Late night television shows criticized U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi after she was questioned in a House oversight committee about the government’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Bondi was grilled on Capitol Hill by the Judiciary Committee on Wednesday about her handling of files associated with Epstein, a convicted sex offender who died in a New York jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
After the hearing, The Daily Show host Jordan Klepper said Bondi was “acting like a bratty senior who got called into the principal’s office.”
“Her performance upset a lot of people because they were hoping for justice for Jeffrey Epstein’s victims but for Pam Bondi, there’s only one victim in all of this,” he said, before clips of Bondi attacking Democrats for criticizing Donald Trump during the hearing.
Jimmy Kimmel on Jimmy Kimmel Live said: “If you lived next door to her, you’d move.” He also criticized her for talking about the economy during the hearing instead of the Epstein files and for “shouting like a crazed dance mom” when Democrats asked her questions.
“It’s like speaking to a teenage girl,” he said. “If she keeps talking like that Epstein is going to come back from the dead and ask for a massage.”
During the Wednesday hearing, Bondi addressed survivors during her opening statement, saying she was “deeply sorry” for what they suffered and that “any accusations of criminal wrongdoing will be taken seriously and investigated.”
Representative Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, accused Bondi of failing to properly redact some victims’ names, calling it “jaded cruelty,” and alleged she ignored the law.
Bondi aggressively pivoted in an extraordinary speech in which she mocked her Democratic questioners and praised Trump over on the stock market’s performance. “You sit here and you attack the president and I’m not going to have it,” Bondi told lawmakers. “I am not going to put up with it.”
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