Tucker Carlson is calling on the public to ask questions "no one has ever tried to ask" about Jeffrey Epstein's case after the Justice Department and FBI decided to withhold records from the sex trafficking investigation, the Daily Caller reported.
The move, which included the acknowledgment that one particular sought-after document never actually existed, sparked a contentious conversation between Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino at the White House this week. The spat threatened to shatter relations between them and centered in part on a news story that described divisions between the FBI and the Justice Department.
"So the real question is not 'Was Jeffrey Epstein a weirdo who was abusing girls?' Yes, we can answer that. The real question is 'Why was he doing this, on whose behalf, and where did the money come from?'" Carlson said Friday at Turning Point USA's Student Action Summit.
"And those are the questions that need to be answered. I think it's entirely fair to ask them, and it's not adequate to say anyone who asked them is somehow desecrating the memory of little girls who died in Texas. They're not going to put up with that answer. I don't care who gives that answer. That is not acceptable.
"I think the real answer is Jeffrey Epstein was working on behalf of intel services, probably not American. We have every right to ask, 'On whose behalf was he working?'" Carlson said.
"How does a guy go from being a math teacher at the Dalton School in the late 70s with no college degree to having multiple airplanes, a private island, and the largest residential house in Manhattan? Where did all the money come from? And no one has ever gotten to the bottom of that because no one has ever tried. Moreover, it's extremely obvious to anyone who watches that this guy had direct connections to a foreign government."
Tensions that simmered for months boiled over on Monday when the Justice Department and FBI issued a two-page statement saying that they had concluded that Epstein did not possess a "client list," even though Bondi had intimated in February that such a document was sitting on her desk and had decided against releasing any additional records from the investigation.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
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