Comic and longtime Trump Hollywood nemesis Rosie O’Donnell went off on President Donald Trump over the Epstein Files, straight-up calling him a “serial pedophile rapist” in a new interview with podcast host Jim Acosta, without providing evidence for the claim.
While media interest in the Epstein Files story dropped off as the summer wore on, the Jeffrey Epstein saga came roaring back this week when about a dozen survivors spoke out Wednesday morning in a press conference organized by lawmakers from both parties to call for more transparency.
In an earlier interview, a group of survivors was asked “did anybody see or hear of the President himself doing anything inappropriate” in connection to Epstein, and they responded “no.”
But the full group declined to answer when they were asked about interacting with Trump during the press conference.
While Trump and O’Donnell have been locked in a long-running feud for over a decade, O’Donnell took things to eleven this week on Friday’s episode of The Jim Acosta Show.
After responding to Trump’s latest attacks, the star launched into a tirade accusing Trump of being “guilty as sin” of sex trafficking and rape in connection with Epstein:
ROSIE O’DONNELL: You know, I think that there is a line in the sand with, you know people raping children. This is a sex trafficking international coverup. He’s in the middle of
it and there’s no way, even if they redacted his name a patrillion times from the Epstein files, that he’s going to get away with it.Now the women are speaking, the little girls that are raped by grown men those girls grow up to be fierce women! Time is up when that happens, and I believe his time is up. I believe america will not stand for this! I believe (I agree with you) this is the line in the sand for meJIM ACOSTA: I think this is…ROSIE O’DONNELL: How can you deny the charges of 26 women, and then being found culpable of raping E. Jean Carroll, and then hear these women’s testimony and not still think that he is guilty? How is that possible in modern society?JIM ACOSTA: Yeah, I mean, you have a judge saying he’s liable for sexual abuse when it comes to E. Jean Carroll, and I think you’re absolutely right. The one person standing in the way of us all figuring out why his name appears multiple times in the Epstein files. We still don’t know why his names appears multiple times in Epstein’s files.ROSIE O’DONNELL: Oh, we do know why, Jim! We all know why, you have to know why! Why else do you think he paid a billion dollars to Jeffrey Epstein over the time of their friendship? Abillion dollar! He wrote in his birthday book. “Here’s to all the secrets.”JIM ACOSTA: Wonderful secrets, yeahROSIE O’DONNELL: If this was an Angela Lansbury “Murder, She Wrote,” people would be like it’s too obvious.JIM ACOSTA: We figured it out.ROSIE O’DONNELL: Obvious that he is guilty as sin. And America, you know, before he brings more troops into Chicago and harasses brown-skinned people, before he breaks more of the Constitution apart, before he starts having people get killed, we have to do something, America!JIM ACOSTA: Yeah, I agree.ROSIE O’DONNELL: And it’s time for every person with a platform to speak out about it. Every single person. Now or never, break glass in time of emergency. It’s time to break the glass!JIM ACOSTA: And you saw, Rosie, what he did the other day when those brave women were up on Capitol Hill, the survivors, their families, they were all speaking out at the same time Donald Trump is saying it’s a Democratic hoax.ROSIE O’DONNELL: How dare he, Jim, how dare he! for every child that was ever raped by a grown man. How dare, how dear he!One in three girls suffers child sex abuse. One in five boys, those are the statistics America, wake up, wake up. Our president is a serial pedophile rapist, and that’s what he is!
Watch above via The Jim Acosta Show.