{"id":2168772,"date":"2025-11-20T17:21:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2168772"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:21:15","slug":"stephen-colbert-says-hes-thankful-about-epstein-news-celebrity-news-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/stephen-colbert-says-hes-thankful-about-epstein-news-celebrity-news-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert says he&#8217;s &#8216;thankful&#8217; about Epstein news &#8211; Celebrity News &#8211; Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Stephen Colbert has sent a clear message to Donald Trump on the Epstein files, \u201cyour move, Don.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-mce-linkchecker-status=\"valid\">During the Thursday, November 20 episode of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert\">The Late Show<\/a>, the 61-year-old host\u2019s monologue shed light on the House of Representatives\u2019 427-1 vote to pass an act that moves to release <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/news\/us-news\/141966\/jeffrey-epstein-grand-jury-documents-unsealed-palm-beach-florida\">the files from the registered sex offender\u2019s high-profile court case<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He started, \u201cWe\u2019re just over a week away from Thanksgiving but, ladies and gentleman, I am already thankful because last night, around 5:30, the U.S. House and Senate voted overwhelmingly to make the justice department release the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Jeffrey Epstein\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/jeffrey-epstein\">Epstein<\/a> files.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs per the constitution, Congress then left the bill on Trump\u2019s desk like a flaming bag of poop,\u201d he joked. \u201cVery hard to put a gold leaf on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Colbert went on to contemplate what the president\u2019s next move would be, especially considering he\u2019s already \u201ctried to do everything possible to keep this from ever happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWhen all that failed and it looked like he was going to lose, Trump suddenly flipped and said everybody should vote for it and they did. Hence, the poop flamb\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>He questioned, \u201cIs he going to sign it? Is he going to not sign it or is he going to change his name to Senor Ramon and flee to Acalpuco?<\/p>\n<p>Echoing Minority Leader Chuck Schumer\u2019s latest take on the issue, Colbert said, \u201cThey can not f\u2014 around. If they f\u2014 around, they\u2019ll find out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He lastly warned <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Donald Trump\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/donald-trump\">the president<\/a>, \u201cRelease all the files, Don or Chuckie Schooms will cut a b\u2014-.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just hours after Colbert\u2019s broadcast, Trump took to his social media post to announce he has signed the bill.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed, &#8220;Perhaps the truth about these Democrats, and their associations with Jeffrey Epstein, will soon be revealed, because I HAVE JUST SIGNED THE BILL TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>DON&#8217;T MISS&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/entertainment\/tv\/187439\/stephen-colbert-JD-vance-response\">Stephen Colbert slams JD Vance&#8217;s response to racist Young Republican group chat<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/entertainment\/tv\/185626\/stephen-colbert-show-cancellation?utm_source=mynewsassistant.com&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=embedded_search_item_desktop\">Stephen Colbert breaks rules on air without fear &#8211; &#8216;What are they gonna do? Cancel me?&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/entertainment\/celebrity-news\/185798\/stephen-colbert-trump-united-states-government?utm_source=mynewsassistant.com&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=embedded_search_item_desktop\">Stephen Colbert trolls Donald Trump as says his show &#8216;outlasted US government&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Over the past few months, the president has tried to distance himself from the disgraced mogul and the files pertaining to his high-profile sex-trafficking case.<\/p>\n<p>While speaking to reporters outside the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"White House\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/white-house\">White House<\/a> in July, Donald said, \u201cI have nothing to do with the guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing relating to the Epstein case. He has not been accused of any crimes by law enforcement nor has he been identified as the subject of any investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Colbert\u2019s relationship with Trump has caused a frenzy lately, especially since the host\u2019s show was canceled shortly after criticizing the president and Paramount for their $16 million settlement on a lawsuit over the editing of a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris in the lead-up to the 2024 election.<\/p>\n<p>On his Truth Social account, Trump seemingly admitted he was involved in CBS\u2019 decision but couldn\u2019t take the full blame.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody is saying that I was solely responsible for the firing of Stephen Colbert from CBS, Late Night. That is not true!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He concluded, \u201cThe reason he was fired was a pure lack of TALENT, and the fact that this deficiency was costing CBS $50 Million Dollars a year in losses \u2014 and it was only going to get WORSE!&#8221;<\/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.the-express.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Colbert has sent a clear message to Donald Trump on the Epstein files, \u201cyour move, Don.\u201d During the Thursday, November 20 episode of The Late Show, the 61-year-old host\u2019s monologue shed light on the House of Representatives\u2019 427-1 vote to pass an act that moves to release the files from the registered sex offender\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2168773,"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":[416536,22389,386064,346460,22942,416535,352993,22653,386063,350362,33798,361218,416537],"class_list":["post-2168772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-chuck-shumer","tag-donald-trump","tag-donald-trump-truth-social","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-jeffrey-epstein-files","tag-senate","tag-stephen-colbert","tag-stephen-colbert-cancellation","tag-talk-show","tag-the-late-show","tag-trump-colbert-feud","tag-trump-epstein-friendship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Stephen-Colbert-says-hes-thankful-about-Epstein-news-Celebrity.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168772","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=2168772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2168774,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168772\/revisions\/2168774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2168773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2168772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2168772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2168772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}