Seth Meyers on Wednesday skewered President Donald Trump for attempting to distract the public from his ties to Jeffrey Epstein with a litany of diversions before Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) shut down the House to block a bipartisan effort to get some answers.
“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 committed “treason” during the 2016 election, but only pushed the claim after his ties to Epstein, a sex offender who died in jail while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges, reached a fever pitch.
The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Trump wrote Epstein a lewd birthday message in 2003, and reported Wednesday that Attorney General Pam Bondi informed Trump in May that his name features prominently in a “truckload” of documents related to Epstein.
Meyers mocked the moment by imitating Trump and his advisers.
