Saturday Night Live kicked off this week’s cold open with the controversial verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial being celebrated by unhinged right-wing pundit and fervent Trump evangelist Jeanine Pirro (Cecily Strong), who was joined by Judge Bruce Schroeder (Mikey Day) on her show “Fox News’ Justice.”
Rittenhouse, 18-year-old was acquitted on all charges after using an illegal gun to kill two people in a different state during a Black Lives Matter protest for Jacob Blake, a Black man who was murdered by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
“Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges. That lovable scamp was put through a nightmare of a trial just for doing the bravest thing any American can do: protecting an empty used car lot in someone else’s town,” proclaimed Pirro.
Then, Pirro brought on Judge Schroeder, whose apparent bias during the trial raised eyebrows across the country.
“Now, if I may say judge-to-judge, what turned me on the most was how you ruled that courtroom with an iron fist. Tell us how you did it!” asked Pirro.
“Well, it was all standard procedure. That’s why I ordered that the prosecution not use the word ‘victims,’ they were ‘rioters’; and they weren’t ‘shot,’ they were ‘ga-doinked.’ But that did not give my client an unfair advantage in any way,” Schroeder responded.
“You said ‘my client.’ Did you mean ‘the defendant?’” asked Pirro.
Teh segment ended with Donald Trump rambling through the entire interview.
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