Daily Caller News Foundation co-founder Tucker Carlson accused Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Justice Department (DOJ) on Tuesday of covering up deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes.
Axios reported on Sunday that, based on a two-page memo, the DOJ and FBI concluded that there had been no “client list” left by Epstein, despite continued public skepticism. Carlson, on “The Tucker Carlson Show,” said he thought it was most likely that Bondi’s DOJ was concealing information to protect intelligence agencies.
“So let’s just assess this logically. They’re covering up — the DOJ, the current DOJ under Pam Bondi — is covering up crimes. Very serious crimes by their own description. Why are they doing that? So there are really only two potential explanations that I can think of … The first is that [President Donald] Trump is involved,” Carlson said. “That Trump is on the list. That they’ve got tape of Trump doing something awful. I don’t believe that for two reasons. One, I’ve talked to Trump about it a lot. And I know him. He’s not that, for whatever his sins. I don’t think he’s that guy, actually. I don’t think he likes creepy sex stuff. That’s just my view.”
“But more, I think convincing is that this is all information that the Biden administration had. And if there was evidence that Trump had been involved in illegal sexual activity, you think the people who made up Russiagate wouldn’t have leaked it? Come on now,” he continued. “So the only other explanation that I can think of … is that intel services are at the very center of the story. U.S. and Israeli. And they’re being protected.”
Epstein was arrested in 2019 and charged with sex trafficking.
“It’s sitting on my desk right now to review. That’s been a directive by President Trump. I’m reviewing that,” Bondi told Fox News in February in response to a question about an Epstein client list.
The DOJ referred the DCNF to a Tuesday cabinet meeting where Trump and Bondi spoke about Epstein.
Epstein was found dead in his New York Metropolitan Correctional Center cell shortly after, with officials asserting the deceased pedophile hanged himself in the cell.
Axios also reported that the memo concluded there was no evidence of foul play in Epstein’s death. Numerous fierce Trump supporters are turning on the president’s own DOJ after the memo.
Fox News’s Peter Doocy pressed White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday about the apparent gulf between Bondi’s past remarks and the memo.
“[Bondi] said the entirety of the paperwork, all of the paper in relation to Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes,” Leavitt said. “That’s what the attorney general was referring to, and I’ll let her speak for that.”
Epstein’s death has fueled years of theories due to the malfunctioning of prison cameras and guards admitting to falsifying records regarding checking on the then-inmate. The DOJ inspector general later verified that numerous surveillance cameras outside Epstein’s cell were inoperable, while others captured the common area outside his door.
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Tucker Carlson’s jaw-dropping theory on why Trump is burying the Epstein list
Tucker Carlson believes the government is ‘covering up’ the Epstein files to protect US and Israeli intelligence services.
The former Fox News host is leading a MAGA backlash against the Trump admins’ failure to deliver on its promise to release Epstein’s anticipated ‘client list.’
Trump and his allies had long teased the release of significant information about the disgraced financier’s mysterious death and a list of influential figures linked to Epstein’s crimes.
But in a major U-turn this week, Attorney General Pam Bondi said there is no evidence Epstein was murdered or that he kept anything amounting to a ‘client list.’
On his podcast today, Tucker said it was ‘obvious’ that Bondi was ‘covering up crimes’.
Amid mounting scrutiny over Trump’s handling of the controversy, Carlson said he is not convinced that the president was covering his own alleged ties to Epstein, and felt the reason is hinged on espionage.
‘I don’t think he’s that guy, actually,’ Carlson said of Trump. ‘I don’t think he likes creepy sex stuff.’
Rather, Carlson floated a more sinister plot to protect the US and Israeli intelligence agencies was driving Trump’s response.
‘The only other explanation that I can think of… is that intel services are at the very center of this story, U.S. and Israeli, and they’re being protected,’ he said.
Tucker Carlson said he believes the Trump administration’s ‘cover up’ of files related to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is aimed at protecting the US and Israeli intelligence services
Carlson waded into the controversy surrounding Epstein after Trump’s administration issued a memo this week claiming that the notorious pedophile had ‘no client list’ and ruled that his mysterious death in 2019 was a suicide
‘I think that seems like the most obvious.’
Carlson waded into the controversy hours after Elon Musk launched into another attack on MAGA world by claiming that former Trump advisor Steve Bannon is implicated in the Epstein files.
Musk also alleged weeks ago that Trump is in the Epstein files, saying that ‘is the real reason they have not been made public.’
But on Carlson’s show, his guest Sagaar Enjeti, the host of Breaking Points, agreed that intelligence services likely had a role in the growing scandal over the release of the files.
Enjeti pointed to reports in 2021 that alleged that federal prosecutors had chosen not to prosecute pedophilia cases within the CIA.
‘There have been multiple documented cases of pedophilia inside of the CIA perpetrated by CIA officers,’ he said.
‘This was a BuzzFeed News piece years back where the CIA specifically did not want to prosecute those individuals in federal court for fear that they would reveal sources and methods if they were pulled into open court and they basically just made it go away.
‘The only time they actually prosecuted somebody for child pornography was whenever he’d already been prosecuted for mishandling classified information.’
Carlson joked in response: ‘Well, when they want to crush you, they put kiddie porn on your computer. It’s why I don’t have a computer!’
The issue of Trump’s handling of the Epstein files led the president to snap at a reporter on Tuesday when they asked Bondi about the Justice Department’s internal review of the documents.
Trump brushed off fury from his MAGA base over the abrupt conclusion of the Epstein probe this week, and accused the reporter who quizzed Bondi of ‘desecrating’ the deadly Texas flood tragedy.
‘Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?’ Trump lamented to reporters present for his six-month Cabinet meeting. ‘This guy’s been talked about for years.’
He said that the media needs to move on from ‘this creep’ Epstein and focus more on the tragedy in Texas and ongoing wars in the Middle East and between Russia and Ukraine.
In the past, Trump has riled up his base with theories over Epstein’s death, and in his 2024 campaign he vowed to release all the government’s secrets, along with documents from the much-scrutinized assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
Trump, however, is now ready to move on from the Epstein files.
‘Do you want to waste the time – do you feel like answering?’ Trump asked his Attorney General, who was just one seat away from the president with Secretary of State Marco Rubio between them during a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
Bondi said she didn’t mind answering the question, but Trump continued his tirade against the Post reporter.
‘I mean, I can’t believe you’re asking a question on Epstein at a time like this where we’re having some of the greatest success and also tragedy with what happened in Texas.
‘It just seems like a desecration, but you go ahead,’ he said to his embattled attorney general.
Bondi then sought to clarify her past remarks about having Epstein’s ‘client list’ on her desk, saying she never admitted there was a ‘client list’ and that she was actually referencing the complete paperwork related to the investigation into Epstein’s child sex trafficking crimes.
She then said that the reason more evidence was not released is because it contained child pornography.
‘They turned out to be child porn downloaded by that disgusting Jeffrey Epstein,’ Bondi said. ‘Never going to be released, never going to see the light of day.’
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