Saturday Night Live opened its latest episode with a cold open spoofing Pam Bondi's recent congressional hearing, in which the attorney general clashed with senators through evasive answers and sharp personal jabs. This week's host, Amy Poehler, played the role of Bondi, while her longtime friend and fellow SNL alum Tina Fey made a surprise cameo as Secretary of Department of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem - hair extensions, Botox, and AR-15 included.
Saturday Night Live roasted Trump Attorney General Pam Bondi and President Donald Trump in a cold open satirizing Bondi's bonkers appearance at a Senate hearing this week and featured a big guest appearance reuniting old classmates. This week's edition of Saturday Night Live marked the second episode of the sketch comedy mainstay's 51st season. The host was SNL alum Amy Poehler, hosting for the first time since 2015 and her third time since leaving the cast.
But I don't put anything past them. You know, I think we saw today from the attorney general how low the representatives of the Department of Justice are willing to go.
You were asked whether you consulted with career ethics lawyers, as you promised you would do during your nomination hearing, when you approved the president receiving a $400 million gift from the Qataris. You refused to answer that question. You were asked whether Holman kept the $50,000 bribe money. You refused to answer that question. You were asked whether Holman paid taxes on the $50,000 bribe money. You refused to answer that.
In February, you made a public claim that the Epstein client list was, quote, sitting on my desk right now for review,' end of quote. You then produced already public information and no client list at a major media event hosted at the White House. Attorney General Bondi, why did you publicly claim to have the Epstein client list waiting for your review and produce nothing relevant to that claim?
In an earlier online outburst that read as much like a direct message to Bondi as a public post, Trump demanded she appoint Halligan his special assistant and a onetime beauty queen to replace Erik Siebert, a former police officer and experienced prosecutor and US attorney who resigned after finding no grounds for prosecuting the New York attorney general, Letitia James.
Bondi's statements and other official actions - including a highly choreographed perp walk that saw Mangione led up a Manhattan pier by armed officers, and the Trump administration's flouting of established death penalty procedures - "have violated Mr. Mangione's constitutional and statutory rights and have fatally prejudiced this death penalty case," his lawyers argued in a court filing. Mangione's defense team, led by former Manhattan prosecutor Karen Friedman Agnifilo,
Trump ally Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) who was a cabinet secretary in Trump's first term got a heavy receipt pulled on him when he complained, without evidence, that an unnamed news outlet called President Donald Trump a Nazi three thousand times! Trump Attorney General Pam Bondi has drawn criticism for threatening to go after people over what she described as hate speech including those cheering activist Charlie Kirk's assassination.
In recent months, the political world has been rocked by renewed interest in the case of the convicted sex trafficker. This came as a result of Trump's Department of Justice led by Attorney General Pam Bondi concluding the rumored list of Epstein clients did not actually exist. Bondi previously insisted the list was on her desk, leading some to speculate that the administration was trying to cover up the case.
"When I began as a prosecutor, I started in the domestic violence unit," she stressed. "You have my word that we will do everything in our power to fight for victims of domestic violence throughout this country, as I have done my entire career."
The employee, Elizabeth Baxter, was a paralegal at the department's environmental defense section, according to a memo to her published by the New York Post, which first reported Friday's dismissal. Based on your inappropriate conduct towards National Guard service members, your employment with the Department of Justice is hereby terminated, and you are removed from federal service effective immediately, Bondi wrote in the memo.
In March, Trump installed Matthew Giordano, an experienced prosecutor and campaign donor, as US Attorney for the District of New Jersey. Three weeks later, he shoved Giordano aside, mumbling that he was honoring him with an appointment as ambassador to Namibia. Instead Trump installed his personal lawyer Alina Habba, a loyalist with zero prosecutorial experience. Trump nominated Habba for a full term, but the Senate never took up her appointment - and indeed she appears never to have even bothered to fill out the paperwork.
Bondi's last appearance as a guest on Fox News was with Sean Hannity on June 30th, days before her DOJ and the FBI released a joint memo concluding that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself and did not keep a client list.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has directed a U.S. Federal prosecutor to present evidence to a grand jury concerning an alleged conspiracy to link Donald Trump to Russia.
I gave the president my view of how to handle it. Pretty much what I told you guys. Don't talk about it. Get Bondi, the Justice Department, in a methodical way to explain what's going on.
Dillon and Jones highlighted Bondi's statement about having thousands of hours of video, expressing skepticism about the claim that it contains no compromising material on powerful individuals.
"We've got a war on drugs, we've got a war on human trafficking, we've got cartels in this country and we've got foreign adversaries around this world as well and we're all going to work together as a team to fight to keep America safe again and I can tell you that's what we're all committed to."
