Tucker Carlson Claims Jeffrey Epstein Was Working for Israel to Blackmail American Politicians
Tucker Carlson accused deceased child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein of working on behalf of Israeli intelligence as part of an extensive blackmail operation in the U.S.
On Friday night, the former Fox News host spoke at a Turning Point USA summit in Tampa, where he addressed the week’s biggest news topic. The Department of Justice concluded that Epstein did not have the long-rumored client list of powerful figures that many believed he had. Additionally, the DOJ reiterated its conclusion that Epstein committed suicide in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019.
Those findings landed with a thud among President Donald Trump’s supporters, who had hoped the president would facilitate the release of all materials related to Epstein. Trump could, if he were so inclined, but his supporters have instead blamed Attorney General Pam Bondi for the fiasco.
Carlson took to the stage on Friday and slammed those who defended the administration’s conclusions. At one point, he even alleged Epstein worked for the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service.
“The real question is, why was he doing this, on whose behalf, and where did the money come from?” Carlson asked the audience. “And those are the questions that need to be answered. And I think it’s entirely fair to ask them.”
Carlson then offered his theory of the case:
And I think the real answer is Jeffrey Epstein was working on behalf of intel services, probably not American. And we have every right to ask, on whose behalf was he working? How does a guy go from being a math teacher at the Dalton School in thelate 70s with no college degree to having multiple airplanes, a private island, and the largest residential house in Manhattan? Where did all the money come from? And no one has ever gotten to the bottom of that because no one has ever tried. And moreover, it’s extremely obvious to anyone who watches, that this guy had direct connections to a foreign government.
Now, no one’s allowed to say that the foreign government is Israel because we have been somehow cowed into thinking that’s naughty. [cheers] There is nothing wrong with saying that. There is nothing hateful about saying that. There’s nothing anti-Semitic about saying that. There’s nothing even anti-Israel about saying that…
And you have the right to expect your government will not act against your interests, and you have a right to demand that foreign governments not be allowed to act against your interests. [cheers] That’s not creepy. It shouldn’t be forbidden. And yet all of us have trained ourselves to believe that you can’t say that somehow. That that’s like too naughty and forbidden. And the effect of making that off-limits has been to create a lot of resentment and I’ll say it, hate online, where people feel like they can’t just say, “What the hell is this? You have the former Israeli prime minister living in your house? You have all this contact with a foreign government. Were you working on behalf of them? Were you running a blackmail operation on behalf of a foreign government?
By the way, every single person in Washington, D.C. thinks that. I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t think that. I don’t know any of them that hate Israel. But no one feels they can say that. Why? And I think the longer we play along with it, the more subterranean and creepy and hateful the conversation becomes. So, I think it’s better just to say it right out loud.
Elsewhere at the summit, Fox News host Laura Ingraham took an impromptu poll of the crowd and asked if they were “satisfied” with the administration’s handling of the Epstein case.
Watch above via C-SPAN.
