Jon Stewart Flags The Telling Trump Comment That Led To DOJ’s Epstein Findings | EUROtoday

“Daily Show” host Jon Stewart advised that President Donald Trump’s preliminary hesitancy towards releasing the Jeffrey Epstein recordsdata was a telling signal of his FBI and Justice Department’s eventual findings on the disgraced financier, a memo that contradicts previous feedback from these in his administration.

Stewart, in a latest episode of his “Weekly Show” podcast, referred to Trump’s cautious response in June 2024 when he was requested if he’d “declassify” such recordsdata.

“Yeah, yeah, I would. I guess I would. I think that less so, because you don’t know — you don’t want to affect people’s lives if it’s phony stuff in there, because it’s a lot of phony stuff with that whole world,” Trump advised Fox News.

Stewart swiftly highlighted the president’s use of the phrase “phony.”

“We all know the definition of phony when it comes to Donald Trump, anything that reflects poorly on Donald Trump is phony or fake,” he declared.

“So by the very fact that he used that word, specifically, tells you something.”

The memo — which indicated no proof Epstein was murdered or had a so-called “client list” — contradicted feedback from Attorney General Pam Bondi, who claimed in February that Epstein’s “client list” was sitting on her desk for evaluation.

The findings additionally problem remarks from Trump’s high FBI officers, ones they’ve since backtracked from. The memo’s launch has sparked outrage from MAGA world, together with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

Prior to the memo’s launch, paperwork linked to Epstein and his demise have included names of these with whom he related, however these associations had been largely publicly identified.

Years earlier than taking the Oval Office, Trump partied with Epstein earlier than the financier’s downfall, and the president’s title has appeared in unsealed paperwork associated to the Epstein case, though he’s by no means been accused of wrongdoing linked to Epstein’s crimes.

Stewart — who joked that it’ll end up that the Epstein recordsdata had been written in “lemon juice” and should be held as much as a light-weight — argued that the deal with conspiracies sparked Trump’s rise to energy and “drew his movement together.”

He added that such theories had been rather more of a “glue” to the MAGA motion than patriotism earlier than pointing to claims that the administration would “clean” Epstein’s case up upon coming into the federal authorities.

“It is so fucking bananas to watch them now try and diffuse this bomb that they planted,” Stewart stated.