As President Donald Trump introduced Thursday that he’ll direct his administration to launch recordsdata on UFOs and the opportunity of alien life, a clip of late-night host Seth Meyers resurfaced. Seven months in the past, Meyers had predicted that Trump would possibly make a UFO-related declaration to divert consideration from revelations about Jeffrey Epstein.
Final July, Trump confronted a barrage of detrimental press when The Wall Road Journal reported that he despatched Epstein, the late convicted intercourse offender, a lewd birthday message in 2003. The message contained a fictional, cryptic dialogue embedded in a drawing of a girl’s torso. Trump denies writing the message and is suing the Journal.
Because the Epstein story started to snowball, Meyers joked on the July 24 episode of “Late Evening” that Trump was seemingly searching for a solution to distract the general public.
“No matter is in these Epstein recordsdata should be actually f–king unhealthy,” Meyers stated on the time. “They should be discovering so many mentions of Trump, they’re going to have to alter the identify to the Trump recordsdata that includes Jeffrey Epstein. They’re so determined to distract everybody.”
The comic the added, “I truthfully assume we’re only one Epstein story away from Trump saying that UFOs are actual.”
You’ll be able to watch the “Late Evening” section your self within the video under.
The Justice Division finally launched a few of its recordsdata on Epstein, regardless of a November regulation requiring the discharge of all materials with solely victims’ names redacted. Even so, parts of the recordsdata past victims’ identities and pictures have been additionally redacted. The controversy has been a thorny challenge for the Trump administration, drawing criticism from authorities officers, media pundits, and the general public over continued secrecy.
Trump has persistently denied any wrongdoing or data of Epstein’s legal actions. On Tuesday, he reiterated he had “nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein.”
On Thursday, Trump introduced he would launch paperwork associated to UFOs, writing on Fact Social.
“Based mostly on the super curiosity proven, I might be directing the Secretary of Struggle, and different related Departments and Businesses, to start the method of figuring out and releasing Authorities recordsdata associated to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all different info related to those extremely advanced, however extraordinarily fascinating and essential, issues. GOD BLESS AMERICA!,” the president wrote.
The subject of aliens swirled across the Trump administration this week after former President Barack Obama discovered himself in sizzling water over feedback in regards to the existence of extraterrestrial life.
Throughout an look on Brian Tyler Cohen‘s podcast final week, Obama took half in a rapid-fire Q&A that touched on whether or not aliens have ever visited Earth. “They’re actual however I haven’t seen them,” Obama stated throughout Cohen’s lightning spherical of questions. “They usually’re not being saved in … What’s it? Space 51. There’s no underground facility until there’s this huge conspiracy they usually hid it from the president of the US.”
A number of days later, Obama walked again the feedback on social mediasaying the probabilities are excessive that extraterrestrial life exists however clarifying that he noticed no proof of aliens making contact with Earth whereas serving as president.
Nonetheless, the feedback have been sufficient for reporters to pepper White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and the president himself with questions on alien lifeforms.
