{"id":34944,"date":"2026-02-11T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/jewish-democrat-storms-out-of-pam-bondi-hearing-as-ag-invokes-anti-semitism-during-epstein-grilling\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:07:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:07:00","slug":"jewish-democrat-storms-out-of-pam-bondi-hearing-as-ag-invokes-anti-semitism-during-epstein-grilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/jewish-democrat-storms-out-of-pam-bondi-hearing-as-ag-invokes-anti-semitism-during-epstein-grilling\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Democrat STORMS OUT of Pam Bondi hearing as AG invokes anti-Semitism during Epstein grilling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Pam Bondi traded barbs with just about every <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/democrats\/index.html\" id=\"mol-afaea000-0793-11f1-94df-a9886585547e\">Democrat<\/a> on the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday in a ferocious hearing over the Epstein files.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/donald_trump\/index.html\" id=\"mol-1812c920-0792-11f1-a8a0-2ba064c28d4b\" class>Donald Trump<\/a>&#8216;s Attorney Generalcaused mayhem as she fired back at lawmakers, branding Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin &#8216;a loser&#8217;, accusing Republican Thomas Massie of &#8216;Trump Derangement Syndrome&#8217; and sparking laughter as she ranted about the booming stock market.<\/p>\n<p>Bondi&#8217;s combative performance led to a total meltdown from Rep. Becca Balint who stormed out of the hearing after the Attorney General seemingly grew frustrated by one of many questions about <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/jeffrey_epstein\/index.html\" id=\"mol-3fea3070-0795-11f1-94df-a9886585547e\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>, and launched into an attack on the Democrat&#8217;s voting record &#8211; accusing her of antisemitism for not supporting <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/israel-hamas-conflict\/index.html\" id=\"mol-18284cf0-0792-11f1-a8a0-2ba064c28d4b\">Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Balint was the first Jewish <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/us-congress\/index.html\" id=\"mol-afae51e0-0793-11f1-94df-a9886585547e\" class>congress<\/a> member to use the term &#8216;genocide&#8217; to describe the war in <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/palestine\/index.html\" id=\"mol-18271470-0792-11f1-a8a0-2ba064c28d4b\" class>Gaza<\/a><a class rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/balint.house.gov\/news\/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=603\">.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;With this antisemitic culture, she voted against a resolution condemning&#8230;&#8217; Bondi said, before being interrupted by Balint.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You want to go there? . You&#8217;re talking to a woman who lost her grandfather in the Holocaust,&#8217; Balint responded, before slamming her chair into the dais behind her and storming out of the room, fuming.<\/p>\n<p>Balint repeatedly asked Bondi if her department has investigated the ties top Trump administration leaders have to Epstein, at one point stating &#8216;this is not a game, secretary,&#8217; to which Bondi responded: &#8216;I&#8217;m attorney general.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;My apologies, I couldn&#8217;t tell,&#8217; Balint jabbed back.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before the House Committee on the Judiciary during an oversight hearing, at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC on February 11, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Representative Becca Balint, a Vermont Democrat, questions Attorney General Pam Bondi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The AG earlier furiously clashed with Democratic Representative Jamie Raskin of <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/maryland\/index.html\" id=\"mol-0d939270-0771-11f1-af92-a31ccf0a9dfc\" class>Maryland<\/a>, who accused Bondi of filibustering after she rebutted the lawmaker&#8217;s attacks with remarkable range, even referring to the booming <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/stock-market\/index.html\" id=\"mol-17f0a8b0-0772-11f1-af92-a31ccf0a9dfc\">stock market<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I told you about that, Attorney General, before you started speaking,&#8217; Raskin said.<\/p>\n<p>Bondi snarled back: &#8216;You don&#8217;t tell me anything. You washed-up loser, you&#8217;re not even a lawyer.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Before his <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/us-elections-2024\/index.html\" id=\"mol-0d973bf0-0771-11f1-af92-a31ccf0a9dfc\">election<\/a> to Congress, Raskin was a professor at American University Washington College of Law.<\/p>\n<p>The AG also fired back when Democratic Representative Pramila Jayapal of Washington invited her to apologize to Epstein&#8217;s victims, beckoning women inside the hearing room to stand up and raise their hands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Will you turn to the survivors now and apologize for what your DOJ has put them through with the absolutely unacceptable release of the Epstein Files and their [private] information?&#8217; Jayapal asked.<\/p>\n<p>Bondi erupted: &#8216;I&#8217;m not going to get in the gutter with her,&#8217; she said, addressing committee chairman Jim Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>She instead attacked former Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland for failing to release the files.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on February 11<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Some victims of Epstein and their supporters at the hearing. They raise hands to signify that they had not met with representatives of the Department of Justice about their cases<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Representative Jamie Raskin (Democrat, Maryland), the ranking member of the committee, top center, with Chairman Jim Jordan (Republican, Ohio) on his right, questioning Bondi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Thomas Massie (Republican, Kentucky), left, grills the Attorney General at the hearing<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Epstein and Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, in 1997<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Raskin, thecommittee&#8217;s ranking member, excoriated Bondi as the hearing kicked off, stating: &#8216;This performance screams cover-up.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;As Attorney General, you&#8217;re siding with the perpetrators, and you&#8217;re ignoring the victims that will leave your legacy unless you act quickly to change course.You&#8217;re running a massive Epstein cover-up right out of the Department of Justice,&#8217; Raskin said.<\/p>\n<p>Bondi responded to Raskin&#8217;s attacks in her opening statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;To address the Epstein files, more than 500 attorneys and reviewers spent thousands of hours painstakingly reviewing millions of pages to comply with Congress&#8217;s law,&#8217; Bondi stated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We&#8217;ve released more than three million pages, including 180,000 images, all to the public, while doing our very best in the timeframe allotted by legislation to protect victims,&#8217; she continued.<\/p>\n<p>Bondi added that if &#8216;you brought us a victim&#8217;s name that was inordinately released, we immediately redacted.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;All members of Congress, as you know, are invited to visit the DoJ to see for yourself,&#8217; the Attorney General said.<\/p>\n<p>Bondi then went on to address the Epstein victims in the room.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Bondi addressed the Epstein victims in the hearing, saying that &#8216;any accusation of criminal wrongdoing will be taken seriously&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Bondi later touted wins of the Trump administration that have little to do with the DoJ&#8217;s work<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Representative Pramila Jayapal, Democrat of Washington state, sits in front of a poster of an email from the Epstein files as she questions Bondi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-mol-fe-xpmodule-join-debate=\"{\"env\":{\"brand\":\"dailymail\",\"channel\":\"news\",\"geo\":\"us\",\"platform\":\"mol.web.desktop\",\"url\":\"\/news\/article-15550347\/Pam-Bondi-Epstein-files-scandal-performance-screams-cover-up.html?ns_mchannel=rss&#038;ns_campaign=1490&#038;ito=1490\",\"environment\":\"production\",\"name\":\"mol-fe-xpmodule-join-debate-default@1\",\"version\":\"1.2.0\",\"xForwardedHost\":\"www.dailymail.co.uk\",\"zkConfig\":{\"bundle-versions\":{\"default\":{\"bv\":\"18.4.3\",\"vbv\":\"7.15.2\",\"fesbv\":\"15.59.4\",\"feabv\":\"11.51.1\",\"abv\":\"10.52.0\",\"expire-after\":31536000,\"tag\":\"fe_desktop_default\"},\"sciencetech\":{\"abv\":\"next-release.f54fccd\",\"tag\":\"fe_ads\"},\"health\":{\"abv\":\"next-release.f54fccd\",\"tag\":\"fe_ads\"},\"ushealth\":{\"abv\":\"next-release.f54fccd\",\"tag\":\"fe_ads\"},\"lifestyle\":{\"abv\":\"next-release.f54fccd\",\"tag\":\"fe_ads\"},\"uslifestyle\":{\"abv\":\"next-release.f54fccd\",\"tag\":\"fe_ads\"},\"aulifestyle\":{\"abv\":\"next-release.f54fccd\",\"tag\":\"fe_ads\"}},\"bundle-versions-mobile\":{\"default\":{\"bv\":\"12.6.0\",\"vbv\":\"7.15.2\",\"fesbv\":\"15.59.4\",\"feabv\":\"11.51.1\",\"abv\":\"10.52.0\",\"expire-after\":31536000,\"tag\":\"fe_mobile_default\"},\"sciencetech\":{\"abv\":\"next-release.f54fccd\",\"tag\":\"fe_ads\"},\"health\":{\"abv\":\"next-release.f54fccd\",\"tag\":\"fe_ads\"},\"ushealth\":{\"abv\":\"next-release.f54fccd\",\"tag\":\"fe_ads\"},\"lifestyle\":{\"abv\":\"next-release.f54fccd\",\"tag\":\"fe_ads\"},\"uslifestyle\":{\"abv\":\"next-release.f54fccd\",\"tag\":\"fe_ads\"},\"aulifestyle\":{\"abv\":\"next-release.f54fccd\",\"tag\":\"fe_ads\"}}}},\"question\":\"Has the Epstein grilling turned into political theatre?\"}\" data-reactroot>\n<p><span>Join the debate<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Has the Epstein grilling turned into political theatre?<\/p>\n<p><a data-comment-cta-button=\"true\" data-open-comments=\"true\" target=\"_top\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/#comments\"><span>Comment now<\/span><span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8216;I want to take a moment to acknowledge the Epstein survivors who are here today,&#8217; she noted, adding that &#8216;theFBI is waiting to hear&#8217; from victims.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I want you to know that any accusation of criminal wrongdoing will be taken seriously and investigated,&#8217; Bondi also stated.<\/p>\n<p>Bondi then touted wins of the Trump administration that have little to do with the Department of Justice&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They are talking about Epstein today. This has been around since the Obama administration&#8230; The Dow is over $50,000 right now Americans&#8217; 401 (k) s and retirement savings are booming. That&#8217;s what we should be talking about,&#8217; Bondi noted.<\/p>\n<p>During a later exchange with Jordan, Bondi was also asked to weigh in on the controversy regarding former CNN host Don Lemon, when she noted that the DoJ &#8216;will always protect our churches and the freedom of religion.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Massie of Kentucky also clashed with Bondi as he skewered the AG for not complying with the Epstein Files Transparency act which he spearheaded through Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Massie launched a blistering attack on Bondi for not properly redacting the names of victims, and for improperly redacting the name and photograph of Les Wexner, an alleged conspirator of Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Are you able to track who it was that obscured Les Wexner&#8217;s name as a co-conspirator in an FBI document?&#8217; Massie asked.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Representative Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, questions Attorney General Pam Bondi as she testifies before a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Capitol Hill<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Attorney General Pam Bondi arrives to testify on Capitol Hill<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Bondi wears red soled heels to her testimony on Capitol Hill<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Sky Roberts (C), brother of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking victim Virginia Giuffre, attends a hearing of Oversight of the Department of Justice with US Attorney General Pamela Bondi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A Jeffrey Epstein abuse survivor attends the testimony of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8216;We corrected it within 40 minutes&#8217;, Bondi replied.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Within 40 minutes of me catching you red-handed,&#8217; Massie responded.<\/p>\n<p>Bondi punched back with her own fiery attacks, accusing Massie of having &#8216;Trump derangement syndrome&#8217; and being a &#8216;failed politician.&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pam Bondi traded barbs with just about every Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday in a ferocious hearing over the Epstein files. 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