Adam Schiff DESTROYS Pam Bondi in HEATED Hearing Over Tom Homan’s $50K Bribe Scandal

The Sword and Shield: Pam Bondi’s “Oversight” of the Justice Department

The October 7, 2025, oversight hearing with Attorney General Pam Bondi was a masterclass in the very weaponization she claimed to be ending. For five hours, the nation’s chief law enforcement officer acted less like a guardian of justice and more like a partisan brawler, responding to legitimate inquiries with “canned attacks” and a categorical refusal to provide answers on matters of grave public concern.

Senator Adam Schiff hit the nail on the head: the Department of Justice has been transformed into a “personal sword and shield” for the administration—a sword to strike at political enemies like James Comey and a shield to cover up the stench of corruption within its own ranks.

The $50,000 Brown Bag Scandal

The most explosive revelation of the hearing—and the one Bondi worked hardest to bury—involved Tom Homan, the administration’s “Border Czar.” Reports from major outlets, corroborated by internal DOJ summaries, allege that Homan was caught on hidden camera in September 2024 accepting $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents. In exchange, Homan reportedly promised to steer lucrative government contracts to their “businesses” once he returned to power.

Bondi’s response to this was a textbook display of “passing the buck.” She repeatedly claimed she wasn’t in office when the investigation was “resolved,” pointing to the word of FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. Yet, when asked if she would support the release of the audio and video tapes to the committee, she stonewalled.

“Will you support a request so that the committee… should be able to see that video or audio tape?” Schiff asked.

Bondi’s response: “Will you apologize to Donald Trump?”

This isn’t law enforcement; it’s a protection racket. If the evidence “found no credible evidence of any criminal wrongdoing,” then why hide the tape? The White House’s defense has shifted from a flat denial that the money was taken to a claim of “FBI entrapment,” while Homan himself essentially admitted to the incident on Fox News by stating he “did nothing illegal.”

The Architecture of a Cover-Up

Bondi’s refusal to answer wasn’t limited to Homan. Schiff detailed a staggering list of “receipts”—questions of national importance that Bondi treated with outright contempt:

The Qatari Gift: Bondi refused to say if she consulted career ethics lawyers before approving President Trump’s receipt of a $400 million jet from the Qatari government.

The Epstein Files: She declined to explain her role in reportedly ordering federal agents to flag or scrub Donald Trump’s name from newly gathered Jeffrey Epstein documents.

The Comey Indictment: She would not disclose if she discussed the political prosecution of James Comey with the President—a prosecution over a thousand former DOJ officials have called a “democracy-threatening abuse of power.”

The Purge of Career Officials: Bondi stonewalled on the firing of career prosecutors who worked on January 6th investigations, or those who refused to file charges in cases where evidence was clearly lacking.

A Department in Decay

The human cost of this politicization is already visible. Over 280 former career officials have left the DOJ, sounding the alarm that the “rule of law” is being replaced by the “rule of the President.” Michael Ben-Ary, a veteran counterterrorism prosecutor, went as far as to nail a letter to his door warning that the removal of experienced officials is undermining our national security to prioritize political vendettas.

The irony of Bondi’s “tough-on-crime” posturing is that it only applies to those outside the inner circle. Inside the Brentwood-style bubble of the Trump administration, $50,000 in a bag is “baseless,” and a $400 million foreign gift is “private.”

The American people were promised a Justice Department that would protect their safety. Instead, they have an Attorney General who uses her tenure to settle old scores from impeachment hearings and shield associates from the consequences of “brazen graft.” Bondi may claim she is ending the “weaponization of justice,” but her actions prove she has merely taken the weapon for herself.