Jimmy Kimmel isn’t shopping for President Donald Trump’s sudden change of coronary heart on the discharge of information associated to late convicted intercourse offender and former pal Jeffrey Epstein.
“Something’s fishy,” he stated Tuesday evening.
After working for months to dam the discharge of the information, and after pressuring Republicans to dam a Home petition that might pressure the discharge, Trump shifted gears in latest days and urged Congress to go it.
The Home voted overwhelmingly to launch the information, 427–1, and the Senate authorised the invoice unanimously.
“The goal was to have the bill pass by such a large margin that Trump can’t put his little orange thumb on the scale and give it the old Cheeto veto,” Kimmel stated. “But make no mistake: This isn’t over. He’s not giving up easily. If anyone thinks he’s gonna release all the Epstein files, I’ve got a beautiful East Wing of the White House to sell you.”
Trump had the East Wing bulldozed to make approach for a large new ballroom presently beneath development.
Kimmel stated there are nonetheless methods Trump and his allies can sluggish and even block the discharge.
“Even after an almost unanimous vote by Congress, Trump’s cronies in the Department of Justice still have the power to withhold information to protect ongoing investigations, to protect innocent people, or for reasons of national security,” Kimmel identified.
Certainly, simply days earlier than Trump modified his thoughts on releasing the information, the Justice Division launched a brand new probe into Epstein ― one critics say might be used as a “smokescreen” to forestall the discharge of recent paperwork within the case.
“The DOJ can withhold entire documents, photos, and/or video,” Kimmel stated, then added sarcastically: “But they would never do anything like that, would they? They’re sworn to protect the Constitution of the United States.”
He stated the surest indication one thing is up is how out of the blue Trump modified his thoughts and stated he supported the discharge of the information.
“Trump rolled over faster than that dog Ghislaine Maxwell gets to play with in her country club prison,” he stated.
Maxwell is presently serving a 20-year sex-trafficking sentence for grooming underage ladies for Epstein.
Nonetheless, she was moved in August to a minimum-security jail camp in Texas after telling Justice Division officers that she “never witnessed” Trump “in any inappropriate setting in any way.”
There, she has entry to a variety of perks ― together with a service pet.
See extra in Kimmel’s Tuesday evening monologue:
