I understand what he’s doing,” Jon Stewart said of Trump’s decision to start ranting and raving about what he has deemed the Jeffrey Epstein “hoax.” Stewart shared his theory on a new episode of his Weekly Show podcast that Trump’s trying to cloud to legitimacy of the Epstein files because he knows he would likely be implicated by their release.

Stewart mocked the Trump administration for trying to diffuse a "bomb" officials planted with talk of Epstein's so-called "client list."