'Hypocrite!' Pam Bondi's attack notes snapped by photographer during contentious hearing

Attorney General Pam Bondi drew reactions from those watching her appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, when, instead of answering specific questions from Democrats, she turned to attack them personally.

Bondi attacked Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) over a campaign talking point from more than 15 years ago about his service as a U.S. Marine. She claimed Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) took money from someone who knew sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

When it came to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file that provided her with the lines to use in attacking the Senators.

At the top of a folder was a tweet from Whitehouse from July in which he called for ethics investigations into members of the U.S. Supreme Court who may have violated rules.

The second note reads "Whitehouse" in bold letters, then fed Bondi the line, "You claim to be a social justice warrior, but you're a member of the Senate," and then cuts off in the photo. The next line reads, "You rail against dark money but you work with dark money groups." The third bullet point was underlined in blue pen, reading, "You talk about corruption but you push for legislation that would ....," and cuts off. The fourth bullet point read simply, "You're a total hypocrite."

She didn't appear to use the attacks, however.

In a handwritten note below the lines, one talking point that she did attempt to deploy.

"If asked admit personnel or firings — I'll tell you a personnel issue that I'm [missing word] agents are on the streets keeping America [missing words] a paycheck b/c you voted to shut [missing words]."

Several times, Bondi ignored questions about personnel matters by saying outright she refused to answer the question or by attacking the Democrat, saying they voted to shut down the government.

Finally, a note that she used several times, that was also handwritten, read, "Epstein— Did you take $ from Reid Hoffman???"

Hoffman appeared to know Epstein and gave money to Democratic officials, thereby connecting a Democratic member to Epstein through a few degrees of separation. Democrats have specifically asked for information about President Donald Trump's direct relationship with Epstein and demanded that they turn over the entire investigation files.