A Reckoning is Coming
It's only a matter of time.
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By now, I imagine you’ve seen at least a few clips of the absolute jackassery from Pam Bondi during yesterday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing. It was one of the saddest displays I can remember in modern American politics—someone treating an issue this serious with such carelessness and open contempt for Congress.
And let’s be clear about why she acted the way she did. Pam Bondi had an audience of one. She was performing for Donald Trump. That’s it. It’s the same performance you see every day from MAGA influencers and politicians twisting themselves into knots, trying to invent excuses for why Donald Trump somehow isn’t responsible for what’s happening with the Epstein cover-up right now.
And let’s be clear about something else, too: The reason Pam Bondi feels so comfortable acting this way is because she believes she’s untouchable. She believes she’ll get a pardon from Donald Trump on the way out the door if it ever comes to that. It’s the same reason Kash Patel had no problem lying to Congress in December about whether there was evidence of human trafficking connected to Jeffrey Epstein. It’s the same reason so many people in Trump’s orbit feel completely at ease committing crimes and lying to the American people. They think there’s a get-out-of-jail-free card waiting for them.
But if you look closely, you can see the fractures spreading across the Republican Party. They’re there. People are breaking off left and right. Maybe they’re not ready to fully walk away from MAGA yet. Maybe they haven’t suddenly grown a spine or discovered a shred of character. But the cracks are visible.
The latest talking point from these hacks—one I ran straight into yesterday on Piers Morgan’s show—came by way of Clay Travis. A Fox News sports hack. An online influencer. I don’t even know what to call him at this point. Yesterday, he decided to cosplay as a legal expert, pretending he has the kind of expertise to explain the Epstein case to the public. I’m not convinced he could tell you the difference between the penal code and or a Trump bible.
So here’s their new line, and I’ve now seen it parroted all over by proudly stupid MAGA influencers. Almost a direct quote here: if the “so-called Epstein victims” really knew the names of their so-called perpetrators, they should just name them.
It’s the same energy I got last week when I went on a Daily Wire show—Bar Fight. “Oh, Mike, tell me what crimes you think were committed in the Epstein files. Tell me who you want prosecuted.” As if that’s some kind of trap. As if demanding accountability is radical.
They think these gotcha questions absolve their king and his minions—Pam Bondi included—of what is inching closer to one of the biggest, ugliest cover-ups in American history. And that’s saying something, because our government has done some shit.
What really drives me nuts is this idea that if they stand across from someone like me—a proud Democrat, yes, but more importantly an empathetic human being who still has a soul and isn’t a hack—they can intimidate me with, “Mike, what crimes do you want prosecuted?” Like I’m supposed to shrink into a wallflower.
Fuck that.
I get in their faces and I say: I want people prosecuted for abusing kids. I want people prosecuted for trafficking and recruiting those kids. I want people prosecuted for lying to the American people under oath. It’s not complicated. It’s not controversial. It’s not a hard answer.
When they ask, “Who do you want investigated, Mike?” I say: everyone. Anyone who abused kids. Anyone who trafficked kids. Any co-conspirator still unnamed in those Epstein files—based on what we’re hearing from members of Congress, Democrat and Republican alike. I want them prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I don’t care if they’re a Democrat or a Republican.
And I don’t care because, as much as I joke about being a hack sometimes, I’m not one. I’m a human being having a normal reaction to something horrific. I’m thinking like a parent of a six-year-old who wants to keep my kid safe!
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Asking people to name exactly who should be prosecuted in the Epstein files is a deflection. We don’t have access to the full scope of those files, and pretending we do shifts the burden away from the real issue: accountability.
What we do know is that Epstein had a vast network, and Trump’s name appears repeatedly in thousands of documents, alongside other political elites and government officials. Anyone in those files who committed crimes should be investigated, prosecuted, and face consequences — no matter their party or position.
We’re talking about taking the word of powerful and wealthy people over survivors, many of whom were children at the time. Trauma affects memory. Fear is real. Testifying is retraumatizing. Some victims may not know the identities of the people who abused them. That doesn’t invalidate what happened.
This is a moral issue. Defending or minimizing it isn’t about principle — it’s about protecting power. And that should concern anyone with a conscience.
Pam Bondi couldn’t even look at the victims yesterday. That’s the level of disrespect we’re dealing with.
And it’s maddening. These people have handed whatever soul they had over to Donald Trump. Everything is for the king. And I honestly don’t know if there’s a way back for them.
As a practicing Catholic, I believe in forgiveness. I want repentance. I want them to recognize the damage they’ve done—to this country, to our institutions, to people’s mental health, to the economy, to ICE, and especially to the victims who’ve been caught in the blast radius of this entire Epstein nightmare. People in Trump’s inner circle. People like Howard Lutnick. People who keep lying.
And yes, let me be clear: if there are Democrats in those files too, they should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. At bare minimum, anyone who maintained a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein after he became a registered sex offender in 2008 should have to answer for it. No exceptions. No team jerseys.
But these MAGA influencers, these MAGA politicians, the professional hacks like Pam Bond and Clay Travis—they’re hollow. That’s why Bondi feels emboldened enough to weaponize the personal information and search histories of members of Congress. That’s why she thinks screaming clever insults on Fox News for a viral clip will shield her from accountability.
It won’t.
Outside of Twitter and conservative media bubbles, this is an 80–20 issue. Most Americans understand what’s happening. Most Americans are angry. Maybe not all of that anger will translate into votes—but a lot of it will.
And I believe, come November, it’ll be enough for a reckoning.
Pamela raised the same right hand when she took an oath to become Attorney General & swore to Congress that she would be impartial & independent from the Executive. She was a despicable liar then, just as she is now. She spends her time on her hands & knees scrubbing up the President’s messes & doing his bidding. She has brought shame on the integrity & purpose of the DOJ. She needs to be impeached for lying to Congress & the American people & for violating her oath of office. She refuses to answer questions in good faith, spews off-topic insults & talking points & basically presents as a screaming banshee. Someone please make her go away.
The Trump regime is deporting 5 year old children. The Trump regime is deporting people who wrote a bad check 14 years ago. But Trump, the GOP and the MAGA minions are telling the American people that not one rich white man should be prosecuted for raping hundreds of women and children as young as 9. You can't claim to believe in family values or law and order if have no humanity.