The “Last Word” host began his segment with a clip of Trump being asked Monday in the Oval Office if he would sign a bill to release the files, after several months of Trump and his administration downplaying or downright dismissing his past ties to Epstein.

“I do want to,” he told reporters. “Here’s what I want. We have nothing to do with Epstein. The Democrats do. All of his friends were Democrats. ... Some of the people that we mentioned are being looked at very seriously for their relationship to Jeffrey Epstein.”

Trump continued at the time, “But they were with him all the time. I wasn’t. I wasn’t at all.”

O’Donnell noted that Trump is “the only politician” in all of the documents released to date shown “partying” with Epstein on video, and that Trump seems to have socialized far more often with Epstein than anyone else he’s now naming, suggesting the president lied.

O’Donnell on Monday said, “In a tweet, Donald Trump threw [former President] Bill Clinton’s name on a list of men and told this lie: ‘Records show that these men, and many others, spent large portions of their life with Epstein, and on his “Island.” Stay tuned!!!’”

O’Donnell noted that Epstein himself had stated in writing that Clinton was “NEVER EVER” on his mysterious island, however, and that the flight logs for Epstein’s infamous private jet only show Clinton having traveled multiple times to Europe and Africa with him.

O’Donnell argued the Epstein files are thus “still really about Donald Trump,” citing his break with “otherwise flawless ally” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), whom Trump called a “traitor” after she became one of the first House Republicans calling for disclosure.

O’Donnell posited one reason for Trump’s pivot is that he knows other Republican lawmakers might soon join Greene in voting to release the files and that Trump wants to paint that eventuality as Republicans “following his orders” — instead of disobeying them.

He then noted that most Republican lawmakers admittedly seem to “worship” Trump, but “if they see one or two” colleagues like Greene and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) “win in their defiance” against him, Trump’s grip on the party could very well slip.

O’Donnell said, “There’s going to be a massive rebellion against Donald Trump in the House of Representatives when that vote is conducted tomorrow. And Donald Trump knew that. ... And so Donald Trump has been trying to label it as something other than rebellion.”

He then cited recent comments from Massie, who noted an official Justice Department investigation could prevent the Epstein files from coming out — as classified documents “can’t be released” if there is an ongoing federal investigation.