BREAKING: Colbert’s Final Christmas Takes Aim at Trump as the Epstein Files Collapse Into Black Ink

The Justice Department finally released a long-promised batch of Jeffrey Epstein records this week, claiming it marked a new era of transparency. Instead, the disclosure quickly revealed itself to be far thinner than advertised — a collection of documents stripped of detail by sweeping redactions. At the same time, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert aired its final holiday cartoon, delivering a brutal, unfiltered satire of Trump and his inner circle that said far more about power and accountability than the government release ever did.

We’ll break it all down below — how a release billed as massive became mostly blacked-out pages, why the speed of the DOJ’s review immediately raised red flags, what the documents still conceal, and how Colbert’s final animated send-off exposed truths the official record continues to hide.