Playing the Holocaust Card

US Rep. Becca Balint questioning AG Pam Bondi at the Epstein hearing (TOI)

The world is on fire, and we are still talking about Jeffrey Epstein. A nation whose sworn allegiance is to a militant version of Islam that seeks to impose Sharia law over all the nations of the world. A nation that was on the verge of becoming a nuclear power - and still determined to become one. A nation that had exported terror across the region to Islamist proxies surrounding Israel whose aim its destruction and the annihilation of the nearly seven million Jews that inhabit it.

The US military is currently poised to attack her if negotiations don’t work out. And yet certain politicians, pursuing their own agenda, want to know who Epstein had dinner with on a particular evening.

Their objective appears to be casting the president as some sort of co-conspirator sex trafficker with Epstein. They are convinced he was and will not give up until they find something. They don’t seem to care who gets hurt in the process. If a record shows that someone once had a conversation with Epstein, that ‘someone’ may as well hide under a rock for the rest of his life. He will be tainted forever, even if he did nothing wrong. How many more people will become collateral damage in the pursuit of presidential ‘dirt’?

This has nothing to do with the compassion we must all feel for all of Epstei many victims. They deserve justice. The question is: what does justice look like? I’m not sure that the objective of finding ‘dirt’ on the president is the kind of justice they are seeking, righteous indignation from those members of Congress notwithstanding.

That brings me to a shouting match between Vermont Representative Becca Balint and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on this subject a few days ago.

Representative Balint, a progressive Democrat, did her ‘due diligence’ in seeking dirt on the president by asking the attorney general whether the president had been aware of Howard Lutnick’s ties to Epstein when he was appointed commerce secretary. 

Did Epstein’s victims really believe justice would be served for them if Bondi answered that question? I doubt that the president’s knowledge of such matters had any impact on the justice they seek. Except perhaps for those equally antagonistic toward the president for political reasons.

Instead of answering what she viewed as a loaded question, Bondi changed the subject and accused Balint of being soft on antisemitism, saying…

“With this antisemitic culture right now, she voted against a resolution condemning ‘from the river to the sea,’” apparently referring to Balint’s April 2024 vote against a House resolution condemning the common pro-Palestinian slogan.

At that point, Balint played the ‘Holocaust card’ and angrily responded…

“Oh, do you want to go there, Attorney General? Do you want to go there? Are you serious? Talking about antisemitism to a woman who lost her grandfather in the Holocaust? Really? Really?”

Balint then stormed out of the room.

Nice theatrics. But it doesn’t fly with me.

My grandparents were killed in the Holocaust, too...

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