Former CNN White Home Correspondent Jim Acosta has mentioned that President Donald Trump has “twisted himself right into a pretzel” over the continuing blowback referring to the Epstein information.
Showing on MSNBC’s Velshi on Sunday (July 13), Acosta was requested for his ideas on the Jeffrey Epstein case and Trump’s response to the scenario. “, I’ve been round Donald Trump. I’ve been up shut with him. I believe I do know when he’s fearful, and he’s freaking out proper now over these Epstein information,” Acosta mentioned.
“It raises the query, what’s going on with Trump and these Epstein information?” he continued. “, Donald Trump, he’s all for releasing the JFK information, the MLK information, all these different information, however not the Epstein information, and it begs the query, what provides?… He’s twisted himself right into a pretzel on this.”
Final week, the Division of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) launched a press release claiming their investigation decided that there was “no incriminating ‘shopper listing’” and that Epstein “dedicated suicide in his cell on the Metropolitan Correctional Middle in New York Metropolis on August 10, 2019” whereas awaiting intercourse trafficking costs.
This report led to backlash on-line, even amongst Trump’s MAGA supporters, a lot of whom have been demanding the discharge of the so-called “shopper listing” for years. There have additionally been requires Legal professional Common Pam Bondi to resign after she mentioned in February that Epstein’s “shopper listing” was “sitting on my desk proper now to evaluation.”
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino blasted Bondi for overpromising and failing to ship on the Epstein information and has threatened to resign over the controversy.
Trump shared his ideas on Saturday (July 12), posting on Fact Social, “What’s happening with my ‘boys’ and, in some circumstances, ‘gals?’ They’re all going after Legal professional Common Pam Bondi, who’s doing a FANTASTIC JOB! We’re on one Group, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s taking place. We now have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and ‘egocentric folks’ are attempting to harm it, throughout a man who by no means dies, Jeffrey Epstein.”
Acosta mentioned the important thing concern right here is whether or not or not Trump pushed for the DOJ and FBI to shut the Epstein case.
“When the Justice Division put out that memo that attempted to comb the entire thing below the rug—did some sort of directive come out of the White Home, come from Susie Wiles, Stephen Miller, or Donald Trump to place out that memo?” he acknowledged. “The age-old Watergate query is operative right here: what did the president know—and when did he realize it?”