On this week’s episode of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart went after Donald Trump for his scattered response to the thousands of emails released last week in relation to the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Stewart opened his monologue by poking fun at one of the most viral messages among roughly 20,000 Epstein emails released on Nov. 12. The email is from Epstein’s brother Mark, telling him to ask former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon if “Putin has the photos of Trump blowing Bubba.”
“And I know what you’re probably thinking: ‘Jeffrey Epstein had a brother?’” Stewart joked. “He did! Apparently. And to the second thing that you might be thinking.” Stewart let a news clip finish his thought: “Mark Epstein released a statement clarifying that the name ‘Bubba’ was not a reference to former president Bill Clinton.”
The late-night pundit added, “Thank you for clearing that up. No further questions, your honor.”
Stewart then turned to Trump’s drastic pivot in support of releasing the Epstein files after months of fighting the movement to make them public. He played a soundbite from WJHL News examining Trump’s Truth Social post on Sunday Night, which read, “House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files because we have nothing to hide.”
“If he had nothing to hide, he could have declassified and released these files himself at any time,” Stewart said. “How do I know this? A legal expert named Donald ‘Jurisprudence’ Trump said so.”
Stewart then cut to a clip of Trump talking to Fox News in 2022: “If you’re the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying it’s declassified. Even by thinking about it.”
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“It’s very clear he does not want these things out there,” Stewart added. “Which is obvious, even from his nonsensical answer in the Oval Office today.”
In a clip from CNN, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, “We have nothing to do with Epstein. The Democrats do. All of his friends were Democrats. You look at Reid Hoffman. You look at Larry Summers, Bill Clinton.”
Stewart fired back, “We have tried to look at those people, but every time we do, your picture comes up,” before cutting to a photo of Trump and Epstein together.
Watch the entire monologue below.
From Variety US