No one trusts Chump

Does Convicted Felon Donald Chump get how people see him?  No, not at all.  He thinks most Americans worship him when most Americans cannot stand him.  Tom Sanders (DAILY BEAST) reports:

The vast majority of Americans remain skeptical about Donald Trump’s claims that Tylenol is linked to autism in newborns, according to a new poll. The KFF poll conducted after Trump’s Sept. 22 remarks in the Oval Office revealed that 77 percent of the public had heard the claim—which lacks scientific evidence—and only around 35 percent agreed with it. Just 4 percent of the 1,334 adults surveyed believed the statement was “definitely true.” A much larger share, 35 percent, said it was “definitely false,” while 60 percent were unsure, evenly divided between “probably true” and “probably false.” 

'Dr.' Chump is not believed -- shocker. Want another shocker?  Today, Mr. Chump held a Cabinet meeting.  And?  Guess what, he lied.  Over and over. Daniel Dale (CNN) explains: 

President Donald Trump made numerous false claims during a Cabinet meeting Thursday at the White House – many of them about vaccines.

He wrongly asserted that babies are given 82 vaccines in a single shot (not even close to true). He wrongly asserted that babies are given vaccine doses the size of two glasses of water (a standard dose is a small fraction of a teaspoon). He wrongly asserted that Amish people don’t take vaccines or pills (many do) and don’t have any autism (they do). And he wrongly asserted that the measles vaccine is already given separately from other vaccines (no separate measles shot is available in the US).

Trump was also wildly inaccurate on other subjects.

He again claimed each alleged Venezuelan drug boat kills 25,000 Americans, a number that is plainly absurd. He again used mathematically impossible figures in promising that drug prices will fall by hundreds of percent. He again declared that he had settled seven wars even before the new ceasefire he brokered in Gaza, though his figure includes a war that hasn’t ended and two situations that were not wars during his presidency.

He revived his usual lie that he was the rightful winner of the 2020 election he legitimately lost to Joe Biden. And he declared once more that the big domestic policy bill he signed earlier this year includes “no tax on Social Security,” though that’s not what the bill says.

Here is a fact check of these remarks.

Vaccines

Babies and vaccines: Echoing his previous false claim that babies are given shots from “a vat of 80 different vaccines,” Trump lamented this time that “we have 82 vaccines that we give simult(aneously),” cutting himself off before finishing the word, then said, “You give 82 vaccines in a shot to a little baby that hasn’t even formed yet.” Babies are not given 82 vaccines in a single shot or even during a single visit to the doctor. In fact, babies do not receive anywhere close to 82 vaccines in total, as the the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommended childhood vaccination schedule shows; US babies generally get well under 20 different vaccines (and roughly 20 to 30 shots) by the age of 15 months.

 See: No one trusts the Liar in Chief.  And we are all alarmed as a country over what Mr. Chump is doing.  I saw U.S. Senator Rand Paul on TV this week talking about the bombing of the Venezuela ships and noting how awful a precedent it sets because we convict in court and what Mr. Chump is doing is wrong and against what America stands for.  You cannot trust him and you cannot trust the people around him.  Dharna Noor (GUARDIAN) reports:

Donald Trump has placed dozens of people with ties to the fossil fuel sector in his administration, including more than 40 who have directly worked for oil, gas or coal companies, according to a new analysis.

The report from Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy and ethics non-profit that has been critical of the Trump administration, alongside the Revolving Door Project, a corporate watchdog, analyzed the backgrounds of nominees and appointees within the White House and eight agencies dictating energy, environmental and climate policy. That includes the Environmental Protection Agency, the interior and energy departments and others.

he analysis comes as Trump wages broad attacks on climate and energy policies and on renewable energy. The president’s so-called one big beautiful act, for instance, opened swaths of federal land to drilling and mining and sped the phaseout of renewable energy incentives. The administration has also launched an unprecedented assault on climate science, including with an energy department report on climate change that experts derided as full of misinformation. The report was created to justify the planned overturning of a key legal finding that forms the basis of virtually all US climate regulations.

“It is often specific actors coming from specific moneyed interests that are carrying out this disastrous deregulatory agenda,” said Toni Aguilar Rosenthal, report author and senior researcher at the Revolving Door Project.

The authors identified 111 employees deemed “fossil fuel insiders and renewable energy opponents”. That includes 43 people who were directly employed by coal, oil or gas companies. Among them are well-known senior officials such as energy secretary Chris Wright, the former CEO of the fracking company Liberty Energy.

A tag sale, I say. setting up C.I. if she needs it for tomorrow's snapshot (in the roundtable tonight for tomorrow's gina & krista round-robin, and she talked about feeling that the whole government was for sale in a hearing this week.  Mr. Chump has certainly placed a price tag on everything. 

This is C.I.'s "The Snapshot" for today:

Thursday, October 19,2025.  Attorney General Pam da Bimbo Bondi disgraced herself Tuesday as she repeatedly lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee -- lied -- intentionally lied -- she prepared her 'zingers' ahead of time, wrote them down on paper and flipped through her papers throughout the hearing to find her prepared lies.  This wasn't just lying, this was premeditated.  She was under oath.  She broke the law and did so intentionally. 

We're going to pick up with The Bimbo Bondi and her outlandish appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.  First, apologies and clarifications.  Senator Adam Schiff is an attorney.  Covering the hearing yesterday, I noted her crazed behavior but didn't go into all of her claims because she seemed to be lying.  We're going to cover some of that now. I thought I noted when she was screeching at Senator Adam Schiff that he wasn't n attorney.  It might have gotten cut for space.  But she was screeching at him and distorting the law and claiming he didn't understand the law because he was not an attorney.  

I did not realize he was an attorney.  Nancy's been my Representative in the House forever and a day.  In the primary for Senate, I was for Katie Porter.  I was fine voting for Schiff in the general election and he has exceeded my expectations so applause and praise for him; however, I did not know his story.  I'm not the only one.  Pam da Bimbo Bondi didn't know that either.  Nicole Charky-Chami's RAW STORY article entitled "Stetson grad Pam Bondi scoffs at legal knowledge of senator — who went to Harvard Law" is where I learned of it.  

So if she had any integrity -- we know she doesn't -- she would apologize immediately.  But she doesn't care.  She just lies.  And she came prepared with her little book of lies that she could not speak without consulting.  She lied.  She lied repeatedly.  

Need another example, Alexander Willis (RAW STORY) reports on this exchange

Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) put Attorney General Pam Bondi on notice Tuesday after she made the misleading claim that the senator “stormed” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem during a news conference in June, a stunning incident captured on video where Padilla was forced to the ground and handcuffed.

[. . .]

“You know, you want order in here now, yet you stormed the director of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem!” Bondi said. “You sure didn't have order that day, did you, Senator?”

“Attorney general, you are under oath!” Padilla fired back. “I did not storm the secretary.”

That's the thing about dirty little whores.  They lie and they mean to.

I should have known that Adam's an attorney since he's one of my two US senators.  But it's not like I accused him of not being one.  Bimbo came to the hearing with her attacks prepared ahead of time, which is why she was flipping furiously through that huge book/binder in front of her throughout.  She planned every attack ahead of time.  So she should have known her facts.

But she doesn't care about facts.  

She lied bout Adam and she lied about Alex.

She deliberately lied while refusing to answer questions.  Grasp that. She wasn't going to talk about Homan, she wasn't going to talk about this or that.  But she made time to talk about when federal goons attacked Alex?  And she lied about what happened.

She's an Attorney General who lied about the physical attack on a US senator -- that's what she did.  She's not fit to be an attorney general and we damn well don't need any lectures from her bout how to speak in public when all she does is lie.

She's a damn liar.  An elderly woman with nothing to point to.  She's sixty next month.  No kids.  Two failed marriages that combined almost lasted six years.  Career wise?  She's taken actions that can land her in prison and should; however, right now we can just term her a professional disgrace.

Guess she's nothing but the lonely spinster when it comes to work, in love with the boss, pining for him and going home to her empty and barren life each night.

Steven Benen (MADDOW BLOG, MSNBC) notes:

As Schiff documented, Bondi refused to respond to all kinds of legitimate lines of inquiry, including:

whether the attorney general consulted with career ethics lawyers before approving a $400 million gift from the Qatar (a country she was a paid lobbyist for);

what role she played in asking that Trump’s name be flagged in the Jeffrey Epstein files;

whether White House border czar Tom Homan took the $50,000 from undercover FBI agents in the runup to the 2024 election;

whether career prosecutors found insufficient evidence to charge former FBI Director James Comey;

whether Bondi discussed the Comey indictment with Trump;

how the administration concluded that military strikes against civilians in international waters are legal;

whether Bondi approved the firing of antitrust lawyers who disagreed with the Hewlett Packard merger;

whether she supported a fund for violent insurrectionists who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6;

whether the Justice Department had fired career professionals because they worked on Jan. 6 cases;

and whether DOJ employees should have to abide by court orders.

In effectively all of these instances, the attorney general could’ve offered substantive answers. She instead attacked senators for asking good questions she didn’t like.

Pam made many charges and they also seemed baseless so we weren't exact in her claims.  I noted I had a cold -- that's why Ava and I aren't worrying about a piece at THIRD this week.  And I talked about menthol on my resonators.  Shirley said a ton of e-mails asked what resonators are.  Hum.  When you did that just now the vibrations went to a space -- where depends on if you were humming a low note or a high note.  They're basically cavities, like the chest, the nose the areas above or right on the eyebrow, etc.  They're what give our voices color and they're what tend to fill up with snot when we have a cold.    She attacked Senator Sheldon Whitehouse over someone she claimed he had donated to his campaigns.  Alexander Bolton's "Senate Democrat: Bondi campaign contribution accusation ‘simply isn’t true’" (THE HILL) notes that Whitehouse has his staff research his claim and, no, he had not accepted donations from the man she claimed (Reid Hoffman).  

She came in and she knowingly and repeatedly lied.  Senator Alex Padilla reminded her she was under oath but she kept lying.  James Comey is being targeted by Pams and Chump and he didn't lie.  But Pam went and deliberately lied and did so over and over.

 

Maybe if she'd stop lying and do her actual job of protecting the American people, ICE wouldn't be harming people? 

 

 

She needs to face charges.

 

MSNBC has a commentary from former  US Senator Claire McCaskill -- adapted from her comments on DEADLINE WHITE HOUSE WITH NICOLE WALLACE:

For over four hours, Trump’s former personal lawyer hit Democrats with what sounded like cheap opposition research. She called Sen. Adam Schiff of California “a liar” and “a failed lawyer” and asked him to “​​apologize” to the president for his work as an impeachment manager during Trump’s first term.

Bondi also baselessly claimed that Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island took money from one of Jeffrey Epstein’s “closest confidants,” and she accused Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut of lying about his military record.

I served in the Senate and participated in many oversight hearings during my time there, and I’ve never seen anything like what we witnessed during Bondi’s testimony on Tuesday. I’ve never seen that kind of behavior from any witness, much less the sitting attorney general of the United States.

It was a shocking, ugly and frankly embarrassing display, but it wasn’t Bondi’s behavior that really stunned me. What truly shocked me is that no Republican on the committee, not even Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa, spoke up when the attorney general of the United States spent the entirety of her questioning period with Democratic senators screaming, refusing to answer, and targeting them with ad hominem attacks.

 Claire is 100% correct.  

 

Bondi committed crimes in her testimony -- lying under oath is a crime.  These were lies.  She wrote them down ahead of time.  She read them from the page in front of her.  She intended to lie, premediated before the hearing came to order.

She was a joke and she looked as crazed and idiotic as Elisabeth Hasselbeck back when THE VIEW allowed Elizabeth's crazy to run free. 

 

Governor Gavin Newsom has a new nickname for Bondi:  “Pedophile-protector Pam.” 

That's fine but I was actually talking about that after the hearing with an Epstein survivor.  Bondi is a pedophile protector.  She enables it.  So, in the eyes of the law, that makes her a pedophile. There's nothing passive about her actions.  Pam Bondi has worked to bury the Epstein documents and she's watched -- if not enabled -- as Chump rewarded convicted pedophile Ghislaine Maxwell from a maximum security prison that a pedophile belongs in to "Camp Fed" in Bryan Texas.  So I think we can all her a pedophile.  I don't think it's stretching.  She's helping with the crime, she's covering up and that makes her an accomplice to the crime.

She repeatedly refused to answer questions about Tom Homan and the $50,000 dollars -- as though the public has no interest in nor right to know when a US official is taking bribes?  

This issue is not going away.  Lisandra Gomez-Tate (2PARAGRAPHS) reports:

Ryan Crosswell, a former attorney in the Department of Justice's Public Integrity Section, where he investigated public officials accused of abusing their power, appeared on CNN (below) and wrote: “I spent years prosecuting bribery cases at the DOJ. When a bag of cash changes hands, it's a solid case. But under Trump's DOJ, friends like Tom Homan get protection, opponents get prosecution.”

According to Crosswell, he resigned from the DOJ in March after he was “pressured to drop a case against a politician charged with corruption because he was a political ally of Donald Trump.”

(That politician was New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who was indicted in September 2024 on charges of bribery, fraud and soliciting illegal foreign campaign donations. In February 2025, the charges were dismissed by the U.S. Justice Department. Note: Adams dropped out of the 2025 mayoral race in September.)

Crosswell told Erin Burnett on CNN: “The most galling part about it is Pam Bondi has the audacity to say nobody is above the law. But we know that’s not true. Eric Adams is above the law. Tom Homan is above the law. And apparently anyone contained in the Epstein Files is above the law.”

Andrew Solender (AXIOS) adds:

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are escalating their investigation into the Trump administration's handling of bribery allegations against White House border czar Tom Homan, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: Democrats have seized on the allegations, which Homan and the White House have denied, as part of their anti-corruption message against President Trump and his team.

Senate Democrats grilled Attorney General Pam Bondi on the topic at a hearing Tuesday.

She said the Justice Department found no evidence of wrongdoing but did not say if Homan returned the purported $50,000 bribe, Axios' April Rubin reported.

Homan said in a Fox News interview last month he "did nothing illegal" and told NewsNation the reports were "bullsh*t," with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt saying Homan "never took the $50,000."

Driving the news: In a letter to Associate Attorney General Edmund Woodward, a group of House Democrats led by Judiciary Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) wrote that Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel "failed to answer" their initial letter on Homan last month.

"We write now to follow up and demand that you answer fundamental questions," they continued.

"Who knew about the Homan cash bribery scandal, when did they know it, and why was Mr. Homan appointed 'Border Czar' even in the face of such damning evidence of his taking bribes for government contracts?"

Zoom in: The lawmakers noted that Woodward led the vetting of potential candidates for administration jobs as part of Trump's 2024 transition team.

 

She didn't want to talk Epstein either.  Unless it was a Republican senator asking the question. Isaac Schorr (MEDIAITE) notes this exchange:

KENNEDY:  I’ve got to ask you about this, general. Secretary Howard Lutnick on October 1 gave an interview to The New York Post about Mr. Epstein. And he described Mr. Eppstein as, quote, “the greatest blackmailer ever,” close quote. Have you reviewed that transcript of that interview?

BONDI: I have not reviewed the transcript, but I saw the clip of it.

KENNEDY: Okay. It appears that Secretary Lutnick was Mr. Epstein’s next door neighbor. In fact, their townhomes shared a wall. And the reporter that was talking to Mr. Lutnick, she asked how other prominent men could have been associated with Epstein when Mr. Lutnick could immediately sense that he was a quote “pervert.” And then Secretary Lutnick said, or rather the reporter said, “Did they see it and ignore it?” Do you remember that from the interview?

BONDI: I do.

KENNEDY: And Commerce Secretary Lutnick said, “No, they participated.” And then Commerce Secretary Lutnick goes on to say, quote, “That’s what his MO was. You know, get a massage, get amassage. And what happened in that massage room, I assume was a video. This guy was the greatest blackmailer ever, blackmail people, that’s how he had money,” end quote. Is that true?

BONDI: Senator, as our July memo said, we did not uncover

evidence. This case has gone through three administrations, as well as former U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta-

KENNEDY: I know, I know, I know that, Pam! But have you interview Secretary Lutnick?

BONDI: No, Senator.

KENNEDY: Do you plan to?

BONDI: If he wants to talk to the FBI or the FBI wants to talk to him, that is more than on-

KENNEDY: Don’t you think you ought to talk to him after this interview?

BONDI: Senator, if Howard Lutnick wants to speak to the FBI, and if Director Patel wants to speak to Howard Lutnick, absolutely.

KENNEDY: Okay. Maybe we ought to get Mr. Lutnick in here too, Mr. Chairman.

 

Chump causes the shutdown and continues it in part to cover up for his involvement with pedophiles Jeffery Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

 

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Things are getting worse each day

Convicted Felon Donald Chump continues to target America and attempt to destroy the country.  Thom Hartmann explains:

People ask, “Are we there, yet? Has America gone fascist? Are we now in a militarized dictatorship?”

Last week’s illegal, unconstitutional military assault on an apartment building in Chicago argues “Yes.” And if it doesn’t stimulate a similar level of public outrage as the Jimmy Kimmel suspension did, we’re all screwed.

And by “all” I mean you, too. None of us are safe if all of us aren’t safe. We have to stand up and speak out now.

Trump, Vance, Hegseth, and Noem carefully selected a low-income apartment building filled with Black and Hispanic people, correctly believing that the American mainstream media wouldn’t give it the coverage they would if ICE and our military had instead kicked in the doors of a building full of middle-class white people.

Soldiers rapelled from Black Hawk helicopters as some 300 masked agents ran throughout the apartment building kicking in doors, dragging American citizens out (including near-naked children) into the street and zip-tying them for hours.

They then trashed multiple apartments, ripping up furniture, smashing windows, breaking and scattering possessions, and removing and carting away phones and laptops. No warrants signed by judges were presented and one ICE thug, when asked about the shivering American citizen kids standing in the freezing cold, said, “F--- the children.”

This is the exact same sort of thing that British forces did against the colonists in the 1770s that provoked our nation’s Founders to write in the Fourth Amendment to our Constitution:

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

MAGA is delighted; puppy-killer Noem claims people were “clapping in the streets,” although there doesn’t appear to be any evidence of that. MAGA folks seem to think that because they’re white they’re safe from attack by this regime.

But when they’re done with the brown folks, they’ll be coming for the wite people next. They’ll start with Democrats — Trump called them “Satan” last week — but history shows they won’t stop there.

If you are not yet getting how insane and out of control Mr. Chump is, Sean James (MEDIAITE) reports:

President Donald Trump is “seriously” considering invoking the Insurrection Act in order to more easily deploy National Guard troops to major cities as part of his push to thwart crime, NBC reported on Wednesday, based on “five people with knowledge” of the situation.

That is very disturbing.  Comments on the article:

user-25eu729t4s

1 hour ago

The only way for him to avoid prison for his hundreds of criminal actions is to stay in power.  To do that, he has to either start a real war, or get people to believe in a fake one, to rely on an ability to postpone elections.

Don Randall

15 minutes ago

The Insurrection Act of 1807 is the U.S. federal law that empowers the president of the United States to nationally deploy the U.S. military and to federalize the National Guard units of the individual states in specific circumstances, such as the suppression of civil disorder, of insurrection, and of armed rebellion.

He considers the legal and lawful protests as a reason to use American NG vs Americans.  God help us all!

Don Randall

15 minutes ago

The Insurrection Act of 1807 is the U.S. federal law that empowers the president of the United States to nationally deploy the U.S. military and to federalize the National Guard units of the individual states in specific circumstances, such as the suppression of civil disorder, of insurrection, and of armed rebellion.

He considers the legal and lawful protests as a reason to use American NG vs Americans.  God help us all!

He truly is the most disgusting person and most dangerous psychopath to ever hold office.  God, I beg you, please help us all. 

This is C.I.'s "The Snapshot" for today:

 Wednesday, October 8, 2025.  Attorney General Pam Bondi made a complete ass out of herself before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday.  Let's explore that.

Last night,  Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "daBimbo Bondi, Freak Of Her Own Party" went up.

Isaiah's latest THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "DaBImbo Bondi, Freak Of Her Own Party" Freak Show AG Pam daBimbo Bondi explains, "It's me daBimbo Bondi.  I acted the fool in the Senate today.  I showed the country why I have no man, why I hve no children.  I'm staring down 60 and in my party I'm a freak.  But I will never forget last November when fat ass Chump stood before me and said, "Pammy, you re just the right amount of stupid to be in my administration." Miss Sassy JD Vance heckles  Bondi by exclaiming, "Childless cat lady!"  Isaiah archives his comics at THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS. 

daBimbo Bondi appeared before the Senate Judiciary yesterday and caused quite the stir.  First, there was the odor.  She hd n inflated sense of self so it's always funny when an overly confident person thinks they are being so impressive but everyone around them thinks otherwise. She's smirking and acting like she's winning but all anyone's thinking is, "Does she not clean her vag?"  Because one person after another was talking about that odor.  I didn't smell it but I've got a cold and went into that hearing with menthol over all my resonators.  But Pam be stanky.  And how she couldn't know was what everyone was asking.  So when you see a video clip of her grasp that she stunk up the room and that's she's apparently so pathetic she doesn't even use soap and water -- and she really needs to.

After that, the thigs that stood out was the bad make up.  She really is staring down 60 -- next month -- as Isaiah noted in his cartoon.  On that, I just shake my head.  It's as though she learned how to put on make up in the 80s at Merle Norman.  Bags under the eyes do not disappear because you put make up on them but what the does accomplish is to make any wrinkles under the eye all the more visible.  Doesn't DoD have it's own private beauty salon now?  Miss Pete won't help her out?  

I stared at her awful performance and thought all she was missing was her throwing wine as she tried to come off not like an Attorney General but like a 'reality' TV performer.  In fact, let's drop back two decades to pull from Ava and my "TV Review: The Simple Life:"

"Where the hell are we?" is the last thing you hear as the opening credits end at the start of Fox's "reality" show The Simple Life. If you've missed the show, let's us put you wise, hell is apparently portable and seems to follow Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie around.

[. . .]

The most frightening thing for us was thinking that young viewers watching might think, "This is how to act. Paris & Nicole act this way and they were raised well, right?"

If nothing else, The Simple Life demonstrates that "money" and "good breeding" do not go hand in hand. Older viewers will probably get that point. Younger viewers will probably be salivating over the day when they too can wear push up bras, march around in stilettos and bark out orders like, "Take off your damn pants!"

Pam was as fake as any 'reality' TV performer and as screwed up in the head as any.  Cher has a favorite curse word.  I don't use that word.  I've never used it my entire life.  She uses it frequently.  That's her business, not judging her.  But if ever I was tempted to use it would be to describe Attorney General Pam daBimbo Bondi.  Pam kind of says it every time she says "country."  I don't go harsh on the "u" in the first syllable.  Pam does.  Maybe she's trying to share something with us about herself.

Let's pull in Lawrence O'Donnell's take from MSNBC last night.

He's going into Pam at the start of the above video.  Later in the program Senator Adam Schiff joins him.  My honest first reaction watchin lastnight was, "Oh s**t."  Because I planned to touch on Shiff here and usually if Lawrence touches on it, there's nothing more to say.  That's true of two topics they cover but I had a third and they didn't grb that so we will in a minute.

It's audio above, take it up with MSNBC.  I have no idea why so much is not going up at the MSNBC YOUTUBE page.  But let's note some video coverage before we unpack further.

 

Now let's move to the line of questioning that I think covered and reflected the hearing best.

Senator Mazie Hirano:  For the record, at your confirmation hearing, you said that you did not have experience with FISA but, if confirmed, you would consult with experts at DOJ.  Now that you've had that opportunity, do you support adding additional safeguards for searching American communications in the 702 database?   

AG Pam daBimbo Bondi: Senators, Section 702 is a vital source of foreign intelligence and instrumental in keeping Americans safe.  We also take individual rights of American -- they're individual rights of all American very seriously and many statutory reforms to FISA have incorporate safeguards. They have to incorporate our safeguards to protect our civil liberties. The Dept of Justice looks forward to working with you to discuss anything regarding 702. Appreciate that my staff and senator I also want to thank you for this hearing.*  Your staff met with my staff and I greatly appreciate that. Thank you.

Senator Mazie Hirano: Thank you. We're going to be working on 702 so I appreciate the openness to further amending 702.  At your confirmation hearing, you assured me that it is the Dept of Justice's decision to determine what cases will be prosecuted. Last month in the US, US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was forced out. President Trump then posted the message [displayed on the screen] behind me asking about prosecuting James Comey.  You then appointed a new US Attorney who within days secured an indictment against James Comey. That social media post behind me says what about Kobe was directed to Pam. Are you the Pam the president was referring to?  

AG Pam daBimbo Bondi:  I'm sure I was. 

Senator Mazie Hirano: So it's very clear to me that when the president posts something like that, that he considers the DOJ to be his law firm and you his lawyer.  And in fact, very shortly after the post to you, Comey gets indicted.  President Trump's new border czar Tom Homan was video taped taking a bag with $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents after suggesting that he could help with government contracts.  Sounds like a bribe. Did DOJ officials shut down the bribery investigation into Mr Homan? Ms Bondi, did you approve closing the Homan investigation? Bribery investigation?

AG Pam daBimbo Bondi:  Senator Hirano, as I stated earlier, the Dept of Justice and the FBI conducted a thorough review and they found no credible evidence of any wrong doing.  You were also on video outside the White House protesting with a group called Cava where Antifa members were. Does that mean you're a member of Antifa?

Senator Mazie Hirano:  No, I simply asked the question as to whether or not you approved the shutting down of the investigation of Mr Homan.  I have to assume you did because the FBI, it reports to you. But the American people would look at this situation where the person is taking $50,000 -- $50,000 in cash, no less.  And you testified today that a thorough investigation was done. Now I have to assume -- I conclude -- that since no wrongdoing was determined that -- in answer to Senator Whitehouse's question -- he [Homan] kept the money.  He kept the money and I hope that he put that on his tax returns as income. Next question.  Over 1200 rioters were convicted of charges related to January 6th   President Trump has since pardoned nearly every one of them.  As if that weren't enough, last month there were reports that a lawyer for the January 6th rioters met with senior DOJ officials about setting up a compensation fund  -- a compensation fund like the one Congress set up after 911 -- to compensate these rioters.   Miss Bondi, is anyone at DOJ considering setting up a compensation fund for January 6th rioters?  Yes or no? 

AG Pam daBimbo Bondi:  Senator, I have had no meetings or discussions about a fund.

Senator Mazie Hirano: So would you support such a fund? 

AG Pam daBimbo Bondi:  Senator, you can send me the information on the fund and I'll be happy to look at it.

Senator Mazie Hirano: But do you think that's a good idea to, you know, this is what I'm getting at, because just to actually set up a fund and have people talking with your senior people at DOJ -- political people -- about creating a fund and you won't let us know what you think about that . . . Yeah, that's pretty unbelievable. On January 30th of this year, the Trump DOJ's anti-trust division sued to block the merger of two tech companies.  Then well connected lobbyists met with your political deputies who overruled the career staff and approved the merger.  So there's a settlement on that. And, separately, DOJ sued TicketMaster last year for monopolizing concert tickets and forcing consumers to pay outrageous fees.  TicketMaster has hired the exact same lobbyist who met with senior DOJ political people regarding the merger of the two tech companies. So my question is, Ms Bondi, have lobbyists met with your political deputies about the TicketMaster case? 

AG Pam daBimbo Bondi:  Senator Hirano, as I stated earlier, I am not going to discuss anything that is ongoing.  Gail Slater runs the anti-trust division. 

Senator Mazie Hirano: And I was -- 

AG Pam daBimbo Bondi: Gale Slater, if I can finish, Gale Slater is doing an incredible job running my anti-trust unit. 

Senator Mazie Hirano: It's highly likely, Ms Bondi, that the same lobbyist who met with your people basically got rid of the anti-trust case.

AG Pam daBimbo Bondi: Senator, I don't think a lot of people like that you were out protesting with Antifa. 

Senator Mazie Hirano: Right now, next question, you have fired dozens of career prosecutors because they worked on cases involving President Trump or January 6 rioters. For example, one career federal prosecutor secured -- who secured over 100 convictions in Florida.  He also spent time in DC prosecuting January 6th cases. He received an outstanding review only two days before you signed a memo firing him.  The memo cited no reason for his firing.  Are you firing career prosecutors solely because they worked on cases like January 6th that the president doesn't like?  

AG Pam daBimbo Bondi: Senator Hirano, I'm not going to talk about personnel matters with you. 

Senator Mazie Hirano:  Well we all know that hundreds of career prosecutors have left the DOJ and literally hundreds of were told --

AG Pam daBimbo Bondi:  Senator, I 

[Cross talk]

AG Pam daBimbo Bondi:  Are you an ICE officer?  Are you a Homeland Security Officer?  Are you?

 

[Cross talk]

Senator Mazie Hirano:  But just say that DOJ losing these career prosecutors and the thousands of hours of experience they have prosecuting criminals, that is not a reassuring situation.  

AG Pam daBimbo Bondi [note in this statement, she stops and starts and talks over Hirano non-stop]:  Senator, many employees took the fork in the road and resigned.  DOJ is hiring committed prosecutors who will actually come into the office and work and not work remotely and prosecute violent criminals around the country and terrorists. And I'm very proud of the work all of our 

[Crosstalk]

Senator Mazie Hirano:  I'm running out of time so I think you should stop with your continuous interruptions. In my opinion, Mr Chairman, I just want to close by saying that what was once the Dept of Justice has become the Dept of Revenge and Corruption. Rather than pursue cases without fear or favor, this DOJ seeks to favor the president's friends and instill fear in his alleged enemies. If you're a friend of the president, this corrupt DOJ will bend over backwards to help you.  Just like it dropped the bribery investigation on Tom Homan, like it's considering paying money to January 6th rioters and like it has put anti-trust decisions in the hands of well connected lobbyists.  But if you're on the wrong side of this president, you will face the wrath of DOJ no matter what the facts, law, or justice support. James Comey is indicted days after the President social media directive.  Experienced career prosecutors are fired just because they were assigned to work on January 6th cases. Blue states are sued to get highly sensitive, private voter data whereas red states are left alone. The double standard is clear and the American people are waking up to the corruption and the favoritism and the lawlessness of the DOJ. 

So much in the above.  First, Antifa?  What was that attack, what was that smear?  This isn't appropriate.  And it's inappropriate in a manner that people are missing.  With Senator Sheldon Whitehouse she would attack his wife and imply that some shady corrupt deals went down.  With Senator Dick Durbin, she would attack him for one of the donors to his campaign.  And this really ties into Adam Schiff.

Chump has long targeted Adam Schiff.  He wants him prosecuted for whatever trumped up charge they can find.  He mentioned Adam in the social media post to Bondi about him wanting Comey charged.

Here's the only significant thing Bondi did in the hearing:  Gave Adam a pass.  If he is charged with anything, all Adam's attorney needs to do is show the way she attacked him in the hearing.  It wasn't objective.  It wasn't appropriate.  It was filled with malice.  And I think a jury would quickly agree that Bonid came off unhinged and appears to let personal feelings determine who she charges.

But with her threats and with Antifa being labeled a terrorist organization by her and Chump?  Was it really the role of the AG to bring thses things up in  hearing because they could also be seen as veiled threats due to the position she holds.

She's a dumb bimbo, she doesn't et any of that.  She can scream 'are you an attorney' at Schiff all she wants, she's still not a person with common sense.

With Hirano above, she refused to answer questions regarding Homan taking $50,000 from undercover FBI agents.  She repeatedly invoked "personnel matters" -- as though it was the Fifth Amendment -- with senators asking about Homan.  That's not a personal matter.  That would be a crime.  And it is in the public interest to know whether or not Tom Homan took a bribe.  She doesn't want to be ccountble and she doesn't want to answer questions.

When not refusing to answer with the claim that something was a personnel issue and she wasn't going to comment, Pam would insist that she couldn't comment on an ongoing investigation.

Is Homan now the subject of an ongoing investigation?

If not, there's no reason for her to avoid the question.

But she doesn't think that she works for the American people.  For example it is "my anti-trust unit."  No, Bondi, it's the American people's anti-trust unit.

She has no concept of what government is and that goes to the reality that Chump chose the most ignorant people in the world to serve in the administration. 

She disrespected the Senate yesterday.  They were doing the people's business so her lies and scorn were aimed at the American people.  Only an idiot would treat their boss that way.  Donald Chump is not her boss.  The American people are.  She made very clear that she doesn't believe -- despite being a public servant -- that she has any duty to serve the American people and that she doesn't feel she's answerable to them.

She's an idiot and a moron and that came through loudly over and over.  Senator Cory Booker asked about grants that had been cut and the appeal process for them.  She  "And I believe one is with the city of New Jersey."  Idiot.  There's no city of New Jersey in the state of New Jersey.  Or take when she was yelling at Adam Schiff and screeching that he needed "to apologize to Donald Trump for trying to impeach him,"  

She doesn't even know the law.  We get that right?

Adam Schiff wasn't part of an effort to try to impeach Chump.

Chump was impeached.  Twice.  He wasn't removed from office but he was impeached.

But she's such a stupid idiot.

That's what really shined through in her testimony yesterday.

If she wanted to look like  stark raving bitch -- Congrats, Pam, you'll pulled that off.  Throughout the hearin, she had to rely on his huge binder and was constntly reding from it.  Even reding from it, she couldn't get the English language correct.  

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