House Republican’s Feed Drops While Live On CNN: ‘I Was Gonna Ask Him About Jeffrey Epstein’
CNN’s Kasie Hunt had an interview with Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) cut off before she got a chance to ask about child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein and the “apparent preferential treatment” his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell is receiving in prison.
Burchett joined Hunt on The Arena on Tuesday, where an apparent technical issue cut him short as he was blasting “greedy politicians.”
“The real problem, ma’am, is the politicians are greedy and they’re selling this country down the road,” Burchett told Hunt.
“Yourself included?” the CNN anchor asked.
“Well, they’re sellin’ us all down the road. I don’t, I don’t go with them, but you don’t see me —” Burchett continued as Hunt jumped back in.
“But you’re a politician,” she said.
“Well, heck yeah, I am, and you’re in the media, so we’re both hated,” Burchett said.
The congressman continued his rant against lobbyists and politicians chasing a “five-dollar bill down the hallway” when his feed was cut short.
“Well, it looks like we lost this politician,” Hunt said. “I was going to ask him about Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s apparent preferential treatment. We’re not going to have a chance to do that now, hopefully next time.”
President Donald Trump has faced bipartisan calls for more documents related to Epstein’s case to be released to the public. Epstein, a former friend of Trump’s, was a convicted child sex predator who died of an apparent suicide in 2019 while facing sex trafficking charges. Trump’s Department of Justice concluded earlier this year that Epstein committed suicide and that he was not sex trafficking women for high-profile friends and clients, despite victims saying otherwise. Even Burchett said he did not trust Trump’s DOJ on the matter.
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee claimed this week that Maxwell is waited on “hand and foot” at a minimum security prison in Texas, where she was transferred after meetings with Trump DOJ officials.
Watch above via CNN.
