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Jon Stewart Explains Why Trump Is Totally Not Suing Over This 1 Move
Jon Stewart on Thursday argued that President Donald Trump won't hit billionaire Elon Musk with a lawsuit after the former White House official used his social media platform to declare that the president was in the so-called Jeffrey Epstein files.
The 'Daily Show' host, in the latest episode of his 'Weekly Show' podcast, said the two have a relationship similar to the U.S. and China, where they understand that 'mutually assured destruction' is at play.
'I think they know enough about each other,' Stewart said.
'But he's been quiet lately, don't you think?' replied producer Brittany Mehmedovic of Musk.
'No question, I think, but he's still got his lovely social media platform, which is MechaHitler-ing all over people's timelines so it's still a very positive — net positive for humanity,' Stewart replied.
Weeks before the Trump administration faced backlash over its handling of the Epstein case, Musk used his public breakup with Trump to drop a 'really big bomb' on X, alleging that the president was named in files tied to the late convicted sex offender.
'That is the real reason they have not been made public,' he wrote in the since-deleted post from June.
The post arrived weeks before The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Attorney General Pam Bondi informed Trump in May that his name was featured multiple times in the Epstein files.
In recent weeks, Musk has addressed the Epstein fallout on X, calling it a 'cover up' and claiming there was 'only one reason' that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) shut down upcoming House votes to block a bipartisan effort to vote on the release of the Epstein files.
'I cannot for the life of me think why Trump wouldn't sue Elon for 'Trump is in the Epstein files,'' said Stewart before cracking a smile and adding that the president is 'so clearly all over' the files.
Stewart then referred to Trump's threats to canceling government contracts with Musk's companies like SpaceX.
″[Then] they're like, 'Actually, we can't. There's no one else that can launch a satellite — we can't use NASA because we cut their funding to a point where they are a nonfunctioning organization, like we're gutting the very government that would give us options,'' he said.
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