'Whitewash': Scarborough slams Trump fight against the full release of Epstein files
“Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough slammed President Donald Trump and his supporters for letting Trump “whitewash” convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his own personal connection to Epstein after years of selling pedophile conspiracies involving Democrats.
Scarborough and guest Anand Giridharadas, publisher of “The Ink”, criticized Trump following a Wednesday press conference with Epstein survivors on the day of a bipartisan effort by Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) pushing to compel the Justice Department to release files related to convicted sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
But Trump and his defendants oppose the release of the entirety of the case, drawing suspicion from critics and some of his own supporters.
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“[Trump] is blaming it on Obama. It all happened during his administration. He's blaming it on Biden. It all happened during his first administration,” Scarborough said. “… Again, the irony — the irony — that that this [MAGA] movement, that would find rando Hollywood stars and just call them pedophiles because they voted for Democrats, … they've spent 20 years calling these people pedophiles, and now you've got a group of people in that same movement trying to whitewash probably the greatest pedophile of the 21st century, the 20th and the 21st century.”
“And now they're saying, ‘oh, everything's out there’ or ‘this is a hoax’ again,” Scarborough groused, speaking of Republican and Trump administration defenders claiming all of the relevant Epstein related documents are already publicly circulating. “How rich.”
Giridharadas told Scarborough the Epstein scandal is “the story … Donald Trump is most afraid of.”
“[T]his is revealing, the fact that [Trump] won't simply release these files, bring transparency, honor these [Epstein] survivors. It reveals his entire project to be a con to his base,” said Giridharadas. “… He ran on saying, ‘look, there's a group of wealthy, powerful people who are colluding. They're all in on it: Democrats, Republicans — they're all in on this thing — and I am outside of this system. I don't care. I say what I think, and I'm going to expose the system. I'm going to drain the swamp.’”
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“And now, in what is the ultimate … almost caricature example of the wealthy and powerful colluding and doing harm, [Trump] has revealed that he is not a serious person. … He's revealing that his supporters are chow for his, for his own enrichment and the enrichment of his friends. He doesn't care about them. He doesn't respect them, and he doesn't think they're smart enough to see through this, Giridharadas said, adding, “and I think actually they are smart enough.”
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