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Jimmy Kimmel has revealed his shock that newly surfaced claims about Donald Trump’s relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein did not “move” the election.

In a final pitch to the viewers on Monday evening Jimmy Kimmel Live, the host was referring to claims that just came to light about Trump’s past friendship with the late billionaire pedophile.

Journalist Michael Wolff released an audio clip on his podcast four days before the end of the presidential campaign Fire and fury from what he says is that Epstein speaks in intimate detail about the inner workings of Trump’s cabinet.

“I still don’t understand how this race is so close,” Kimmel said exasperatedly.

“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.

“We just spent 100 hours hearing Jeffrey Epstein say he and Trump were best friends, I didn’t even get a notification about it on my phone,” Kimmel said.

“Epstein said Trump told him he likes to have sex with his best friends’ wives to the point where Epstein described Trump as having no moral compass,” Kimmel continued.

“Do you know what kind of low life you have to live before Jeffrey Epstein says you have no morals (compass)? It’s like R Kelly got mad at you for leaving the toilet seat up.

Recordings obtained by The everyday beast reportedly contained Epstein’s scathing assessment of Trump.

“The moral compass simply does not exist,” he told Wolff.

In his latest attack on Trump before America goes to the polls today, Kimmel also referenced a June Fox News interview in which Trump was asked whether he would release the Epstein files.

Trump didn’t hesitate when asked whether he would release the 9/11 files or the JFK files, but when it came to Epstein, he paused and said, “I think I would, but I think that less so because you don’t do that.” I don’t want to affect people’s lives if there’s fake stuff in there.”

“Right, better lock them in a bathroom at Mar-a-Lago,” Kimmel joked, referring to Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents upon leaving the White House.

Respond to The everyday beastIn reporting on the audio clip shared by Trump, Karoline Leavitt, the national press secretary for Trump’s 2024 election campaign, said: “Michael Wolff is a disgraced writer who routinely makes up lies to sell fiction books because he clearly has no morals or ethics .

“He waited until days before the election to issue outlandish false smears, all in an effort to engage in blatant election interference on behalf of Kamala Harris.

“He is a failed journalist who resorts to lying for attention.”