{"id":1946468,"date":"2025-08-07T12:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1946468"},"modified":"2025-08-07T12:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:42:09","slug":"stephen-colbert-calls-bs-on-trumps-latest-epstein-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/stephen-colbert-calls-bs-on-trumps-latest-epstein-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert Calls BS On Trump&#8217;s Latest Epstein Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cObviously, every part of the story is just as shady as a cave,\u201d Colbert said, noting that after the interview, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/ghislaine-maxwell-prison-transfer_n_688cf201e4b09319f81618d3\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Maxwell was suddenly moved\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6894274ce4b00cfa127318fe\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"688cf201e4b09319f81618d3\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"buzz\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"7\">Maxwell was suddenly moved<\/a> to a minimum-security facility with fewer restrictions. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Now, Colbert said, there are reports that she told the Justice Department she never saw Trump do anything concerning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWell, then he\u2019s in the clear,\u201d Colbert said sarcastically. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He offered a damning summary of what an endorsement from Maxwell would look like to the public. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI know we all had our suspicions, but the convicted sex trafficker of underage girls didn\u2019t see anything that concerned her,\u201d Colbert said. \u201cNo red flags for Ghislaine during her decade-long career of underage sex trafficking. She said right here in the transcript: \u2018What was Donald Trump doing with Jeffrey Epstein? Nothing that concerned me, Ghislaine Maxwell, sex trafficker.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>See more in his Wednesday night monologue: <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cObviously, every part of the story is just as shady as a cave,\u201d Colbert said, noting that after the interview, Maxwell was suddenly moved to a minimum-security facility with fewer restrictions. Now, Colbert said, there are reports that she told the Justice Department she never saw Trump do anything concerning. \u201cWell, then he\u2019s in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1946469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[22389,325765,22942,22653,33798],"class_list":["post-1946468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-donald-trump","tag-ghislaine-maxwell","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-stephen-colbert","tag-the-late-show"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Stephen-Colbert-Calls-BS-On-Trumps-Latest-Epstein-Defense.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1946469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}