“ Daily Show ” host Jon Stewart said the unrest in Los Angeles is a “predictable outcome” of heavy-handed federal tactics in the city ― and that led him to one key question about President Donald Trump .
“What’s it meant to distract from?” he wondered, then added sarcastically: “I mean, I can’t even remember, what were we even talking about right before the first Waymo went up in flames ?”
He quickly answered his own question: accusations by Trump’s former ally Elon Musk that the president is named in the Jeffrey Epstein files that the administration had promised to release, then didn’t.
Stewart pointed to a curious interview last year in which Trump quickly answered “yes” when asked if he would declassify files related to 9/11 and JFK.
But when asked about Epstein ― the la