Jimmy Kimmel rips into Trump admin over 'deeply disturbing' scandal about 'spying' on Dems
Jimmy Kimmel has ripped into Donald Trump's administration after a picture of Pam Bondi's notes from the congressional hearing earlier this week appeared.
The Attorney General had notes from Democratic Party representative Pramila Jayapal's searches of the Epstein files. Though legally allowed to search through the files, a member of the Trump admin had taken notes on what the US representative from Washington's 7th congressional district had searched.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson would call this an oversight from the admin, though Kimmel is unconvinced that documenting the Democrats' search history is an accident.
Speaking during the opening monologue of his talk show, Kimmel said, "For those who are wondering when the abuse of power will end, the answer is never, probably. So a photographer got a shot of her [Bondi's] folder, she opened the folder, they got a shot, you can see a page that says 'Jayapal Pramila Search History'.
"That refers to Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, a Democrat, with whom Bondi exchanged one of the most contentious exchanges of the day. The photo appears to show a list of everything Jayapal searched for in the Epstein files. They tracked her search history in the private room at the Department of Justice, where people are legally permitted to look at the less redacted files.
"It seems that they tracked those Congresspeople without their knowledge, they gave out their search history to give Bondi an edge in the hearings and then they're so dumb they printed it out and put a title on the top. It's such a delicate balance between stupid and evil."
Kimmel went on to criticize Johnson for the "deeply disturbing" oversight. Johnson said, "I don't think it's appropriate for anyone to be tracking that so I will echo that to anybody involved in the DoJ, and I'm sure it's an oversight, that's my guess.
Kimmel replied, "That's a bad guess. An oversight? You mean someone forgot to not track and document everything elected members of Congress were privately looking up? That's a hell of an oversight."