Donald Trump’s director of the FBI Kash Patel happened to be recording a podcast appearance when Elon Musk posted that the president is in the Epstein files . And while Patel opted out of commenting on the allegation, his avoidance made Seth Meyers laugh a lot on Monday night, considering Patel would be the most apt person to immediately debunk Musk’s assertion.

To kick off his “A Closer Look” segment, the NBC host made a point to highlight Musk’s accusations, saying, “I just want us all to hold space for the fact that the richest man in the world said the most powerful man in the world was suppressing evidence of his ties to the world’s most notorious child sex trafficker, both because it was massive news and because it is so funny.”

As the segment went on, Meyers marveled that not on

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