In a series of newly released tapes posted by the Daily Beast over the weekend, convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is heard talking to author Michael Wolff about his relationship with Donald Trump. In the recordings, Epstein tells Wolff that he was Trump’s best friend for ten years and describes numerous of their scandalous exploits.

Audio clips of Wolff’s August 2017 interview with Epstein — two years before he was found dead in a prison cell — can be found on the Daily Beast website. These are the kind of shocking revelations that would normally torpedo a political campaign. But as Jimmy Kimmel, host of Jimmy Kimmel Live, noted during his monologue on Monday night, it hasn’t had an impact.

“We heard a great audio tape of Jeffrey Epstein saying he was Trump’s ‘best friend’ and sharing a bunch of crazy stories — this hardly moves the needle,” Kimmel noted. “Remember when Mitt Romney went down for putting a dog carrier on the roof of his car? We just had a hundred hours of Jeffrey Epstein saying he and Trump were best friends. I didn’t even get a notification about it on my phone. I didn’t get any texts about this.’

Kimmel noted that Wolff “took the time to release this information.” He pointed out that Epstein at one point described Trump as having “no moral compass.” Kimmel joked: “You know what kind of lowlife you have to be before Jeffrey Epstein says you have no morals? It’s like R. Kelly got mad at you for leaving the toilet seat up.”

He added, “But none of the many child welfare advocates wearing his hat seem to care at all. The truth means almost nothing.”

Wolff was researching his book “Fire and Fury” while interviewing Epstein in 2017. (For their part, the Trump campaign called the tapes “false defamation” and “election interference” in a statement to the Daily Beast.)

Kimmel shared footage from a rally in Pennsylvania where Trump joked about shooting reporters. ‘Don’t know. At least for once he’s being honest, I guess,” Kimmel said.

He then noted Trump spokesman Stephen Cheung’s attempt to explain that the statement “has nothing to do with harming the media” (although Trump clearly says in the clip that he “wouldn’t mind” if reporters being shot).

“Spoken like a proud Trump University graduate,” Kimmel said.

Meanwhile, Kimmel ended his monologue with a closing argument for the American audience: Let’s move on from the drama and stress.

“Forget which side you’re on,” he said. “I want you to take a moment to imagine a world where you wake up in the morning, watch the news, and no one says the words ‘Donald’ or ‘Trump.’ Just a lot of normal, boring stuff. Wouldn’t that be nice? No lawn signs. No red hats. Don’t argue with your grandfather. You check the sports, Al Roker does it again – you go to work. Wouldn’t that be great? Let’s remove this cancerous polyp from our collective national colon and move on. And don’t forget to vote!”