By Bob Gaydos

Epstein survivors stand as Attorney General Pam Bondi refuses to acknowledge them.

  If a picture is truly worth a thousand words, then a recent photo taken of Pam Bondi is priceless. The photo, which accompanies this column, encapsulates in one moment the very essence of the woman. Pure evil.

  Bondi’s hysterical, theatrical performance before a committee of Congress seeking full release of the FBI’s files on Jeffrey Epstein has been thoroughly covered by all media sources and her refusal to answer questions in favor of insulting members of Congress well-documented. It was likely the worst appearance ever by any United States Attorney General before a congressional committee. It should have been an embarrassment for her and her boss, Donald Trump.

  But I doubt that it was. The photo sealed the deal. Near the end of the three-hour ordeal of Bondi defending the Justice Department handling of the files by scowling, smirking and shrieking at committee members — she called Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) a “washed-up loser lawyer” and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) a “failed politician” — Rep. Pramila Jayapal ( D-Wash.) asked Bondi to turn around and personally apologize to the survivors who attended the meeting for the manner in which her department has handled the files.

    Bondi refused. She turned her head away from the survivors and said, “I am not going to get in the gutter for her theatrics.“

  When Jayapal asked the survivors to stand and raise their hands if they had not yet been granted a meeting with the Justice Department to share their stories, all nine survivors in the room stood and raised their hands, as did two family members of the late Virginia Giuffre, who committed suicide.

    There’s your photo. The survivors standing and staring at Bondi as she sits, clutching her playbook, looking the other way with her best privileged school girl face. Mission accomplished. She was unable to display even the slightest modicum of compassion, to face them as a woman, if not the attorney general, and express sadness for the pain and suffering they have endured.

    Nothing.

    A portrait of evil.