I understand what he’s doing,” Jon Stewart said of Trump’s decision to start ranting and raving about what he has deemed the Jeffrey Epstein “hoax.” Stewart shared his theory on a new episode of his Weekly Show podcast that Trump’s trying to cloud to legitimacy of the Epstein files because he knows he would likely be implicated by their release.

President Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, and Rupert Murdoch over a report of an alleged birthday letter from Trump to Jeffrey Epstein. Trump denies he wrote such a letter.