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Orgo-Life the new way to the future Advertising by AdpathwayJimmy Kimmel isn’t buying President Donald Trump’s sudden change of heart on the release of files related to late convicted sex offender and former pal Jeffrey Epstein.
“Something’s fishy,” he said Tuesday night.
After working for months to block the release of the files, and after pressuring Republicans to block a House petition that would force the release, Trump shifted gears in recent days and urged Congress to pass it.
The House voted overwhelmingly to release the files, 427–1, and the Senate approved the bill unanimously.
“The goal was to have the bill pass by such a large margin that Trump can’t put his little orange thumb on the scale and give it the old Cheeto veto,” Kimmel said. “But make no mistake: This isn’t over. He’s not giving up easily. If anyone thinks he’s gonna release all the Epstein files, I’ve got a beautiful East Wing of the White House to sell you.”
Trump had the East Wing bulldozed to make way for a massive new ballroom currently under construction.
Kimmel said there are still ways Trump and his allies can slow or even block the release.
“Even after an almost unanimous vote by Congress, Trump’s cronies in the Department of Justice still have the power to withhold information to protect ongoing investigations, to protect innocent people, or for reasons of national security,” Kimmel pointed out.
Indeed, just days before Trump changed his mind on releasing the files, the Justice Department launched a new probe into Epstein ― one critics say could be used as a “smokescreen” to prevent the release of new documents in the case.
“The DOJ can withhold entire documents, photos, and/or video,” Kimmel said, then added sarcastically: “But they would never do anything like that, would they? They’re sworn to protect the Constitution of the United States.”
He said the surest indication something is up is how suddenly Trump changed his mind and said he supported the release of the files.
“Trump rolled over faster than that dog Ghislaine Maxwell gets to play with in her country club prison,” he said.
Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year sex-trafficking sentence for grooming underage girls for Epstein.
However, she was moved in August to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas after telling Justice Department officials that she “never witnessed” Trump “in any inappropriate setting in any way.”
There, she has access to a wide range of perks ― including a service puppy.
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