Pam Bondi: History’s Smarmiest Attorney General

Her binder wasn’t full of facts, but of insults, securing her place in the ignoble roll call of those who betrayed their oath.

Pam Bondi’s contemptuous Senate hearing performance was shocking in style. She arrived armed not with briefing materials or case law but with a thick binder of opposition research on Democratic senators, pages scrawled with insults and ready-made smears. When close-up cameras caught a glimpse, you could read her notes like a high-school burn book: A few key exchanges show the pattern.

On Donald Trump in the Epstein files

• Question: “Did the DOJ flag that Donald Trump’s name appears in the Epstein files?”

• Bondi: “I’m not going to respond to you on that.”

Rather than deny or clarify, she refused outright, not even pretending to account for her department’s handling of the most politically explosive evidence before her.

On Tom Homan’s $50,000 cash payoff

• Question: “Is there a tape of Mr. Homan accepting $50,000 in cash at a restaurant?”

• Bondi: “You would have to talk to Director Patel about that.”

• Follow-up: “No, I’m talking to you.”

• Bondi: “I don’t know the answer, Senator.”

Ignorance as a shield.