A former Republican strategist and staunch critic of President Donald Trump shredded Attorney General Pam Bondi's "venomous" appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday in a new essay.
Rick Wilson, who co-founded The Lincoln Project, argued in a new Substack essay that Bondi displayed "performative outrage" during the hearing. She vociferously attacked Democratic Senators who asked questions about President Donald Trump's efforts to hide the Jeffrey Epstein files and deploy federal troops to Democratic-run states and cities.
"Today’s Senate Judiciary performance wasn’t testimony; it was crude, overacted scenery-chewing regional dinner theater for the Trump base, a MAGA striptease dance of performative outrage and imaginary grievance where facts went to die and the only rule is 'Never let the truth stand in the way of fellating Trump’s revenge fantasies and galactic ego,'" Wilson wrote.
Wilson added that Bondi's theatrical performance seemed to have an audience of one.
"Bondi strutted in, dialed the volume to eleven, and delivered the full martyrdom package: a sneering, venomous performance laced with sanctimony and shamelessness, larded with constant personal attacks against every Democratic Senator in the room, replete with wild accusations and wilder denials," Wilson wrote.
"MAGA will think she won today, but on the biggest question in Trump’s cobwebbed brain, she blew it," he continued. "On Jeffrey Epstein, she failed to exonerate Trump, defend the coverup with anything even vaguely logical, and made the stench of her ongoing coverup even more rancid."