Right-wing media figures are blasting Attorney General Pam Bondi’s bizarre and evasive appearance at a House Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday.

Greg Kelly, a host for the right-wing media outlet Newsmax, said, “I like her, but she’s in over her head…. I don’t think Pam is living up to that responsibility. Lots of theatrics on her part today before the House … She was not responsive, evasive. And I think she is not to be trusted, and I hope she leaves soon.”

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Fellow Newsmax host Carl Higbie said of Bondi, “Pam Bondi did a real disservice to Donald Trump and this nation, honestly…. Was this hearing entertaining? Oh yeah, it was definitely entertaining. Was it helpful? Not even a little bit…. The hearing was a complete disaster…. After today, I don’t know how her political career survives.”

Right-wing broadcaster Ben Shapiro said that Bondi failed to explain the Department of Justice’s handling of the Epstein files, and added, “So she was was asked about Epstein, and she promptly started doing a cable news spot about how no one should ever mention Epstein again, they should only talk about the stock market…. William Barr, who was AG under President Trump the first time, Bill Barr, was a very good AG. I do not think the same of Pam Bondi. I do not think she’s good at her job…. This was, not great here. Not great at all.”

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Even white supremacist Nick Fuentes said, “Pam Bondi needs to be impeached. You lied about the existence of the files. You lied about unindicted collaborators and accomplices.”

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Clay Parikh — a special government employee whose conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election led to a recent FBI raid in a Fulton County, Georgia election office — thinks that “gay pride” displays in churches are evidence of “the devil trying to brainwash people.”

Parikh reportedly refused to discuss when he became a special government employee or what his duties entail when asked by a journalist with Talking Points Memo (TPM). He did, however, say that a “pure evil” secret political group of “deep state” agents is placing the U.S. in grave danger.

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Parikh, who believes the U.S. hasn’t “had an honest election in decades,” has participated in events with “My Pillow” entrepreneur, election conspiracy theorist, and former crack addict Mike Lindell. Parikh appeared as an expert cybersecurity witness to support the claims of vote rigging alleged by anti-LGBTQ+ Republican Kari Lake — the Arizona Supreme Court tossed Lake’s claim. Parikh also alleged that local “cheating” occurred in the 2024 elections, but he didn’t mention any specific examples.

He then said he had no faith in the United States and that freedom in the country is an illusion. When asked if he had faith in the president, he said, “If you put your faith in people, you’re going to be hurt. The only person I put my faith in is my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, right? So I’m not going to comment about anybody else. All I can tell you is, I’m in this fight.” He then sounded as if he was crying, TPM reported.

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Parikh then claimed that the restaurant chain Cracker Barrell is no longer selling “real chicken,” adding, “[Their] food was going downhill before all their woke stuff.” Conservatives blasted the chain for allegedly going “woke” last August 2025 after a temporary logo rebrand removed an old white guy from its logo. He then claimed he always puts alcohol in his soda “to sanitize it.”

When asked if he thinks that the anti-American deep state trying to destroy the country was “demonic in nature,” he replied, “It’s got to be, you know, and if you’re asking me this to try to turn it around and make me out to be a wack job, that’s whatever.”

“There are a group of people now that, they’ve gone off and they believe this stuff,” Parikh said. “Controlling things and more power, that’s evil. That’s the devil’s work right there. And so, whether they’re actually bowing down, and drinking blood, and doing whatever Satanists will do, that’s irrelevant. When you do pure evil things that violate what God’s instructed us to do, you are evil, you are demonic.”

“Some of the churches are wrong that have gay pride stuff in it,” he added. “That’s not a church. That’s obviously the devil trying to brainwash people. That’s my personal beliefs.”

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