Overview
- Colbert focused on emails in which Jeffrey Epstein wrote to journalist Michael Wolff in 2019, “Of course Trump knew about the girls.”
- He highlighted a 2015 exchange where Wolff told Epstein that CNN planned to ask Trump about their relationship and Epstein offered to help “craft an answer.”
- Wolff’s messages suggested Epstein’s help could create a “debt” if Trump won the White House, according to the released documents.
- Colbert mocked Epstein’s offer as “some kind of perverted Clippy” and labeled the dynamic “blackmail” during his monologue.
- Trump downplayed the document release on Truth Social, calling it a Democratic effort to deflect attention and urging Republicans to focus elsewhere.