For news watchers, there was really only one thing worth talking about this entire week. So, the writers’ room of “Saturday Night Live” can be forgiven for airing three sketches that touched on Jeffrey Epstein‘s newly released emails.

The show hopped right into the controversy with a cold open of a White House briefing on the Epstein files.

“As you all know, there was no news this week,” Ashley Padilla’s Karoline Leavitt said. “Nothing happening with the president. No weird information was revealed. No one had any accusations that rhyme with ‘edophile.'”

Padilla directly quoted Leavitt’s assertion that President Donald Trump “did nothing wrong” before letting the mask slip.

“If anything, his crime was loving too much…and possibly too young,” she said.

Eventually, James Austin Johnson‘

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