Washington Examiner Senior Writer Joe Concha dismissed any theory that President Donald Trump is “implicated” in the client list of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Earlier this year, Attorney General Pam Bondi teased releasing the list of Epstein’s clients. However, neither her office nor the FBI has released it as promised. Bondi said she had documents related to Epstein “sitting on my desk right now to review” on Fox News around the same time.
Concha chalked up the controversy as Bondi breaking “a classic rule, which was to underpromise and overdeliver,” while on Fox Business’s Varney & Company on Wednesday.
“But I keep going back to the same question: If Epstein had such a list, it would have been weaponized by now, right?” Concha said. “For instance, we see many Democrats on social media, the usual suspects in legacy media, saying the only reason why President Trump and his team won’t release this list is because he’s implicated.”
Trump’s association with Epstein is known, but the full extent, or whether the president is associated with Epstein’s crimes, is not. The president told New York magazine in 2002 what he knew of Epstein, claiming they’d known each other for 15 years.
Epstein and Trump traveled together a number of times. An old video captured Epstein partying with Trump.
“Based on what we’ve seen from Democrats already, the peddling of Russian collusion via the garbage Steele Dossier, the fact they tried to jail him before the election, attempted to take him off state ballots, hostile media cheering all of that on. Doesn’t anybody think that Barack Obama and Joe Biden would have released such a list with Epstein — with Trump on it to ensure he didn’t get elected in 2016 when they were in power?” Concha said.
“I keep going back to that, and that’s why I think there isn’t a list.”
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) called on Bondi to “explain” her previous comments regarding the investigation.
Meanwhile, Trump has defended Bondi despite a reported threat that FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino may quit unless she is fired.