'What?' MSNBC host stunned by 'loony tunes' edict from Pam Bondi to DOJ employees
A former Department of Justice lawyer who was unceremoniously fired by the Donald Trump administration absolutely stunned one of the hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend" when she revealed the contents of a memo she had received from Attorney General Pam Bondi before she was ousted.
According to Liz Oyer, who advised on pardons at the DOJ, Bondi buried employees with a flood of memos that began with one explaining that their mission going forward was to work for Trump.
They then proceeded to grow more detailed.
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"If I could just share a quick anecdote," she began. "You know, when I was at the department before I was fired, we were getting bombarded daily with these orders from the attorney general."
"Pam Bondi signing memos to the workforce that are giving us our marching orders, telling us you are all the president's lawyers, carry out his his mission," she elaborated. "And it got down so far into the minutiae that we got a memo to the 115,000 employees of the department saying the Department of Justice is abolishing paper straws because the president doesn't like paper straws so it is our obligation as attorneys in the Department of Justice to eradicate the scourge of of paper straws and replace them with plastic."
She then added, "That is loony tunes."
"Liz, there are real things happening in this country," co-host Eugene Daniels interjected. "Serious things that people are dealing with, doesn't matter what side of the spectrum you're on politically. And so, I mean, I'm gobsmacked that the people who are, who spend their lives thinking about the rule of law, defending and protecting the rule of law, the Constitution are being asked to do things just because, you know, Donald Trump doesn't want to do them."
Waving his hands, he added, "I guess i probably shouldn't be as shocked as I am because of where we are politically, but ... what?"
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