Seth Meyers on Wednesday skewered President Donald Trump for trying to distract the general public from his ties to Jeffrey Epstein with a litany of diversions earlier than Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) shut down the Home to dam a bipartisan effort to get some solutions.
“A bipartisan group of lawmakers pushed for a vote to release the Epstein files, so Donald Trump and GOP leaders responded in a very normal way,” joked Meyers. “They shut down Congress and said [former President] Barack Obama should be arrested.”
Trump alleged Tuesday that Obama dedicated “treason” through the 2016 election, however solely pushed the declare after his ties to Epstein, a intercourse offender who died in jail whereas awaiting trial on federal intercourse trafficking prices, reached a fever pitch.
The Wall Avenue Journal reported Friday that Trump wrote Epstein a lewd birthday message in 2003, and reported Wednesday that Legal professional Normal Pam Bondi knowledgeable Trump in Could that his identify options prominently in a “truckload” of paperwork associated to Epstein.
Meyers mocked the second by imitating Trump and his advisers.
“You know the hardest part of that meeting was everyone having to pretend to be surprised,” Meyers mentioned. “‘Mr. President, we have some shocking news. Your name is in the Epstein files.’ ‘I mean, I can’t believe ― I was only friends with him for, what, 15 years?’”
Epstein’s loss of life and ties to highly effective figures fueled theories of an expansive blackmail operation. Trump officers beforehand teased transparency on the matter and vowed to launch a rumored “client list,” solely to reverse course and provide numerous distractions.
Trump even promised Tuesday at a GOP dinner: “We’re gonna get the drug prices down … Not 50% or 60%. No, we’re gonna get them down 1,000%, 600%, 500%, 1,500%. Numbers that are not even thought to be achievable.”
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“But the thing is, they’re not thought to be achievable because they make no sense,” Meyers mentioned. “What do you mean, you’re going to decrease drug prices by 1000%? Are you going to start paying people to take pharmaceuticals?”
Meyers famous that Trump referred to as his personal base “stupid” final week for demanding readability on the Epstein case. White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt instructed reporters Monday that the president does nonetheless look after the MAGA motion as a result of “it’s his baby that he made.”
Meyers’ “Late Night” monologue seized on the evident dissonance.
“MAGA cynically spun up the Epstein conspiracy theories for years because they thought it would hurt their political enemies,” Meyers mentioned. “And now it’s backfiring and hurting Trump. The government is paralyzed by a crisis entirely of its own making.”
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