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President Donald Trump once again blasted comedian Jimmy Kimmel after the ABC talk show host joked that the president was "bracing for Hurricane Epstein" during his monologue Wednesday (November 19) night.
"Why does ABC Fake News keep Jimmy Kimmel, a man with NO TALENT and VERY POOR TELEVISION RATINGS, on the air? Why do the TV Syndicates put up with it? Also, totally biased coverage. Get the bum off the air!!!" Trump wrote on his Truth Social account.
Kimmel alleged that Trump would be a major figure named in the release of documents related to late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein during his monologue, claiming there was only a "12 percent chance" Trump would sign the legislation, as his show is typically taped at around 7:30 p.m. ET, prior to the president's announcement that he had signed the legislation Wednesday night.
“We are carefully following the path of Hurricane Epstein right now. It is a Category 5, it’s expected to make landfall sometime very soon,” Kimmel said
Trump's lengthy post announcing he'd signed the bill attempted to tie Epstein to the Democrats, days after publicly urging Republicans to vote in favor of the release of the full Justice Department files related to Epstein, changing his previous stance on the files being released. The president had called on Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate Epstein's ties to prominent Democratic officials and banks like JP Morgan days after his own name was mentioned in emails sent by the late convicted pedophile.
"We have released over 33,000 Epstein documents to the Hill, and we will continue to follow the law and to have maximum transparency. Also, we will always encourage all victims to come forward," Bondi said at a news conference alongside FBI Director Kash Patel, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and others on an unrelated issue via ABC News.
Several emails sent by Epstein were released by Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform last week, which included the late pedophile referring to Trump as the "dog that hasn't barked" and claiming he "spent hours at my house" to longtime confidant Ghislaine Maxwell.