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48. MaddowBlog-AG Pam Bondi refused to answer key questions, and Adam Schiff kept the receipts

Wed Oct 8, 2025, 04:03 PM

Oct 8

Over several hours, the attorney general was unprofessional and partisan, but most importantly, she was evasive, rejecting important lines of inquiry.

AG Pam Bondi was unprofessional and partisan, but most importantly, she was evasive, refusing to answer good questions she didnâ€™t like.

Fortunately, Adam Schiff kept the receipts. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-10-08T13:48:39.368Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/ag-pam-bondi-refused-answer-key-questions-adam-schiff-kept-receipts-rcna236327

The U.S. attorney general has traditionally been known as “the people’s lawyer.” Attorney General Pam Bondi, however, has gone out of her way to position herself as Donald Trump’s lawyer......

But it was the same California senator who also used the opportunity to share some of the receipts he’d collected over the course of the proceedings. As The New Republic noted:

Democratic Senator Adam Schiff of California took Attorney General Pam Bondi to task Tuesday for her incessant deflections and evasions throughout a Senate judiciary hearing. Bondi had verbally attacked Democratic senators throughout the hearing rather than answer their questions. Schiff was, evidently, keeping track of questions Bondi left unanswered, and he ran through the lengthy (yet inexhaustive) list.

It was arguably the most memorable exchange of the frustrating hearing.

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-10-07T17:29:23.535Z

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 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 run-up 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.

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Bondi to Sen. Schiff as he was reading the list of ?s she refused to answer. "Do you have a law degree?" [View all] Botany Oct 7 OP

What was his answer? Ocelot II Oct 7 #1

He refused to take the bait. She was trying to change the subject from ?s she refused to answer to Schiff. Botany Oct 7 #5

I think he ignored her and kept on his strategy. A real stupid question from Bondi, I'll add Deuxcents Oct 7 #6

Very stupid indeed PatSeg Oct 7 #20

Unprepared is their approach to everything BaronChocula Oct 7 #35

Their arrogance and hubris has gone to their heads PatSeg Oct 7 #39

Methinks the benefit of a cult BaronChocula Oct 7 #42

That's a good point PatSeg Oct 8 #47

Gestapo Barbie intended that to be... Wuddles440 Oct 7 #38

Yes, knowing she is on camera, PatSeg Oct 7 #40

Bondi.....no control over her mouth...obnoxious, loud, pushy, wrong, dare I say, evil. Ninga Oct 7 #2

Gestapo Barbie The Blue Flower Oct 7 #4

She's a hard case. She got all huffy when one senator said they didn't believe her. Walleye Oct 7 #3

Yes you are a liar. And kacekwl Oct 7 #8

Well, I'm implying it, but if that's not clear enough for you .... nt eppur_se_muova Oct 7 #10

Why yes we are proud patriot Oct 7 #32

Punching way up there Blondy. Her Stetson Klarkashton Oct 7 #7

She was insipid and unprofessional. yellow dahlia Oct 7 #9

The disembodied shrill voice of hers "Ooooversight?!?" underpants Oct 7 #11

When I heard that I thought rurallib Oct 7 #12

And here's Bondi's educational record: Gaugamela Oct 7 #13

Not quite the same as Stanford, Harvard Law, clerk for a judge on the federal bench, assistant U.S. attorney Botany Oct 7 #15

There's a Stetson University? LisaM Oct 7 #30

It's where you go to learn how to swagger and wear a big hat. Gaugamela Oct 7 #31

It's not a bad law school, ranked #99 in Best Law Schools by USNWR, considered a tier 3 or 4 law school. sop Oct 7 #37

Looks from those dates that she didn't pass the bar on the first try. SunSeeker Oct 7 #36

Well, they're used to having totally unqualified people OnionPatch Oct 7 #14

How disrespectful. The same should be asked of her. Katinfl Oct 7 #16

Agree, and . . . otchmoson Oct 7 #23

I tink she got her law degree from Stetson in FL. Katinfl Oct 7 #34

I thought it was particularly ridiculous nilram Oct 7 #17

Being a U.S. Attorney is not a walk off the street and fill out an application type of job. Botany Oct 7 #19

Being Trump's US Attorney General mainly involves a loyalty pledge. nilram Oct 7 #22

Trump owns her and has since 2013 when he paid her 25 K to not investigate Trump U. as A.G. for Florida Botany Oct 7 #24

...and having nice boobs....... lastlib Oct 7 #28

Perhaps because of her snarkiness, people may look up Schiff's credentials for themselves. pacalo Oct 8 #43

I never say this about anyone, but she is a c*nt. Joinfortmill Oct 7 #18

A petty point otchmoson Oct 7 #21

I had to stop watching or else BigmanPigman Oct 7 #25

Opposition Research bmichaelh Oct 7 #26

The question about taking money from anyone associated with Epstein louis-t Oct 7 #29

At one of the recent social events with Trump, Bondi looked drunk. Irish_Dem Oct 7 #27

At a bare minimum, drunk with power. n/t Beartracks Oct 7 #33

That too. Irish_Dem Oct 8 #45

She kept rubbing her nose with her forefinger, I noticed. pacalo Oct 8 #44

Was she sniffing too? Another sign. Irish_Dem Oct 8 #46

I was happy he didn't take the bait. pat_k Oct 7 #41

MaddowBlog-AG Pam Bondi refused to answer key questions, and Adam Schiff kept the receipts LetMyPeopleVote Oct 8 #48