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Fox News host Tucker Carlson made headlines recently when he conducted a deep dive into the death of the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, who committed suicide in 2019 while in jail awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
Carlson raised several important points about Epstein and called on House Republicans to open an investigation into Epstein’s death.
“It’s all very strange and the story gets much stranger once you start pressing a little bit. We’ve pressed pretty hard for the last few days on this question, not because we have any special affection for Jeffrey Epstein. We’ve pressed because you don’t want to live in a country where it’s possible to murder people in federal lockup, cover up the killings, and then get away with them. That’s scary,” Carlson said.
“That should not be allowed in this or any other civilized place, but in the case of Jeffrey Epstein, it appears that it was allowed and on one level, you can see why it was. This is one of those crimes that have no natural constituency pushing to solve it,” he added.
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Earlier this month, explosive information came to light as the public awaits the pending release of the full “client list” kept by Epstein, which has been largely under wraps for many years.
A report from Fox News detailed how former President Bill Clinton had a relationship, to an extent, with Epstein.
“Former President Bill Clinton was a much more frequent flyer on a registered sex offender’s infamous jet than previously reported, with flight logs showing the former president taking at least 26 trips aboard the “Lolita Express” — even apparently ditching his Secret Service detail for at least five of the flights, according to records obtained by FoxNews.com.,” the outlet reported.
Visitor logs also allegedly show Epstein even visited the Clinton White House twice on the same day three different times, the Daily Mail reported.
“It’s not clear if Epstein, who killed himself in his jail cell in 2019, actually met or interacted with Clinton during his other visits, and the former president wasn’t in the building for at least a few of Epstein’s trips there, the Mail said. The visitor logs, obtained by the Mail through a request with the Clinton Presidential library, showed Epstein first visiting the White House on Feb. 25, 1993 – a little more than a month after the Democrat first took office. During that visit, his destination was listed as WW — apparently the West Wing – and his invitation was issued by Rubin, according to the report,” the New York Post reported.
“Clinton has denied any knowledge of Epstein’s sexual misdeeds, but had maintained ties with him over the years and was said to have been a passenger on Epstein’s private jet several times, including once in 2002 when the ex-president was photographed with one of Epstein’s eventual rape accusers. Maxwell attended the 2010 wedding of Clinton’s daughter Chelsea,” the outlet added.
Epstein’s former pilot testified in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking trial in 2021 that several powerful figures, including Clinton, flew aboard Epstein’s private plane.
The pilot, Larry Visoski, said it was common for him to be given a heads-up if Clinton or high-profile passengers like him would be flying.
Clinton’s spokesman previously admitted that the former president did board Epstein’s plane four times but said he knew nothing about Epstein’s “terrible crimes,” according to CNN.
“In 2002 and 2003, President Clinton took a total of four trips on Jeffrey Epstein’s airplane: one to Europe, one to Asia, and two to Africa, which included stops in connection with the work of the Clinton Foundation,” Clinton spokesman Angel Urena said in 2019.
“Visoski’s testimony came on the second day of Maxwell’s federal trial on charges of conspiracy and sex trafficking. The trial is likely to provide a glimpse into the enigmatic life of Epstein and illuminate some of his connections to high-profile figures like Clinton, Trump, Bill Gates, and Prince Andrew,” CNN reported.
