There’s a double standard in congressional hearings, particularly when it’s a Republican White House, and even more so when that Republican president is Donald Trump: The party that’s not in the Oval Office can act as crudely and reprehensibly as possible, and the administration is supposed to pretend that this is a deadly serious event and not wholesale grandstanding.

The Trump White House has stopped playing along. And, while this was an unpopular opinion from Attorney GeneralPam Bondi’sappearances this week before the House Judiciary Committee, this is the right move.

As you’re probably aware of from the news coverage of the pseudo-events, Democrats this week were again forced to pretend they cared about the Jeffrey Epstein documents, a tranche they mysteriously didn’t give a darn about about when Joe Biden was president. And, on a certain segment of Democrat-friendly media, they were giddy about the opportunity.

Here’s Kurt Bardella — formerly of the NeverTrumper Lincoln Project, now of NewsNation — posting about prospective questions Democrats could ask her during the House Judiciary Committee hearing:

JUST ANNOUNCED: House Judiciary Committee will hold an oversight over DOJ hearing with AG Pam Bondi on Wednesday, February 11th.

What questions should@RepRaskin@RepSwalwell@tedlieu@RepJayapal@RepJoeNeguse@RepDanGoldman@RepJasmine@JaredEMoskowitzask her?pic.twitter.com/c32AuhQYR0

— Kurt Bardella (@kurtbardella)February 6, 2026

None of them were especially serious and most of it was, quite predictably, a stunt. Bondi came prepared for a stunt show, particularly when the predictably obnoxious Democratic Rep.Pramila Jayapalof Washington got some of Epstein’s victims to show up for a photo op. It ended as it should have: in a shouting match.

Attorney General Pam Bondi rebuffed a request from Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) to turn around and address victims of Jeffrey Epstein who were in the audience of a House Judiciary Committee hearing, resulting in a shouting match during which the attorney general accused the…pic.twitter.com/hQaV3iCv4A

— The Hill (@thehill)February 11, 2026

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