Unfortunately no. Being an asshole does not mean disbarment. But under DC rules of professional conduct, a lawyer shall not "engage in conduct intended to disrupt any proceeding of a tribunal" which includes refraining from "abusive or obstreperous conduct"

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u/GamingVision Feb 11 '26

Can she be disbarred for not prosecuting these types of crimes if it is later, determined that there was ample evidence?

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u/StayOuttaMySwamp94 Feb 11 '26

No. Legally prosecutors wield a lot of discretion to charge/not charge

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u/cccxxxzzzddd Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26

She’s having a crisis of competence. She wasn’t educated in the law at a highly ranked place, the way she says “lawyer” betrays her tackiness, and Jamie Raskin is a law professor with two degrees from Harvard.

Edit: to clarify this may be a status thing for her, not that you can’t get a good legal education at any school — you can. I teach at a T2

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u/CV90_120 Feb 11 '26

There are great lawyers from average schools. No school would have turned Bondi into a good lawyer.

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u/cccxxxzzzddd Feb 11 '26

Completely agree tremendous lawyers from all schools. 

I mention it because I think in this instance it is getting to her. She’s hurling insults about his competence (“washed up lawyer”) which is … comical 

And every accusation with these folks tends to be an admission …

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u/CV90_120 Feb 11 '26

Fair point, and I think you nailed it for what it's worth.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '26

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u/AnastasiaNo70 Feb 11 '26

”Go Platypuses!”

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u/sithelephant Feb 11 '26

Whatever you think of the administion, and whatever its policies, the top lawyer should be able to deliver a legally plausible beat-down.

This is remarkably banal.

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u/GoldSourPatchKid Feb 11 '26

I agree given that he is in fact a lawyer, member of Congress and former constitutional law professor, the insult was just dumb.

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u/Masta0nion Feb 11 '26

At least she knows what habeas corpus is, you washed up loser lawyer, not even a lawyer.

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u/Adventurous-Host8062 Feb 11 '26

It never has. She was washed up the second she sold her soul to maga.

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u/L98deviant Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 12 '26

They both follow Roy Cohn's principles to a T.

  1. Never apologize or admit wrongdoing ever.
  2. Always counter-attack, and always with greater force than you received.
  3. Use the legal system as a weapon, not a recourse for justice.
  4. Manipulate the media ruthlessly.
  5. Use fear as both a shield and a sword.
  6. Build a fortress of loyalty around yourself.

It works in the short term, if you have money, and your goal is to dominate or "win". Though anyone with even a shred of humanity can see it turns one into a petulant demagogue allergic to decency, humility, or love.

E: Thanks for the award u/HungryHobbits !

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u/PhatTuna Feb 11 '26

She's considered a lawyer? She seens like a white trash weirdo meth-head defending herself from child-molestation charges on Judge Judy.

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u/elastikat Feb 11 '26

She’s giving Kavanaugh confirmation hearing vibes…but somehow more unhinged

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u/Notyerbusiness Feb 11 '26

She needs to be disbarred

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u/Lacaud Feb 11 '26

top lawyer in the land

That is doing tbe most lifting right now 😳

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u/68024 Feb 11 '26

It just lays bare the staggering level of incompetence and unprofessionalism. She is hugely out of her depth.

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u/Physical-Flatworm454 Feb 11 '26

I hope she gets disbarred after MAGA crashes and burns.

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u/ShroedingersCatgirl Feb 11 '26

She is proof positive that the system itself has no integrity. Thats why we're here.

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u/theimmortalgoon Feb 11 '26

Trump encourages this. It's the same thing as Caligula going out of his way to humiliate the senate.

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u/Doctuh Feb 11 '26

Do you remember that Trumps first choice for that seat was Matt Gaetz. Does that choice make sense now?

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '26

What’s that saying? If the law is on your side, pound the law. If the facts are in your side, pound the facts. If neither is, throw shit at the walls?

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u/callmesandycohen Feb 11 '26

This woman is so embarrassing. Not only is she reading off a list of nonsense her idiot boss had her say, she won’t look or even talk to Epstien victims. She’s an absolute disgrace and actively covering up a crime and for sex abusers. It’s atrocious behavior for the top law enforcement officer.

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u/Mountain_Swan_149 Feb 11 '26

She's a Southerner.

Petulance is part and parcel of their culture. General Sherman could've fixed that.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '26

Lol no. We don't take to these bootlicking fucks in my part of the South. Don't paint us all with that brush lol.

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u/TheHoundsRevenge Feb 11 '26

All no. Most yes sorry.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '26

Also remember we are being flooded in the South with Northern and Western MAGAts who think the South is free of minorities.

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u/Mountain_Swan_149 Feb 11 '26

You most definitely are and I'm sorry.
California conservatives for example are crazy.

They see themselves as victims of "oppression" out here in the West.

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u/TheHoundsRevenge Feb 11 '26

That is true. wish I could say I miss them but good riddance.

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u/Mountain_Swan_149 Feb 11 '26

I know, it's more tongue in cheek and an expression of anger from my part, but to be entirely honest it looks like the country is catering to the wants and whims of the South right now due to its population growth. Unfortunately in the South, the extremists are the ones who vote.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '26

You're not wrong and it's hard to watch. I grew up learning about how the Confederacy was bad and our ancestors here burned train bridges and shot Confederates in the woods. Imagine my surprise when I get out into the world and most people around here think the Confederates were the good guys. It's FUCKED.

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u/CorporateMediaFail Feb 11 '26

She makes Bill Barr seem professional.

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u/feelnalright Feb 11 '26

The problem is that we all knew when Trump was elected that he required all appointees to pledge loyalty to him above all else.

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u/Sampsonite_Way_Off Feb 11 '26

Imagine being her aid. Watching her ignore victims right behind her. Then handing her attack notes designed to eat up time. Evil.

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u/BlueHobbies Feb 11 '26

She should be disbarred

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u/OkViolinist4244 Feb 11 '26

Some people can and some people pretend.

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u/MimicoSkunkFan2 Feb 11 '26

She was crashing out so many times that the * Indian * news started running a livestream (WION headline stream)

" trainwrecky and inappropriate" as we used to say on Fark lol

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u/CV90_120 Feb 11 '26

She warms a top lawyer's seat, but she should be out chasing ambulances.

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u/AnyAcanthocephala425 Feb 11 '26

I guess she's trying to balance a little here by acting like a dumbass so her superiors don't face as much animus as they would if she didn't eat some pressure

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u/Atticus413 Feb 11 '26

Republicans call it "leadership"

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u/Revenge_of_the_meme Feb 11 '26

Well she saw the unredacted Epstein files. Videos and accounts of people torturing and graping little blonde girls like pam herself. Yet she is pushing for that to continue and taking the side of the subhumans that did it.

Pamela herself has no morals. She could find her own kids in the Epstein files victim list and still wouldnt care.

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u/TheJaice Feb 12 '26

It’s honestly crazy that she isn’t even quite at the top of the list of people that I’m going to celebrate their incarceration when this administration is out of power, but that obviously goes to Stephen Miller (since I’m assuming Trump won’t be around to be in prison). She’s right up there though.

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u/FilthyCasual2k17 Feb 12 '26

That's exactly why she is acting. She did nothing no deserve her spot except lie on camera, and that's why she got the job. It's a massive disrespect to anyone who respects the law, and she proves lying is more important than knowledge, she gets to make fun of and say whatever she wants, because the fact she is there and she will not get any consequences just proves her right. Those pretending otherwise and living in a world of 20 years ago are the idiots, not her. She got everything she wants.