Attorney General Pam Bondi’s appearance before the House Oversight Committee behind closed doors will be a far cry from her combative and abrasive performance before the House Judiciary Committee in February that created problems for Donald Trump’s White House.
With a surprising five votes from Republicans on the committee calling for the embattled Trump appointee to be subpoenaed, Bondi will not have the luxury of arguing and filibustering hostile questions with an eye on the clock ticking down for five to ten minutes.
According to Politico legal expert Ankush Khardori, a former federal prosecutor, under different rules, the raving Bondi, who frustrated lawmakers and made herself an object of national scorn over her refusal to acknowledge Jeffrey Epstein survivors, will be forced to face the music.
“Now, hopefully, because this is behind closed doors, she'll be able to control herself,” he told host Anna Cabrera. “But of course, at her last public outing, her testimony, she behaved like an all-around crazy person and yelled at anyone who asked her a question and insulted a whole bunch of Epstein's victims in the process.”
“I mean, it was a whole mess,” he remarked. “So, you know, she has not done well; she doesn't do well in these settings, but perhaps if it's behind closed doors, she'll feel less of an urge to sort of play to the cameras and play to social media and play to Trump.”