We have a terrible group of people in government today and none are worse than Trump’s appointees. Most of them scraped by Senate approval, some of them didn’t even need any approval, they simply got the job that they hold. Pam Bondi is amongst the worst — but remember, we are to be grateful that we have her in the post and not Matt Gaetz. And since Gaetz was the absolute bottom of the barrel, maybe there is something to that argument. Gaetz has ended up where he truly belongs. He’s a talking head on right-wing television. The casting director in the sky finally did what the people of Gaetz’ former congressional district would not or could not do. The clip you’re about to see is Bondi in a meltdown with Senator Adam Schiff.
More troubling is Bondi’s follow-up: “If you worked for me, you would have been fired.” This is not just a rhetorical flourish; it’s a threat. It reframes legitimate oversight as insubordination, signaling that dissent or scrutiny would be punished under her leadership.
— SleuthyFella (@SleuthyFella) October 7, 2025
All that is true enough. Now to get to the context in which this spat took place. These are the salient questions put to Bondi, which she refused to answer, and the list shrieks corruption to the heavens.
“I think it’s valuable that the American people get a sense of what you’ve refused to answer today,” Schiff told Bondi. The following questions are those that Schiff noted went unanswered, or were met with personal attacks, by the attorney general:
1. Did Bondi consult with career ethics lawyers when she approved Trump’s acceptance of a $400 million jet gifted by Qatar’s royal family?
2. Who ordered that Donald Trump’s name be flagged in the FBI’s review of the Epstein files?
3. Did Homan keep his $50,000 from the undercover agents?
4. Did Homan pay taxes on the $50,000?
5. Did DOJ prosecutors determine there was “insufficient evidence” to charge former FBI Director James Comey before he was indicted?
6. How did the administration determine whether U.S. military strikes on Venezuelan boats in the Caribbean were legal?
(Here, Bondi interrupted, asking the senator, who worked for the justice department before his career in politics, “Do you have a law degree, Senator Schiff?”)
7. Did Bondi discuss indicting Comey with Trump?
8. Did Bondi approve the dismissal of antitrust lawyers who opposed the Hewlett Packard–Juniper merger?
9. Does Bondi support a “compensation fund” for people prosecuted in connection with the January 6, 2021 Capitol riots?
10. Is Bondi firing career prosecutors for working on January 6 investigations?
11. Does Bondi think government officials must follow court orders?
After concluding the list, Schiff made the following statement, though he was peppered with interruptions from Bondi—who brought up red herrings, such as wildfires and riots in his home state, and threw personal barbs, calling the senator a “failed lawyer.”
This is supposed to be an oversight hearing of the Justice Department, and it comes in the wake of an indictment called for by the president of one of his enemies. This is supposed to be an oversight hearing, and it comes in the wake of revelations that a top administration official took $50,000 in a bag, and this department made that investigation go away. This is supposed to be an oversight hearing, when dozens of prosecutors have been fired simply because they worked on cases investigating the former president.… This is supposed to be an oversight hearing in which members of Congress can get serious answers to serious questions about … the cover-up of corruption, about the prosecution of the president’s enemies.
Schiff implored members of the committee to “demand answers to those questions” and to refuse “personal slander as an answer to those questions.” Bondi in turn said Schiff should apologize for “slandering” Trump.
Schiff went from being a non lawyer to a failed lawyer in pretty short order during the course of this hearing. I wish I knew how graduating from Harvard School of Law and working as a federal prosecutor is being a “failed lawyer.” Hot damn, if that’s failure I hate to think what you have to do to be a blazing success.
But of course reality is not the issue here, so much as reality TV. Bondi was playing for the peanut gallery, for MAGA, and she needs to play the victim and make Schiff the bad guy.
Meanwhile, look again at the questions that Bondi refused to answer. They are all simple, straightforward questions and the answers to them are deserved by the American people. We can’t get those answers.
Bondi is a pathetic waste of space! She is morally corrupt as is her boss and “co-workers”. All any of them can do is lie, and insult! Great attributes!
When his law degree was challenged, Schiff should’ve responded, “Yes, I do, Ms Bondi. Do YOU? Given the extent of your legal work prior to your current position, it suggests any degree you hold came out of a box of Cracker Jack. Or Trump University. But we’re not here to compare law degrees Ms Bondi, and I would remind you that you’re here to answer questions from this panel, not ask them.”
Schiff has exceptional self-control. I would have told her to shut up and answer the #!?&#@ question. One senator commented that she would answer for her behavior in this hearing. Let’s hope, and that she is indicted for her criminal acts. If there is justice on this planet, we will all get to see HER do the perp walk.