Jon Stewart Explains Why Trump Is Totally Not Suing Over This 1 Move

Jon Stewart on Thursday argued that President Donald Trump gained’t hit billionaire Elon Musk with a lawsuit after the previous White Home official used his social media platform to declare that the president was within the so-called Jeffrey Epstein recordsdata.

The “Day by day Present” host, within the newest episode of his “Weekly Present” podcast, mentioned the 2 have a relationship just like the U.S. and China, the place they perceive that “mutually assured destruction” is at play.

“I feel they know sufficient about one another,” Stewart mentioned.

“However he’s been quiet these days, don’t you assume?” replied producer Brittany Mehmedovic of Musk.

“No query, I feel, however he’s nonetheless obtained his pretty social media platform, which is MechaHitler-ing throughout individuals’s timelines so it’s nonetheless a really constructive — internet constructive for humanity,” Stewart replied.

Weeks earlier than the Trump administration confronted backlash over its dealing with of the Epstein case, Musk used his public breakup with Trump to drop a “actually large bomb” on X, alleging that the president was named in recordsdata tied to the late convicted intercourse offender.

“That’s the actual motive they haven’t been made public,” he wrote within the since-deleted put up from June.

In current weeks, Musk has addressed the Epstein fallout on X, calling it a “cover up” and claiming there was “only one reason” that Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) shut down upcoming Home votes to dam a bipartisan effort to vote on the discharge of the Epstein recordsdata.

“I can’t for the lifetime of me assume why Trump wouldn’t sue Elon for ‘Trump is within the Epstein recordsdata,’” mentioned Stewart earlier than cracking a smile and including that the president is “so clearly throughout” the recordsdata.

″[Then] they’re like, ‘Truly, we are able to’t. There’s nobody else that may launch a satellite tv for pc — we are able to’t use NASA as a result of we lower their funding to some extent the place they’re a nonfunctioning group, like we’re gutting the very authorities that might give us choices,’” he mentioned.