Late Show host Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night tore into Republican lawmakers for standing by President Donald Trump even after damaging new revelations from the estate of late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Trump this summer sued the Wall Street Journal for reporting on a bizarre and cryptic birthday message to Epstein in 2003, when the two were close friends, written inside the doodled torso of a woman.
Trump said he never wrote it. Then, this week, Epstein’s estate released the “birthday book,” which includes that message and ones from other friends ― but most Republicans are either calling it a fake or simply ignoring it.
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Colbert rolled a clip of House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) earlier in the day.
“I haven’t seen it,” said Jordan. “Don’t buy it.”
Colbert fired back with a biting reminder from Jordan’s past.
“If Jim Jordan didn’t see it, it didn’t happen ― especially not in the showers at Ohio State,” he said, then encouraged his audience: “Google it.”
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Jordan, a former assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State University, has been accused of ignoring molestation allegations against the team’s doctor.
Jordan has denied those accusations, which have been corroborated by several witnesses.
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“I considered Jim Jordan a friend,” former wrestler Mike DiSabato said in 2018. “But at the end of the day, he is absolutely lying if he says he doesn’t know what was going on.”
See more in Colbert’s Tuesday night monologue:
This article originally appeared on HuffPost.