Overview

• Jessica Williams rejoined Jon Stewart as a guest correspondent on The Daily Show on July 28 after her Emmy nomination for Apple TV+’s Shrinking.
• She charged that President Trump is scapegoating figures like Martin Luther King Jr., Barack Obama, Oprah and Beyoncé to shift focus away from demands to release Jeffrey Epstein files.
• Williams joked that Trump might next accuse celebrities such as Michael Jordan or even the fictional Urkel to emphasize the tactic’s absurdity.
• The Trump administration has continued to withhold additional Epstein investigation records, with the Department of Justice insisting there is no secret ‘client list.’
• Late-night hosts have spent over a week riffing on the withheld documents, and Williams’s return has reignited satirical scrutiny of the administration’s diversion strategy.