“There was no integrity in that room today, it seems like, when it came to Epstein and Maxwell,” Teresa Helm said after Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing.

Six survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse and two members of another accuser’s family said they felt “degraded” during Wednesday’s contentious House Judiciary Committee hearing, at which Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to face them and apologize.

Several Epstein survivors and relatives were on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers grilled Bondi for over five hours about several matters, including the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein case. She was specifically questioned about why released files were heavily redacted and why several survivors’ names were not.

“There was such a lack of empathy today. There was such a lack of, honestly, humanity today,” Dani Bensky said on NBC’s “Hallie Jackson NOW.”

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    Was it because she started screaming about how much the DOW is up? (much less than it was projected to be under competent leadership)

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      Small nitpick, only because I see it repeated a bunch right now, I am so sorry for being annoying like this please don’t hate me

      It’s the Dow, or Dow Jones, or Dow Jones Industrial Average, or DJI. But it’s not DOW, those initials mean other things.

      Again I am so sorry I hate that I even posted this I really do just mean to help and not be the ahctually person

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        Another nitpick I’m surprised I haven’t seen: she said The Dow was up to 50,000 DOLLARS. She even hedged for a bit because she doesn’t know what units we use to measure the Dow.

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          She could be right. They may have tried bribing whoever reports those numbers with $50,000 to provide more favorable numbers. When they found out that Dow Jones isn’t a person, they probably tried to play it off as a Four Seasons incident.

          Meanwhile, D. Jones is calling GDT to find out if this is a residual check.

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        Why aren’t you guys even talking about THAT?! At this hearing that’s totally about this other thing!???

        Also Blondi: did you guys even apologize to President TRUMP (she has a weird way of saying his name; she sounds like a cult member talking about their cult leader FFS) for investigating his crimes?

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          she sounds like a cult member talking about their cult leader

          There is a very good reason why she sounds like that…

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        TBH with employment down and costs of living soaring I couldn’t care why the DOW is up, the DOW has always gone up, I’m more interested in those Epstein questions she refused to answer in order to scream about the DOW.

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          everyone working for trump is just a muppet, under direct orders from trump along the lines of “don’t answer any questions, just talk about how great i am”

          so…DOW. that’s all anyone’s ever going to get

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          The stock market is not the economy.

          The market is more akin to a casino.