Pam Bondi Inadvertently Shows Handwritten Attack Notes At Hearing | EUROtoday

A day after Attorney General Pam Bondi’s contentious Tuesday look earlier than the Senate Judiciary Committee, pictures that seize the contents of a folder of her ready notes for the listening to is stirring discourse on-line.

Bondi’s handwritten phrases are clearly legible in close-up photographs taken by Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst, as is a screenshot of a 2024 social media put up by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), and a typed, bullet-pointed record of strains meant to be directed at Whitehouse.

“You rail against dark money, but work with dark money groups,” one in all Bondi’s assault strains reads, adopted by: “You are a total hypocrite.”

In a handwritten observe, Bondi plans to ask Whitehouse if he ever took cash from tech billionaire and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, a one-time affiliate of the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

By Wednesday afternoon, Bondi’s notes had been extensively circulated ― and dissected ― on social media.

While some famous that arriving to the listening to ready “puts her above most of” the Trump administration “competency wise,” others had been extra vital.

“Telling isn’t it, that their notes aren’t filled with stats and facts to back up their positions, but name calling and personal attacks against the Dem senators,” one particular person wrote on Bluesky.

Another particular person on X wrote, “You only need notes if you aren’t testifying truthfully from memory.”

Though Bondi didn’t use any of her deliberate assaults, her look at Tuesday’s listening to was nothing in need of combative. For hours, the lawyer common reinstated her devotion to President Donald Trump by dodging questions from Democratic senators on the Epstein recordsdata and the president’s concentrating on of his political foes.

When requested by Whitehouse about Trump’s ties to Epstein, Bondi turned the tables and recommended he ought to be extra involved about his personal tangential hyperlink to the financier, who died by suicide in 2019 whereas awaiting trial on expenses of intercourse trafficking underage women.