Jordan Klepper Charts Trump's Long History with Epstein & Nick Offerman Sounds Alarm on National Parks | Thomas Chatterton Williams

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🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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With MAGA and Democrats demanding answers about the Epstein files and Trump denying their existence, Jordan Klepper charts the president’s well-documented history with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, which might be why the president wants the entire thing to blow over. Plus, Michael Kosta offers up a defense from Mar-a-Lago. Do you have a moment to talk about the environment with Nick Offerman? The actor joins to sound off on Trump’s cuts to America’s national parks under Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, which have rangers resorting to desperate measures and threaten the future of our country’s pastoral gifts. Thomas Chatterton Williams, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of the forthcoming book, “Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse,” joins Jordan to discuss his analysis of America’s fall from Obama-era optimism to the division and cynicism of the current Trump administration. He points to factors like America’s “fetishization” of race and identity and liberal missteps in response to the murder of George Floyd in 2020 as a catalyst for this paradigm shift, and describes how aspects of France’s universal approach to identity can help America achieve a more post-racial society. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:06.5	From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central,
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0:13.9	This is The Daily Show with your host, Jordan Clever.
0:18.2	Thank you. Jordan Clepper.
0:30.6	Welcome to the day.
0:34.4	I got to tell you, we got so much to talk about tonight.
0:37.3	The government insists there's no government conspiracy. We release our own
0:38.8	Epstein files and we go for a walk in the woods with Nick Offerman. So let's get in a headlock.
0:50.3	We are on week two of the Maga Civil War over the Epstein files.
0:56.7	And the Trump administration can't get its stories straight.
1:00.3	There was a client list, then there was no client list.
1:03.5	They were going to release all the files,
1:05.6	and then they decided not to release any files.
1:08.6	So let's see what today's excuse is.
1:12.6	I would say that, you know, these files were made up by Comey.
1:16.6	They were made up by Obama.
1:18.6	They were made up by the Biden, you know.
1:21.6	Okay. Cool.
1:23.6	Cool as a cucumber.
1:26.6	This guy's now worried about a thing.
1:29.6	So let me get this straight.
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