Overview

• On July 28, Jessica Williams returned to The Daily Show to lampoon President Trump’s pattern of publicly attacking Black figures to shift attention away from unreleased Jeffrey Epstein documents.
• Williams pointed out Trump’s sequence of deflections—from releasing Martin Luther King Jr. files to accusing Barack Obama of treason and threatening prosecutions of Oprah Winfrey and Beyoncé.
• She quipped that the next absurd target could be the sitcom character Urkel, warning “we’re about a week away from him saying that Urkel did 9/11.”
• Special Assistant Harrison Fields fired back in an email to The Independent, calling Williams an “irrelevant D-list celebrity,” and Trump intensified Truth Social demands to prosecute Beyoncé, Oprah and Kamala Harris.
• Despite the escalating exchanges, the Department of Justice maintains there is no hidden Epstein 'client list,' and pressure for transparency on the files continues to build.