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“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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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 38 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Never mind the child rape, have you seen the economy!

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

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?

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 points 13 hours ago

That is literally unironically what she said, yes.

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 17 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] triptrapper@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] datavoid@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 hours ago

It's the DOW if you yell it though?

[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

is dow up because tech is shitting the bed? or is GOP just rewriting reality again?

[–] Triton420@mander.xyz 11 points 23 hours ago

It’s up because the value of the dollar is falling

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

She literally said he's the greatest President in American history.

[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 hours ago

yea, keep gargling them shriveled up little dictator tots

fucking traitor cunt