Giddy Jon Stewart gives 'chef's kiss' to backlash over MAGA's conclusion on Epstein files
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Comedian Jon Stewart says he's enjoying the chaos that has engulfed the Trump administration over its botched release of Jeffrey Epstein papers.
The TV star gave a 'chef's kiss' in reaction to conservatives including Tucker Carlson and Fox News star Jesse Watters slamming the White House in recent days.
Even ardent supporters of the president have broken ranks in the days since the Justice Department issued a shock memo, which closed the investigation into Epstein and said there is no long-suspected 'client list.'
That flies in the face of previous declarations by Attorney General Pam Bondi that she had a damning list and that she would be publishing it as soon as she could.
The memo also ruled that Epstein's mysterious death in 2019 was a suicide, an assertion that did little to convince MAGA supporters who are convinced the pedophile was murdered to silence him.
Amid mounting scrutiny on the memo this week, Stewart pointed to a moment where Trump snapped at a reporter in a cabinet meeting, where he told them: 'Are people still talking about this guy, this creep? That is unbelievable.'
Stewart responded on The Weekly Show on Thursday: 'The first time they brought up Epstein in a cabinet meeting and Trump immediately jumps in, ‘Really? You’re going to talk about that guy, that guy? The guy that my audience has been clamoring about for 10 years?''
He said the reporter simply asked 'a very reasonable question', and speculated that Trump never had any intention to make good on his campaign promises to reveal secrets about the notorious pedophile financier.
Stewart said the controversy was tarnishing the reputations of some of Trump's top lieutenants, who had previously promised bombshell revelations to his supporters before the apparent U-turn.
Naming Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, Stewart said he enjoyed watching them 'go from conspiracy theorist to reasoned expert.'
'It is just, mwah, chef's kiss,' he added.
Stewart singled out Bondi's brushing off of questions about a missing minute in the Justice Department's release of surveillance from the night Epstein died, which she blamed on a routine glitch that happened every day when cameras were switched.
'I'm sure that will take all the air out of this conspiracy,' Stewart said sarcastically.
He said observers should expect to see Trump supporters call for Bondi to be fired and to deflect blame away from 'their dear leader', continuing: 'It's not, 'fire the guy who's in all the pictures with Epstein.''
Referencing the Epstein files, Stewart recalled that Trump 'said there was phony stuff in there.'
'And we all know the definition of phony when it comes to Donald Trump. Anything that reflects poorly on Donald Trump is phony or fake,' he said.
'So, by the very fact that he used that word specifically tells you something, very much so.'
Stewart's remarks come as a number of leading conservative voices have broken ranks with the Trump administration to condemn its handling of the 'Epstein files.'
Fox News anchor Jesse Watters said on The Five this week that 'nobody believes' the White House's memo that controversially closed the investigation into Epstein's ties to power and his death.
'Like where did this guy go? Where did that whole case go? Where did all the files go? They just went nowhere? No one even believes that,' Watters said.
Watters said conservatives have now been left disappointed, and cited the U-turn as he warned viewers not to get their hopes up for a new investigation the Trump administration opened this week into ex-CIA Director John Brennan and ex-FBI Director James Comey.
The investigations are ostensibly a look into Trump's alleged ties to Russia in the 2016 election, however even diehard MAGA supporters said the announcement appeared to be an attempted distraction from the 'Epstein files' debacle.
'You saw what happened with Epstein. You know, you get your hopes up and then all of a sudden, poof, everything disappears, so the Justice Department and the FBI have a lot riding on these prosecutions,' Watters said.
And on his show earlier this week, Tucker Carlson also waded into the controversy as he said it was 'obvious' that Bondi was 'covering up crimes'.
Carlson said he is not convinced that the president was covering his own alleged ties to Epstein, and felt the reason is to protect the US and Israeli intelligence services.
'I don't think he's that guy, actually,' Carlson said of Trump. 'I don't think he likes creepy sex stuff.
'The only other explanation that I can think of... is that intel services are at the very center of this story, U.S. and Israeli, and they're being protected,' he said.
Epstein's brother Mark also slated Bondi's assertion that his brother's death in 2019 was a suicide, and said he 'laughed at how stupid' the Trump administration's handling of the scandal has been.
The notorious pedophile's brother told NewsNation's Chris Cuomo on Tuesday that he was not convinced by the White House's memo this week that said there is no evidence Epstein was murdered or kept a long-suspected 'client list.'
'Every time they say something or do something to try to quash the fact that he was most likely murdered, they just put their foot further down their mouths,' Mark Epstein said.
