“This is the kind of woman who, if you lived next door to her, you’d move,” Kimmel said. “You wouldn’t even argue with her. You’d just relocate and never go back to the block.”
Kimmel noted that Bondi seemed especially performative, given reports that President Donald Trump had been complaining to his aides about her. She responded to questions by attacking lawmakers and praising Trump, whom she claimed was the “most transparent president” in U.S. history.
Kimmel’s audience jeered the attorney general’s claim.
“That’s right,” Kimmel mockingly agreed, then made a not-so-subtle reference to the redactions in the Epstein files, overseen by Bondi: “He’s so transparent, you had to black out his name like a thousand times.”
The DOJ was supposed to redact only the names of victims from the files, but lawmakers who’ve seen the uncensored version said key names ― including Trump’s ― were also blacked out. But Bondi wouldn’t address the redactions during her combative exchanges with lawmakers.
That inspired Kimmel to ask Bondi an important question.
“This Department of Justice is hiding the names of people who are not victims. Why are they doing that?” Kimmel asked. “If they have nothing to hide, why are they hiding names? That’s it. That’s the only question anybody needs to ask.”
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