Recommendations of the Editorial team
Fresh off his commentary on Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address, Jimmy Kimmel took aim at the missing Epstein files allegedly involving the president.
Last night, the late-night host focused on the revelation that the Justice Department withheld 53 pages of FBI material that appeared to address allegations against Trump. NPR reported that the pages include interviews and conversation notes with a woman who accuses Trump of sexually abusing her several decades ago – when she was a minor.
“I know, I’m just as shocked as you are,” Kimmel noted. “I thought he had already gotten rid of NPR.”
Kimmel’s swipe is spot on
He continued: “The woman said she was 13 when she met Trump. The FBI interviewed her four times in 2019. The details of those interviews are – for reasons no one has yet explained – unavailable.”
Kimmel said Democrats on the House Oversight Committee had viewed the documents and confirmed their existence. “Why can they just hide this?” he asked. “The files should be released. What a bunch of hypocrites. If these interviews were on Hunter Biden’s laptop, we would know every single word.”
He added that the public has a right to know whether Trump was involved in Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes. “The reason we don’t know is because the people who work for the president have redacted his name and made interviews disappear multiple times,” Kimmel said. “It seems to me that the best thing for President Trump – who has certainly done nothing wrong – would be to order that his name be cleared and all the Trump-Epstein files released so he can prove how incredibly innocent he is.”
Colbert seconds Kimmel
Stephen Colbert also took a look at the missing files on “The Late Show.” “The missing files should be the biggest story in the world,” the host said. And further: “It absolutely fits the core brand of the DOJ – especially this DOJ – to protect Trump.”
