“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.”
Yes but not because she has psychopathic tendencies. We cannot allow ourselves to villainize people based off their birth conditions. There are a good chunk of people who due to no fault of their own were born with these tendencies, and a lot of them try very very hard to live a good and kind life, even without emotional connection.
If we start demonizing people who struggle connecting to emotions, either fully or partly, we will condemn many autistic and other neurodivergent people who happen to also struggle with expressing emotions, perhaps not as greatly as those with psychopathic behaviors.
On the front of empathy, yeah it’s understandably scary to think about people without it. But again, we cannot decide that they are doomed to be cruel and malicious people without allowing them to learn and forge their own paths.
All this so say, Bondi is absolutely a despicable pile of garbage because of her actions and the role she has played in this regime. And I am absolutely never going to defend anyone even closely related to this administration. But, we must be careful not to simply decide someone’s fate because of who society says they are, otherwise we form self fulfilling prophecies.
Thank you. Here’s a good article on Bondi, apparently she once wanted to be a pediatrician, loved kids(!). Then she got pressured into becoming an attorney by her dad. She didn’t want to be a prosecutor but got pressured into that (lady isn’t good at forging her own path I guess). Got good reviews although they said she was easily bowled over by colleagues. Then Trump molds her into the AG position, where she had trouble getting into the nasty spirit.
This isn’t a sociopath, this is a sad pushover of a person with no backbone who got used until she become a perpetrator. One wonders about her childhood and what abuse she suffered, or why she’s got no self esteem at all.
That said eventually your actions do dictate the kind of person you are - no matter why she is this way, she’s a pile of garbage now, yes. Pedophile protector, woman hater, nasty wretch of a human.