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SETH MEYERS ON EPSTEIN FILES: ‘IT’S OBVIOUS WHY TRUMP FOUGHT SO
HARD TO STOP THIS BILL FROM PASSING’  
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Guardian staff
November 20, 2025
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_ Late-night hosts react to the congressional vote that
overwhelmingly approved a bill forcing the justice department to
release the Epstein files _

Seth Meyers: ‘He says he’ll sign the bill that forces him to
release the files he could’ve released on his own but wouldn’t.’
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Late-night hosts reacted to the congressional vote sending the bill to
release all files
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pedophile Jeffrey Epstein
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his former friend Donald Trump
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SETH MEYERS

It was a tough Tuesday for Trump, who lost his months-long battle to
stop the release of the Epstein files on Tuesday after Congress passed
a bill forcing the justice department publish them. “So now Trump is
doing a 180,” said Seth Meyers
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Wednesday’s Late Night.

 
“He says he’ll sign the bill that forces him to release the files
he could’ve released on his own but wouldn’t, thus requiring a
bill to force him to do the thing he didn’t want to do that he’ll
now be forced to do because of the bill he was against that he will
now sign.”

“It’s obvious why Trump fought so hard to stop this bill from
passing,” Meyers later added. “He called Republicans who supported
it stupid, called the files a hoax made up by Democrats, his team held
an emergency meeting in the White House situation room to sway
Republicans to vote against it, and he called Marjorie Taylor Greene a
traitor.”

Greene, a far-right Republican and former ally of the president, got
the last word on Tuesday. Speaking outside Congress, she said: “I
was called a traitor by a man that I fought five, no actually six
years for … Let me tell you what a traitor is. A traitor is an
American who serves foreign countries and themselves.”

“In fairness, she didn’t say Trump’s name. She could’ve been
talking about anybody,” said Meyers. “Maybe she was referring to a
different president who does deals with foreign governments and has a
secret Chinese bank account and got a crown from South Korea and a
plane from Qatar and a gold bar from Switzerland.”

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White House, in a chummy photo op where Trump dismissed questions
about MBS’s involvement in the murder of dissident journalist Jamal
Khashoggi.

“Trump’s whole vibe in this meeting is a reminder not to trust him
when he tells you he cut ties with Epstein after learning the truth
about him. That’s _Mohammed bin Salman,”_ Meyers added, mocking
the president – “you call him MBS, I call him Bone Saw!”

JIMMY KIMMEL

 
“We are now one step closer to answering the question: what did the
president know and how old were these women when he knew it?” said
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on Wednesday, after Congress voted overwhelmingly, 427-1, to authorize
the release of the Epstein files.

“It was such a landslide that Trump might actually be able to rebury
the Epstein files under it,” Kimmel quipped.

“Usually when Trump gets a bill, he declares bankruptcy and
doesn’t pay it,” he continued. “But this one, he’s going to
have to sign it. Or at least he says he’s going to sign it, which
means there’s about maybe a 12% chance he will.”

“Trump hasn’t been this nervous about signing something since Don
Jr’s birth certificate,” he joked. Hours after Kimmel’s taping,
Trump signed the bill
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into law.

Kimmel also mocked the House speaker, Mike Johnson, who fled the scene
while telling reporters he was “deeply disappointed” in the vote
and had “concerns” about the bill without redactions to supposedly
“protect the innocent”.

“They are so scared of Trump,” Kimmel mused. “What is going on?
Is he beating them? I don’t get it. They just blindly defend him.
They don’t know what’s in those files! They’re taking his word
for it. They’re taking the word of someone who paid a porn star
$130,000 and claims he didn’t do anything with her.”

Even if Trump does sign the bill, it’s still unclear whether the
justice department will actually release all the files, or have some
files tied up in investigations – “specifically, investigations
Trump orders to keep them tied up in investigations,” Kimmel noted.
“And that is where things will get interesting. Will we have the
original documents? Or is Trump going to pull a Taylor Swift and give
us The Epstein Files (Donnie’s Version)? We might not ever know.”

STEPHEN COLBERT

 

And on The Late Show, Stephen Colbert
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celebrated the congressional vote, which “then left the bill on
Trump’s desk like a flaming bag of poop. Very hard to put gold leaf
on that.”
“What’s he going to do?” he wondered. “Now remember, Trump
already tried to do everything possible to keep this from ever
happening.” As president, Colbert reminded, Trump could have
released the files at any moment; he did not, and never explained why.
“And when the discharge petition to release the files started, he
sent his minions to warn all the Republicans that voting to release
the files would be seen as a ‘hostile act’,” even dragging
far-right congresswoman Lauren Boebert into the situation room to
pressure her to drop her support for the measure.

“And when all of that failed, and it looked like he was going to
lose, Trump suddenly flipped, and said that everybody should for
it,” he explained. “And they did. Hence, the poop flambé.”

One question remained for Colbert, who taped before Trump signed the
bill: “Is he going to sign it? Is he going to not sign it and change
his name to Signor Ramon and flee to Acapulco?”

The new law requires the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, to make all
unclassified documents related to Epstein and his associate Ghislaine
Maxwell publicly available within 30 days, or before 19 December –
“Just in time for my pervert advent calendar,” Colbert joked.
“What do we got today? Oh, this chocolate looks like Jared from
Subway.”

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