About the only MAGA of any distinction who is backing up Pam Bondi after her cartoonish performance before Congress Wednesday is Donald Trump. And maybe his will be the defining voice, because if you ask a lot of other prominent MAGAs, they want her gone and yesterday. Daily Beast:
The bizarre spectacle prompted condemnation across the board. A visibly stunned Republican Rep. Thomas Massie told reporters after the shouting match: “She didn’t answer anything. She came here ready to talk about the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq, which seems kind of crazy to me.”
He was not the only conservative to call out Bondi’s sorry performance, as many rushed to demand her resignation or impeachment.
Kyle Rittenhouse, who was acquitted of murdering two people during a protest against police violence when he was just 17, wrote: “Pam Bondi needs to resign. Harmeet Dhillon for AG!”
Conservative radio host Erick Erickson said Bondi should quit or be fired. Referring to a clip of the AG ranting about stocks instead of answering a question, he wrote on X: “When the Attorney General of the United States is asked why she has prosecuted no one related to Jeffrey Epstein and this is her answer, she should be fired or resign.
“But neither will happen, which is another reason the Democrats are going to have a good election year.”
Tim Pool, a prominent pro-Donald Trump commentator and podcaster, also broke from Bondi. During an episode of Timcast, posted to YouTube, he declared: “Man, we are a nation of adult children.”
He added, “I think Pam Bondi has done a…I give her more credit than people do. I was about to say that I think she’s done a decent job, but I can’t. It’s just…I can’t say it.”
Nobody can say it except Trump. In a 242-word tirade on Truth Social, he proclaimed Bondi’s strange performance as “fantastic” under what he said was “intense fire from the “Trump Deranged Radical Left Lunatics”.
“Nobody cared about Epstein when he was alive, they only cared about him when they thought he could create Political Harm to a very popular President who has brought our Country back from the brink of extinction, and very quickly, at that!” added Trump, who is referred to in the files more than a million times (according to the Daily Beast. I don’t know if this is hyperbole or God forbid, literal.)
“In fact, this attempt by the Democrats to take away attention from tremendous Republican SUCCESS is backfiring badly.”
NASDAQ! THE DOW!! I’m sure we’re all grateful to hear whatever good news that we can, but the point remains, “what about Jeffrey Epstein?” That’s the issue, not stocks, or kittens, or astrology, merely one man, Jeffrey Epstein. When can we get to that?
Or, maybe we’ve gotten the only answer we’re going to get, which is that nothing matters besides money. No matter what crimes were committed against these young women, if the stock market is okay, so what? Now that is a level of cynicism I find hard to swallow even after ten years of Trump but perhaps it is as simple as that.
