Several Republican lawmakers announced Monday they are "on board" with impeaching Attorney General Pam Bondi, marking the first time in recent history the party has acknowledged impeachment as a legitimate governmental function rather than a partisan coup attempt orchestrated by deep state actors.
Representative Ro Khanna confirmed that Representative Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, would be leading the bipartisan effort to hold Bondi accountable for failing to release Jeffrey Epstein files by the congressionally mandated deadline. Sources report Massie experienced a sudden revelation that congressional oversight actually exists while reviewing the Constitution, a document he apparently read for the first time last week.
The development comes just four years after Republicans voted to acquit Trump following his second impeachment for inciting the January 6 attack on the Capitol, during which many called the proceedings illegitimate persecution. Party leadership spent much of 2021 through 2024 systematically purging from their ranks the ten Republicans who voted to impeach Trump, with eight losing primaries, retiring under pressure, or fleeing Congress entirely after being labeled traitors to democracy.
Representative Dan Newhouse, one of only two remaining members of the so-called "Impeachment 10," announced his retirement last week, citing a desire to pursue opportunities where voting his conscience wouldn't result in political annihilation. Representative David Valadao, the lone survivor, is expected to lose his reelection bid after California redistricting, thus completing the party's five-year mission to prove that impeachment is both unconstitutional and grounds for immediate excommunication.
Republican strategists explained the party's newfound enthusiasm for constitutional accountability stems from their discovery that impeachment can be used against people they don't like, a legal principle they claim has been hiding in plain sight within Article II this entire time.
When asked about the apparent contradiction between supporting Bondi's impeachment while having spent years calling Trump's impeachments "partisan theater" and "sham proceedings," one GOP congressman explained that the situations were completely different because Bondi failed to release documents about Epstein, whereas Trump merely attempted to overturn an election and incited an insurrection, which is basically just free speech when you think about it.
