“The Daily Show” spent a sizable portion of its Tuesday night episode analyzing the latest in the Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein birthday card scandal — or, as host Michael Kosta put it: “The longest episode of ‘To Catch a Predator’ ever.”
“Let’s get into it with our continuing coverage of the very normal and not shady handling of the Epstein files,” the comedian joked after the Wall Street Journal (and the House Oversight Committee) revealed a copy of the full 50th birthday message letter to Epstein, allegedly signed by Trump. The President’s team has denied that it’s his signature.
“They even asked the woman who compiled all of Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday cards, and luckily, she had 20 years’ of free time,” Kosta explained. “Well, that sure is lucky for Trump. He sent his deputy attorney general to privately talk to Ghislaine Maxwell while she’s in a federal prison system he controls and she doesn’t remember anything incriminating about him? Surprising. What a nice thing for her to say about the president without receiving anything in return. Right?”
At that, another news clip then highlighted how Maxwell was transferred subsequently transferred to a minimum security prison after the interview. Unrelated, of course.
“I don’t comment on something that’s a dead issue,” Trump said told NBC News on Tuesday. “I gave all comments to the staff. That’s a dead issue.”
