SBF has joined Pam Bondi on team Dow 50K
From his prison cell at FCI Lompoc, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) is running the same Donald Trump-cheerleading play that Pam Bondi ran right before Trump fired her. Hes joined Bondi on team “Dow 50K.” The convicted FTX fraudster‘s proxy-run X account posted on Wednesday that the S&P 500 had hit a record level of 7,365. The index, the ex-FTX CEO claimed, had rallied an impressive 22.8% since Trump’s second inauguration. At the corresponding time during Joe Bidens presidency, it was up just 7%. It is a near-perfect echo of the rhetorical move that turned Bondis glaze into a meme. At her February 2026 House Judiciary hearing on the Department of Justices handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, the then-US attorney general abruptly pivoted away from questions about the files. Instead of responding, she started reciting stock index prices instead, reminding lawmakers that the Dow Jones Industrial Average index was over 50,000, the S&P near 7,000, and that Americans 401(k) retirement accounts were “booming.” The clip of her desperate attempt to defend Trump went viral. Dow 50K became a meme Despite her attempts to defend Trump amid a Congressional inquiry into her own mismanagement, Trump fired her on April 2. SBF is serving 25 years for stealing roughly $8 billion from