The MAGA fringes still very badly want “Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself” to be a thing.
On Sunday, Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo grilled FBI Director Kash Patel and his deputy director Dan Bongino over the far-right conspiracy that the wealthy sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein didn’t commit suicide but was killed in prison in 2019 to prevent him from incriminating the Clintons and other world leaders.
“You said Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide. People don’t believe it,” Bartiromo said bluntly to Patel on the Sunday show.
“Well, listen, they have a right to their opinion. But as someone who has worked as a public defender, as a prosecutor, who’s been in that prison system, who’s been in that metropolitcal detention center, who’s been in segregated housing, you know a suicide when you see one,” Patel replied. “And that’s what that was.”
“He killed himself,” Bongino chimed in. “I’ve seen the whole file. He killed himself.”
BARTIROMO: You said Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide. People don’t believe it.PATEL: Listen, they have a right to their opinion, but you know a suicide when you see one, and that’s what that was.BONGINO: He killed himself. I’ve seen the whole file. He killed himself. pic.twitter.com/0mVwRcw2KN
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 18, 2025
Those answers led to some grumblings on Truth Social.
“Ok ‘he committed suicide’ so can you explain why the cameras were shut off during that ‘suicide,’” one poster pondered. “He was on suicide watch, and the guards just left. How dumb do you take the American people to be? There are No coincidences.”
“Ok let’s recap, one the most secure detention centers, guards fell asleep, cameras didn’t work, medical examiner stated that the neck injury wasn’t consistent with a suicide, but now you want us to believe that it was, what a crock!” wrote another disappointed MAGA acolyte. “I’m seriously disappointed in Bongino and Kash.”
On Monday, the Epstein question was brought up again at White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s briefing, this time by Liam Cosgrove, a “reporter” for the far-right conspiracy website ZeroHedge.
Cosgrove began his question by referring to a video Trump posted on Truth Social peddling a conspiracy theory accusing Bill and Hillary Clinton of murdering their political rivals and covering them up as suicides.
“That’s just a lead-in to my question about the most famous Clinton-related suicide, which is that of Jeffresy Epstein,” Cosgrove said. “There’s still a lot of questions around that case. You’ve released phase one of the Epstein files, what was missing from that was any connection to his ties to intelligence agencies, and that’s really the whole story—not just trafficking young girls, doing it on behalf of intelligence agencies and even potentially as part of a blackmail ring with potential ties to the Israeli government. So for phase two, when can we expect it? Will it have information pertaining to those aspects of the Epstein case?”
Leavitt sidestepped the question completely. “I would defer you to the Department of Justice on [Attorney General Pam Bondi’s] timeline,” she replied.
While Epstein’s long history of meticulous sexual abuse and the powerful connections he maintained (like Bill Clinton and Donald Trump) are deeply disturbing, it’s clear that this prime MAGA theory is beyond logic. They couldn’t care less about the numerous victims. For them, it’s the Clintons who killed Epstein because they’re pedophiles, and Trump should investigate and expose the entire Democratic Party for being pedophiles too. That’s why they won’t take no for an answer.
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