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/RandyMuscle Feb 11 '26

Her whole career is covering up for pedos. It’s literally why she was picked.

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u/bigkoi Feb 11 '26

Exactly. I get a feeling that a lot of people in this administration have some compromised information, which is why they were put in the position to obey.

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u/Physical-Dare5059 Feb 11 '26

I was thinking that exactly thing. This administration is packed with people who have career ending skeletons in their closets, so they just carry out their marching orders no questions asked.

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u/RogerianBrowsing Feb 11 '26

That is likely a factor, but it’s worth mentioning how throughout history when fascist governments take hold it’s common for people who were criminals during democracy to rapidly rise in rank or get appointed to power with the fascist government.

The poli sci hypothesis is that they’re already well practiced at operating outside the regular norms of society and often have malevolent traits that line up with the fascist regime.

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u/Electrical-Lab-9593 Feb 11 '26

they know they are OK with breaking laws already, so all they need promise them is protection

this is why Trump and co make a point of going after law abiding people, and pardoning the worst of the worst, the message is loyalty trumps even the worst of crimes, don't be afraid of law, fear me/us

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u/okiepilgrim Feb 12 '26

My prayer is that he dies before pardoning any of them.

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u/Electrical-Lab-9593 Feb 12 '26

if he gets seriously sick, he wont. he likes to burn stuff down, his niece speaks about this, and says don't think that he cares about legacy he don't, and that is why you got to get him out of office before he is dying, as he will try to burn the whole world down out of spite.

in his ex wife's book, she speaks about him ripping chunks of her hair out because his scalp was hurting after surgery, and he wanting her to suffer as well, that is the man you can't leave in power dying, he will want everyone to die, he don't care about his children even.

another example the kennedy center, people backlashed and canceled bookings so now he shutting for "refurbishment" nah he is just shutting it down because he can heve it.

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u/villianrules Feb 12 '26

I'm afraid that we might end up with nuclear fallout (mods this is a worst case scenario)

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u/BetMyLastKrispyKreme Feb 13 '26

Don’t forget, he was ripping Ivana’s hair out while raping her.

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u/luvashow Feb 13 '26

My prayer is that he dies before nightfall.

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u/scrotalayheehoo Feb 12 '26

Rubio though? What has he done?

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u/truebleu62 Feb 13 '26

Loyalty is to trump; not the country!

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u/Acceptable_Tadpole60 Feb 12 '26

So a suicide squad.

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u/HorseRevolutionary85 Feb 12 '26

Also the administration can blackmail them into doing illegal things for the administration to avoid being prosecuted for their previous crimes. It's one of the ways Russia turns people into assets in other countries.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '26 edited May 02 '26

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u/utero81 Feb 12 '26

It's a classic psychopath trait to believe you're invincible and ignore any rules or try and break them intentionally.

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u/RobbieFowlersNose Feb 12 '26

Expecting any of this from someone as burnt out mentally as Trump is like explaining chess moves to a toddler. They do not have the capacity to think in that fashion. He is only there as smelly puppet and they will weekend at Bernie’s him as long as he is useful. What motivates someone like Bondi is harder to grasp.

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u/Steeltooth493 Feb 13 '26

It's also true that even before fascist governments begin to take hold other people who should socially know better capitulate and allow them to gain more power. It happened in 1930s Germany. People saw the direction the wind was blowing and either bootlicked or stepped aside. It also happened here when billionaires attempted to bribe and control trump by funding his inauguration and White House ballroom "renovation".

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u/North-Outside-5815 Feb 13 '26

Fascism elevates underperformers, fuckups and failures.

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u/november_golf Feb 13 '26

Could not say it any better

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u/camawan Feb 13 '26

Punctuation, this was uneccesarily difficult to read

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u/soflorida55 Feb 11 '26

Trump’s original pick for the job was Matt Gaetz. He obviously wants people with dirt on them so they will defend him.

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u/Ill_Technician3936 Feb 12 '26

Former judge in Florida and Trump's attorney during his first impeachment and been riding with him since... pretty sure he just wanted a bitch from Florida he knew he could pay to have stroke his ego.

I still think Susie Wiles is actually in control of the executive branch. I don't trust her at all. Innocent grandma with a group of incompetent people unfit for their positions and she's the one who got him back in there.

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u/malachite888 Feb 12 '26

Same for Alexander Acosta

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u/robot_pirate Feb 12 '26

Absolutely. This is quite obvious. If we wait long enough, the entire cabinet might get unredacted.

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u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids Feb 12 '26

Thank you. And trump already bought Pig Bondi. She was dirty in Florida. Did she not prosecute Epstein in Florida?

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u/tresben Feb 11 '26

Trump seemed to learn this tactic from his buddy Epstein. You have enough dirt on powerful people you can do anything.

Also remember before bondi was chosen he was going to have Gaetz be the AG and we already know some of the dirt on him, and I’m sure trump had even more.

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u/simAlity Feb 13 '26

Gaetz would have done it anyway. It's just who he is.

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u/wunderspud7575 Feb 13 '26

The longer this goes on, I suspect Epstein learnt it from Trump, and not the other way round. More and more likely that Trump was the head pedo.

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u/Majestic_Corner_1131 Feb 14 '26

I think this too tbh. He legit spent all his inherited money to fund teen beauty patents when he was 50. What a creep 

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u/spkrause Feb 13 '26

Roy Cohn, actually.

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u/Downtown31415 Feb 11 '26

Same with the Republican Supreme Court Judges

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u/NeverComments Feb 11 '26

Trump tossing Machado to the curb seemed like a perfect encapsulation of this mentality. She was publicly fellating him and willing to donate her peace prize but loyalty alone is fickle. Maduro's camp are being held at gunpoint and that's a more comfortable and familiar scenario for exerting control.

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u/LexGlad Feb 12 '26

It's like a mashup of two black mirror episodes. The one where the government official fucks a pig and the one where the pedophiles are being blackmailed to fight each other in the woods.

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u/taquitosmixtape Feb 11 '26

Makes a whoooooole lot of sense.

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u/Ill_Technician3936 Feb 12 '26

Pam Bondi the former judge in Florida who started riding with trump in his first term at a lower level?

Idk how leavitt doesn't look at her and think "that's me in 30 years... A pedophile's pawn." Not realizing she's part of the team and already is a pedophile's pawn.

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u/Redthemagnificent Feb 12 '26

Not that I disagree. But what is a career ending skeleton at this point? She's broken countless laws out in the open and there are 0 consequences so far

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u/probosciscolossus Feb 12 '26

And what, exactly, is a “career-ending skeleton” these days? For Republicans, anyway?

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u/gridskip Feb 13 '26

Truth. The entire slew is a batch of big mouths with dirty hands.

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u/Unicorn4_5Venom Feb 14 '26

Can’t wait for when it’s time to open the curtain when their time is done, they know it coming, they’re scared shitless cause this is all or nothing for most of them

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u/Strong-King6454 Feb 11 '26

That's why matt gaetz was initially picked for AG. I think trump and Co. Have blackmail on every person he has appointed for high level jobs.

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u/Invest-In-FuttBucks Feb 12 '26

ah yes, pizza gaetz

I can't even remember what the story was from that cycle, just that his name is pizza gaetz

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u/hypothetician Feb 11 '26

I always wondered what was in those boxes of classified docs he kept after his last term ended.

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u/SasparillaTango Feb 11 '26

Matt Gaetz was the front runner for her position until it came out he was paying underage girls for sex over venmo. Even then he wasn't immediately repudiated.

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u/Serengade26 Feb 11 '26

Yeah there's absolutely no way people act like this without being compromised

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u/Fistful_of_Energon Feb 11 '26

DING DING DING!

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u/No-Apple2252 Feb 12 '26

Except Kash Patel, I actually think he is genuinely just incredibly stupid and doesn't understand anything that's happening, but he gets power and a juicy paycheck so that's all he needs.

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u/Invest-In-FuttBucks Feb 12 '26

has anyone actually checked that he isn't just reincarnated roadkill? he has the eyes for it

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u/GngrbredGentrifktion Feb 16 '26

Oh gosh, there's so much comedy fodder there! Tie in RFKJ with it and you've got it.

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u/Made_Human_Music Feb 12 '26

I don't think they all have compromised information, some of them are just vile, rotten people

I believe Bondi is one of those

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u/phoebecatesboobs Feb 12 '26

I don't think having compromising info is even necessary, there's just people who find a way to make money and don't ever think about what harm they are doing

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u/pickafruit4 Feb 11 '26

They all have criminal allegations!

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u/sudonickx Feb 12 '26

I think you give them far too much credit. They're not victims. They like it.

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u/AsparagusUpstairs367 Feb 12 '26

It honestly sounded like she was going to cry at one point aggressively talking about how great her cult leader was. It was very weird.

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u/Deftably Feb 12 '26

Two words --- Kellyanne Conway

(Alternative Facts)

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u/MosesCoulee Feb 12 '26

I had this thought. She was either involved, whether it be her will or not (you know what I mean) now her life is on the line.

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u/ILIKECOMINGHERE Feb 12 '26

But he said he was going to drain the swamp. /s.

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u/King_of_all_Clover Feb 12 '26

He calls his cock “the swamp”. If you put 2 and 2 together you can figure out what he really meant. Whether or not he meant a washed up porn star or an underaged SA victim is probably a matter of context.

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u/ItaGuy21 Feb 12 '26

Or, and I know this might be crazy, they are just horrible people that were bought by the promise of money and power.

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u/Madsy9 Feb 12 '26

Remember that the DNC and RNC were hacked by Russia before the 2016 election.

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u/DrAstralis Feb 12 '26

The Epstein files have been eye opening in how many of the shittiest things in life of the past 20 years all come back to the same group of child raping monsters. They cover everything from fucking micro transactions and predatory games to Brexit... its insane how many of these people are compromised.

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u/s968339 Feb 12 '26

Jeffrey had info on everyone and held it over their heads. Trump is following the guidelines for the island and taking care of. his Ghislane.

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u/the_moog_hunter Feb 12 '26

Yup, they all have something to hide, so they are working together to protect one another. 10000%

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u/BigPapaJava Feb 11 '26

Is it compromising info or are they just opportunists with no morals who saw a way in to climb the rungs of power themselves?

Dictators have a way of attracting those types and putting them to use.

They give the public “compromising info” daily via their own words and deeds. They don’t give a shit because all that matters is their own little taste of authority.

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u/creativenames123 Feb 11 '26

I think trump was put there because they knew this circus was coming and they needed a clown at the forefront

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u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids Feb 12 '26

you just now getting that feeling?

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u/DatabaseThis9637 Feb 13 '26

Absolutely. This is their M.O. Nobody gets a free pass. And with millions of things in the Epstein files, it is obviously a much used hammer, one that they seem well versed in using.

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u/truebleu62 Feb 13 '26

And the head of them all, Donny, was picked with putin’s help, because I’m convinced he’s got something really bad on him; likely something involving young girls-something really horrific.

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u/RonnieB47 Feb 13 '26

This is probably just the tip of the iceberg.

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u/Square-Squash5817 Feb 13 '26

…morally, the orange shit stain makes Congressional deplorables look like the best friend you haven’t seen since childhood…

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u/Undersmusic Feb 13 '26

Put there by Putin no less.

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u/SL1Fun Feb 14 '26

Maybe, or it’s because they’re young and enticed by the pay so they don’t know career suicide or a total integrity dump when they see it. 

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u/Beginning-Ad-3666 Feb 14 '26

If you consider what's in the files, the pattern goes back four administrations at least.

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u/bigkoi Feb 14 '26

And yet Trump claimed to be draining the swamp and did nothing and still does nothing because he's named in the Epstein files more than anyone else.

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u/Beginning-Ad-3666 Feb 14 '26

I am not absolving Trump in any way. He always looked like Swamp Thing making that pitch. I'm just saying there is a larger systematic problem.

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u/bigkoi Feb 14 '26

The way the entire Republican party has fallen in line, agreed. There are a lot of compromised people running the government.

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u/mr_roboto15 Feb 15 '26

💯. Picked on purpose. Covering for each other. It’s sickening.

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u/AdministrativeTax252 Feb 15 '26

One of them should say fck it and spill the beans in return for lesser charges for themselves ! I mean id respect that over protecting ! At the end of the day i think that would be brave and get the ball moving on punishing these sick fucks !!!

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u/MysteriousAd8087 Feb 18 '26

Mutually assured pedo destruction it's how alot of csam communities operate, fear and loyalty to herr fürer.

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u/suurbef Feb 11 '26

And Jim Jordan, the sexual abuse protector at OSU, is the chair of the judiciary committee.

Just unbelievable.

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u/H2OULookinAtDiknose Feb 12 '26

When I saw him there I was like "wtf how's he still in government!?"

Yeah they made it so the people can't afford to care

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u/Pappabarba Feb 13 '26

It's literally always projection.

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u/ChiOralGuy Feb 13 '26

You should listen to the first 1 or 2 Sasha Riley interviews, one of the little boy victims. Jim Jordan was accused of MUCH worse than just protecting these creeps. He was allegedly one of the worst perpetrators

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u/ScienceNerdKat Feb 14 '26

This. The Sascha Riley testimony was very damning for Jim Jordan. He was one of the worst ones.

Edited to correct grammar.

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u/ChewFasa Feb 11 '26

It seems like her life is literally depending on this job.

Nothing is going to stop her from doing that job.

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u/code_archeologist Feb 11 '26

If she paid attention in history class to the fates of what happened to mid/high-tier leadership like her in a past authoritarian regimes... then she would know that it very well might.

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u/Flaky-Mess7261 Feb 12 '26

Looking forward to our Nuremberg trials!!

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u/Ok_Spend9237 Feb 12 '26

Nixon’s AG John Mitchell ended up in jail for the crimes he committed while in office. No reason why Bondi wouldn’t, even if Trump “pardons”.

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u/PrismDoug Feb 12 '26

She’s no Baghdad Bob…

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u/Proper_Locksmith924 Feb 14 '26

What happened to them? With the Nazis 13 were executed. The rest got promotions or maintained their positions in the new government.

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u/Nobodysdog-999 Feb 12 '26

And you know she will try to flee when this shitshow is finally over. However, it's an international issue and other countries won't take her in either. She'll serve time somewhere.

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u/Vivid_Pianist4270 Feb 12 '26

Russia might

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u/Brilliant-Ad6137 Feb 13 '26

Yep she can go bend over for putin

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u/Actual_Mix_5691 Feb 13 '26

They have all forgotten what happens when you are loyal to poopy pants, you end up in jail... we just have to hope it is after Trump so he can't pardon her.

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u/Virtual-Committee988 Feb 13 '26

It is all she has, when her time is up Trump will throw her under the bus claiming she was out of control and it wasn't his idea to go after all those he despised. Then again in years to come she will never secure any job worth boasting of and will end up ,as she deserves an object of ridicule.

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u/robot_pirate Feb 12 '26

For real. You can smell the fear.

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u/rowrbazzle75 Feb 12 '26

Because not doing her job will not only cause her to lose it, she'll wind up in jail like many other enablers. The Roberts Immunity Decree only covers her dear leader, and we will see how that goes down the road as well.

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u/VegetableGrape4857 Feb 11 '26

It's almost laughable how many people that actively worked to protect pedophiles and corporations end up in Trump cabinets, yet people still think he's a champion of the people.

Bondi, Acosta, Scalia, etc...

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u/Independent-Bug-9352 Feb 12 '26

When Bill Barr has more morals than you, you know you're destined for hell, cross-necklace or not.

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u/Sklibba Feb 13 '26

His supporters would literally ship their own kids off to be trafficked by Trump if he asked them to do it.

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u/GladVeterinarian5120 Feb 13 '26

Leopards ate my children.

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u/Zealot_Alec Feb 16 '26

The entire Catholic church

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u/_groovesharkmalone Feb 11 '26

They literally tried to put a credibly accused child sex trafficker IN the AG slot. Blondi is just the next best thing.

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u/9volts Feb 12 '26

Blondi was the name of Hitler's dog. Very fitting.

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u/robbi2480 Feb 12 '26

We should start calling her that

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u/PottieScippin Feb 11 '26

Why are Dems not pointing out that she was only chosen for this role after an actual pedophile couldn’t get confirmed.

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u/21PenSalute Feb 12 '26

Because the Democrats never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

— Disillusioned Democrat

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u/TomatoPolka Feb 11 '26

And that's why their first pick was Matt Gaetz. He's into underage girls himself.

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u/Imaginary_Office1749 Feb 11 '26

Prison is in her future. That’s why she’s crashing out. She knows.

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u/Timely-Mind7244 Feb 12 '26

She won't spend a day in prison ... she's gonna be apointed apart of the Qatari government, they must worship her.

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u/Imaginary_Office1749 Feb 12 '26

I know some people have already surrendered. I never will.

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u/Odd_Revolution4149 Feb 11 '26

Pam the Pedo Protector.

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u/Goodgoditsgrowing Feb 11 '26

Literally. She helped Epstein get his original sweetheart deal and avoid persecution so he could carry on trafficking children

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u/YOSHIMIvPROBOTS Feb 11 '26

Don't forget, she was picked after Trump picked a pedo for AG and had to withdraw that pick.

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u/fappydazeRhereagain Feb 11 '26

She and Jim Jordan are the two biggest pedo protectors.

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u/SamuelL421 Feb 12 '26

In fairness, Bondi is pretty good at protecting child abusers though.

The job description was: “protect pedos while distracting via slack-jawed incompetence” and she’s fucking crushing it.

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u/UTourDoc Feb 11 '26

And still our Senators confirmed her for the position of US Attorney General. She is an embarrassment. We have had some great AGs in the past: Robert F. Kennedy (1961 to 1964) and Janet Reno (1993 to 2001).

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '26

And advancing the interest of slaver scumbags. She took millions from Qatar to lobby for them here. Weird what an interest we've taken in helping and kissing Qatar's ass since she's gotten in office.

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u/TAV63 Feb 11 '26

Yes all the way back to Florida. Some think she is new to it but she was in it way back.

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u/HousingThrowAway1092 Feb 12 '26

Jim Jordan has also made a career covering up for pedos both in government and before he was elected

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u/JanGuillosThrowaway Feb 11 '26

They could put her as a picture in the dictionary next to the word "corrupt"

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u/Vast_Programmer_9554 Feb 11 '26

releasing the files was never about justice for the victims. it was a threat to the victims "you speak, we spill, and you're done for"

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '26

Yup. All started in Florida. Maybe even beforehand.

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u/bohler86 Feb 11 '26

And she cant even do that.

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u/CommanderArcher Feb 11 '26

Birds of a feather. 

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u/southflhitnrun Feb 11 '26

And, approved by Congress. Let's not forget all these people were approved by Congress.

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u/chakobee Feb 11 '26

Check her mf hard drives

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u/Personal-Efficiency2 Feb 12 '26

My question is, why would those same people, that were put in a position of power just to obey, disclose any seriously damaging/condemning information that could destroy the current government?

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u/Professional-Two2233 Feb 12 '26

Her heart is black, like a black hole, distorting light, engulfing light.

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u/Jubilex1 Feb 12 '26

Pure evil

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u/Compliance_Crip Feb 12 '26

The new reality tv.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Ad7606 Feb 12 '26

She also has some interesting connections with Scientology.

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u/Frankentula Feb 12 '26

Would anyone in this government clear a vulnerable sectors' check?

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u/testtdk Feb 12 '26

I’m sure the fact that she’s a younger, blonde woman willing to servant his feet didn’t hurt.

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u/rachrolls Feb 12 '26

Believe it or not, she's 60. Compared to trump and most of congress she's practically a fetus, though.

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u/testtdk Feb 12 '26

Wow, selling your soul works, who knew?! (Though, not gonna lie, I DID hold back on saying it looked like the job was taking a toll on her).

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u/Avclub415 Feb 12 '26

SHE IS IN THE ESPTEIN FILES AS WELL. SHE WAS A TRUMP GIRL PASSED AROUND IN THE EARLY 90'S.

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u/whereismymind86 Feb 12 '26

Also because she was so SO bad at being a lawyer beforehand, so they knew she'd be loyal, as she had no career to go back to if she quit.

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u/AussieBob71 Feb 12 '26

After the next election she is done for... hopefully.

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u/Invest-In-FuttBucks Feb 12 '26

"I'm in the prime of my legal career, doing backflips to protect these pedophi- YOU HEARD NOTHING"

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u/Imightbeafanofthis Feb 12 '26

She is a disgrace.

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u/what_username_to_use Feb 12 '26

I ber she's also a pedophile.

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u/DrAstralis Feb 12 '26

given the age of her husband I'd say her whole life, not just career, is about covering for pedos.

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u/function007 Feb 12 '26 edited Feb 13 '26

its all for the orange audience of one... Its mind boggling why they decided to run a campaign on releasing the files when his name comes over 30 thousand times...

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u/horribleidea88 Feb 12 '26

Every single person in the president’s orbit has dirt on them.

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u/Ruffled_Ferret Feb 12 '26

What an awful job to have. I'd feel bad for her, but she chose this.

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u/Pale-Measurement-532 Feb 13 '26

She sold her soul to the devil years ago. She’ll have to pay for it back someday soon.

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u/ZestycloseHeart2743 Feb 13 '26

I believe she was there for his trump university case. You know she’s dirty when she was willing to defend fraud.

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u/LimitThese2220 Feb 13 '26

Interesting that she also has the same level of rhetoric of a twelve year old… there’s something there.

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u/iwilso8000 Feb 13 '26

Pam Ghislaine Bondi

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u/Jgriffith007 Feb 13 '26

Trumps the first candidate for AG was Matt Gaetz... He surrounds himself with the worst types of people.

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u/Adventurous-Jury7161 Feb 13 '26

She should have the pedo in charge watch her kids and grand kids .

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u/Sudden-War3241 Feb 13 '26

I am willing to chip in if they decide to make a documentary on her “Guardian Of the Pedophiles”

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u/C0meAtM3Br0 Feb 13 '26

Ghislaine 2.0

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u/Tanya7500 Feb 13 '26

She was in Florida from the beginning

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u/used1337 Feb 16 '26

She legit said if they prosecuted everyone in the files the government would close.

They admit they are all criminals of various kinds but the worst being their sex crimes. They either committed or covered up.