Joe Scarborough Roasts MAGA Pundits’ Sudden Epstein Flip After ‘Decade-Long Crusade’: ‘What Happened in 24 Hours?’

Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough laughed out loud as he roasted MAGA pundits for their collective and sudden flip on the Jeffrey Epstein files after a “decade-long crusade,” only to drop their fury at President Donald Trump’s recent handling of the case “overnight.”

The jesting came after high-profile Trump loyalists who raged and feuded with the administration over a Justice Department memo published in July, which concluded the convicted pedophile killed himself and his blackmail “client list” was non-existent, were now falling in line with the president’s suggestion to move on.

On Tuesday morning, host Mika Brzezinski highlighted how one vocal critic, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, had announced Monday that he would be opting to “trust” the administration’s conclusion on Epstein and vowed he was “done with the matter.”

Brzezinski and Scarborough jibed at Kirk for “leading the charge” and having been “really upset” at the memo.

“Children were molested and raped and the truth had to come out,” Scarborough said.

“Over 200. Maybe 250, according to [Attorney General] Pam Bondi,” Brzezinski added.

The Morning Joe crew played back clips of Kirk and Fox News host Laura Ingraham from the weekend’s Turning Point USA conference rallying the crowds on Epstein. After rolling back Kirk’s announcement that he’d stop with Epstein coverage, Scarborough repeated his words and laughed.

At the point he launched into a mocking tirade, skewering the sudden change and blasting “podcasters” who previously demanded accountability and transparency on Epstein that changed their tune:

Sometimes you change your mind and you see some facts, the facts change. You change your mind with those facts. That happens.

But I must say, very rarely have I ever seen people going from a decade-long crusade against pedophilia, against sex abuse, against child exploitation – and making that almost a centerpiece of their existence – saying: ‘When we get in power, we’re going to release the Epstein files. When we get in power, we’re going to be different. When we get in, we’re not going to do what Joe Biden and his Attorney General Merrick Garland did. We’re going to expose it all.’

And you go on your podcasts, and you go on your podcasts, and you go on your podcasts, and you keep repeating that over and over again. Or you go on Fox News or you go on any of these other channels and you say, ‘We’re going to do this.’

And then you have a weekend conference in Florida where everybody’s enraged. What Charlie Kirk said – 7500 people outraged by this. The truth must come out! And then the next day, magic pixie dust is sprinkled over all of the podcasters, and voila!

This moral crisis of a decade long about little children getting raped by the richest and the most powerful men in the world goes away!

They say ‘I don’t need the flight logs. I don’t need the flight logs. We don’t need the list. All the things that we’ve said before. Everything we’ve said over the past decade about Hollywood stars and lefties and Democratic politicians – never mind, never mind. Done with it.’

Scarborough wasn’t done, adding that he too was asking “good questions” about Epstein’s “sweetheart deal” back in 2017 – “before most of these people were” – he rounded again on podcasters who had built careers on peddling conspiracy theories:

Overnight, suddenly they go from a decade of rage to saying ‘I’m going to trust the government. I know what I said about the JFK conspiracy theories. I know what I said about the Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theories. I know what I said about the JFK Jr. conspiracy theories. I know what I said about the 9/11… but here – here, I’m going to just trust the government.’

Okay. That’s really something because we’ve got a decade of quotes—you saying never trust the government. We’ve got a decade of quotes saying never trust a Justice Department that’s not releasing all the information about Jeffrey Epstein. Never trust people who are protecting the richest among us.

Adding that some legal experts had agreed with the DOJ’s final memo assessment, the host raged at how, even after the Trump administration took power, those involved continued to tease Epstein transparency before dropping July’s memo:

And then they go to the White House and they’re holding up these files – the Epstein files – you know, inside there were like Bazooka Joe cartoons. Like, it was absolutely crazy. And then the attorney general gets on TV: ‘This is the worst thing I’ve ever seen in my life. You… that’s disgusting what these people did, and we’re going to release it all.’

“What happened? I don’t understand. What happened in 24 hours?” he asked.

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