Overview

• The Wall Street Journal revealed that Attorney General Pam Bondi privately informed President Trump in May that his name appeared in Jeffrey Epstein’s investigation files.
• A joint DOJ-FBI memo released earlier this month affirmed Epstein’s death by suicide and declined to unseal further documents.
• Stephen Colbert opened Wednesday’s Late Show with a gleeful monologue mocking Trump’s denial and highlighting the president’s multiple aliases listed in the files.
• President Trump dismissed the disclosures as a partisan “hoax” allegedly fabricated by Barack Obama and other Democratic figures.
• CBS cited financial pressures for canceling The Late Show after Colbert criticized Paramount Global’s $16 million settlement with Trump.