3. That said, Bondi’s stooping to ad hominem insults is inexcusable. “You washed-up loser lawyer! You’re not even a lawyer,” Bondi said to Rep. Raskin, who is indeed disgusting, but that is not relevant to the hearing. She called anti-Trump Republican Thomas Massie “a failed politician,” and insulted Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) by saying, “You’re about as good of a lawyer today as you were when you tried to impeach President Trump in 2016.” 

4. Again, the Democrats did not exactly cover themselves with glory either. Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) snarked that “Our witness who somehow is a lawyer but does not understand how [testifying] works.” To be fair, that might be because the Democrats didn’t show any understanding of what their role in a productive hearing should be either. Ted Lieu of California showed a photo of Trump and Epstein at a party well before he was charged with any crime, implying that the photo was damning evidence. Bondi responded, “There is no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime,” “I’m going to put up another document from a witness who called the FBI national threat operation center because I believe you just lied under oath,” Lieu snapped back, displaying a document that summarized unverified allegations about Trump from a limo driver. There is, in fact, no evidence in the Epstein files that Trump committed a crime.

5. How desperate and silly were the Democrats? This desperate and silly: Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) waved a Bible and the “Harry Potter” books, blathering “Trump’s name appears more times in the Epstein files than God’s name appears in the book about God! By the way, this is the Trump Bible. Move over, King James,” Moskowitz said. “Trump’s name also appears more times in the Epstein file than Harry Potter’s name appears in the seven books about Harry Potter!” Wow: the Harry Potter standard of incriminating mentions!

6. Bondi’s repeated exultations of President Trump—she called him the greatest POTUS in history at one point, just a day before Abe Lincoln’s birthday—made her sound like a toady, and Trump’s Cabinet appear to be stuffed with yes-persons. Is anyone impressed by that crap in a positive way?

7. Finally, in the yuck, pooie, ick, yecchh, “Have you no decency?” category, the Democrats used Epstein’s victims as props, as if they hadn’t been abused enough. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) asked Epstein survivors in the audience to stand up and demanded Bondi apologize to them.

In sum, the spectacle was a gang of unprofessional partisan thugs spitting insults and unfounded accusations at an unprofessional, unethical lawyer who lowered the status of the Justice Department every time she opened her mouth.

Compared to them, the elected officials and Cabinet members Li’l Abner and Marryin’ Sam were singing about in the early Sixties seem like demigods.