The latest Saturday Night Live cold open dove right into the big story of the week: 20,000 Jeffrey Epstein emails were released by the House Oversight Committee, and many of them mentioned President Donald Trump by name.
The cold open featured Trump (played once again by James Austin Johnson) crashing a press conference on C-SPAN to answer journalists’ questions.
One journalist (played by Kenan Thompson) asked, “Even Trump’s biggest supporters think that he should release the Epstein files. What does Trump have to hide?”
Trump answered, “I am hiding almost nothing. Just enough to make it extremely suspicious.”
The president continued, “But let me ask you a question. If there was something incriminating about me in the files, then why would I cover them up?”
When the journalist pointed out that this is exactly what he’d do, Trump tried another excuse.
“OK, let me go again: If I was innocent, wouldn’t I just release all the files?” Trump said.
Thompson’s reporter once again answered, frustrated, “Yes!”
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