Jamie Raskin Floats New Trump Epstein Motive on CNN — A Criminal One

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) floated a new and criminal motivation for President Donald Trump’s fervent demands that the so-called “Epstein Files” disappear from public consciousness without further disclosures on CNN Wednesday.

The backlash to President Donald Trump’s attempt to quash conspiracy theories about deceased sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein escalated to new heights this week as Trump lashed out with a series of public statements disavowing those supporters who continue to ask for more information.

Most of the Epstein-curious critics believe that the case is being quashed in order to protect someone, the identity of whom depends on the point of view of the critic.

On Wednesday night’s edition of CNN’s Laura Coates Live, Raskin offered another possible motivation — that Trump intends to commit “blackmail” with the information:

RASKIN: Just turn over the files.

COATES: Well, that’s an interesting point, especially because Trump posted on Truth Social, and I’m going to quote him here, why didn’t these radical left lunatics release the Epstein files? If there was anything in there that could have hurt the MAGA movement, why didn’t they use it?

Well, let me ask you, what do you say to critics who question why it did spend in existence? If the files have been there, why President Biden or his administration under the DOJ as well never released the files?

RASKIN: Well, first of all, we’ve been demanding an investigation into the very gentle slap on the wrist at best that Jeffrey Epstein got from the Department of Justice —

COATES: Hmm.

RASKIN: — and from prosecutors in Florida. I mean, the guy was convicted of one charge of solicitation when he was having sex with all of these underaged girls and running this predatory ring.

He had to sleep in jail but, otherwise, he was free during the daytime. They went in and it has been seen by people. There was a bedroom. There was an office. I mean, it was crazy, the way that he was treated. There cannot be two separate systems of justice, one for the vast majority of American people and another for power elites who know people and can get away with this stuff.

And I think the reason why liberal Democrats are not leading this movement, MAGA Republicans are leading this movement. And the reason they’re leading it is because Donald Trump said for years that they were going to release the files. And now, all of a sudden, he apparently knows what’s in the files, and he doesn’t want to release them anymore.

We know he was close friends with Jeffrey Epstein. Some people have said that they were best friends for a decade. We know that there are lots of photographs of them and video together.

Perhaps that explains it. Perhaps it’s because there are other friends of Donald Trump that are in there. Perhaps he wants to be, you know, using all of this information for purposes of blackmail. I don’t know. But he has done a 180-degree turn from what he said, and he’s the one who has created this entire crisis.

Watch above via CNN’s Laura Coates Live.

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