{"id":2159899,"date":"2025-11-16T11:15:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T11:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2159899"},"modified":"2025-11-16T11:15:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T11:15:50","slug":"saturday-night-live-holds-press-briefing-where-trump-declares-he-barely-knew-epstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/saturday-night-live-holds-press-briefing-where-trump-declares-he-barely-knew-epstein\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Saturday Night Live\u2019 Holds Press Briefing Where Trump Declares He \u201cBarely Knew\u201d Epstein"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Saturday Night Live<\/a>\u2018s cold open kicked off with reporters hounding a faux Karoline Leavitt<\/a> and President Donald Trump<\/a> about the Epstein files.<\/p>\n

Ashley Padilla<\/a> portrayed Leavitt at the White House press briefing while James Austin Johnson<\/a> returned to his usual post as Trump, where the two took questions from journalists surrounding the topic, specifically in reference to new emails that were released this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cOkay, well I think we definitely need to start with the 20,000 Epstein<\/a> emails,\u201d Chloe Fineman<\/a> said as celebrity.land<\/a>\u2019s Kaitlan Collins<\/a>. \u201cWhy does President Trump<\/a>\u2019s name appear in so many of them?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know you suck, right?\u201d Padilla<\/a>\u2019s Leavitt said. \u201cLook, the only thing these emails prove is that President Trump did nothing wrong. If anything, his crime was loving too much.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson\u2019s Trump later hit the stage, noting, \u201cI am hiding almost nothing, just enough to make it extremely suspicious. But…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday Night Live\u2018s cold open kicked off with reporters hounding a faux Karoline Leavitt and President Donald Trump about the Epstein files. Ashley Padilla portrayed Leavitt at the White House press briefing while James Austin Johnson returned to his usual post as Trump, where the two took questions from journalists surrounding the topic, specifically in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2159900,"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":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2159899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\u2018Saturday-Night-Live-Holds-Press-Briefing-Where-Trump-Declares-He.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159899","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=2159899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2159901,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159899\/revisions\/2159901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2159900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2159899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2159899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2159899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}