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\u201cI still don\u2019t understand why he even started this war,\u201d Barinholtz said in mock surprise, before launching into a coughing fit that also revealed the answer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cJeffrey Epstein<\/a> was his best friend for many, many years,\u201d the actor-comedian said between coughs as the audience cheered. \u201cAnd he wants to forget how many times he\u2019s mentioned in the Trump-Epstein files.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Trump was once close friends with the late convicted sex offender, who died in prison in 2019 in an apparent suicide. In 2024, Trump promised to release the Department of Justice\u2019s files related to Epstein if he won the election. Once in office, however, he and his administration worked to block those files from coming out. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n But that may be just scratching the surface. Rep. Jamie Raskin<\/a> (D-Md.) said a search for Trump\u2019s name in the unredacted files that lawmakers had access to returned \u201cmore than a million results<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n See more in Barinholtz\u2019s Tuesday night monologue: <\/strong><\/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.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cI still don\u2019t understand why he even started this war,\u201d Barinholtz said in mock surprise, before launching into a coughing fit that also revealed the answer. \u201cJeffrey Epstein was his best friend for many, many years,\u201d the actor-comedian said between coughs as the audience cheered. \u201cAnd he wants to forget how many times he\u2019s mentioned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2502828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[22389,380292,349840,447857,22942,345661],"class_list":["post-2502827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-donald-trump","tag-epstein-files","tag-ike-barinholtz","tag-iran-war","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-jimmy-kimmel-live"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Ike-Barinholtz-Burns-Trump-With-A-Scathing-Epstein-Reminder.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502827","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=2502827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2502829,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502827\/revisions\/2502829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2502828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}