Trump's plan to use Iran war as 'distraction' from Epstein files has one huge flaw: Kimmel

A war Donald Trump started, allegedly to distract from the ongoing release of Jeffrey Epstein's files, could deal his administration a harsher blow according to Jimmy Kimmel.

The talk show host believes the war with Iran is a distraction tactic utilized by the president to reduce focus on the release of convicted sex offender Epstein's files. Being named or pictured in the files is not an indication of wrongdoing, and many of those identified in the files or in previous releases related to Epstein have expressly denied any wrongdoing.

Trump's name appears frequently in the files, with Kimmel dubbing it the Trump-Epstein files. In the opening monologue of his show, the talk show veteran suggested the president had caused a bigger problem for himself than the Epstein files would have been by launching into a war with Iran.

He said, "He's going to make a huge mess and then walk away like it's the toilet in the Lincoln bathroom. Trump claims we are way ahead of schedule on the war. He's got a schedule, which means it should be over just around the time we see his taxes and the rest of the Trump-Epstein files.

"Ironically, this war he launched to distract us from those could turn out to be more damaging to him than the Trump-Epstein files themselves. They're saying this could be worse, and that would mean he would have to come up with another distraction from the war."

Kimmel went on to give Trump a new distraction tactic, joking that to distract from the war with Iran and the economic consequences, the president could release the remaining Epstein files.

Kimmel added, "If you do need that [distraction] Mr. President, I got a good one. You know what would distract us from the war? Release the unreleased Trump-Epstein files. That would be a shiny object we could gather around."