Fox News Regular Suggests Trump Is Protecting People Named in the Epstein List: ‘Something Has Changed’

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Fox News regular guest Victor Davis Hanson suggested on Wednesday that President Donald Trump was protecting people named in the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s list after being pressured not to release the Epstein files.

During an interview with Hanson on Wednesday, The Blaze founder Glenn Beck criticized the Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein files.

“This was just handled so poorly,” said Beck. “And the president doesn’t seem to understand that there are a lot of people who really support him that are like, ‘Wait, I’m with you, I just want to know for sure that we are actually doing everything that we can to root out the deep state and that people, they do go to jail if they did wrong.'”

After Beck asked Hanson why Epstein’s alleged elite blackmail operation wasn’t “being exposed,” Hanson replied:

I think there are people in the establishment– I don’t know if they partook in his sick things he was doing, but they fear– they have some association with him and they gave him money to invest when there was no reason to hire someone like that. There were much better financial gurus but he got half a billion dollars somehow from people who were mainstream establishmentarians on the basis that he was going to blackmail them.

I think that’s how he made his money, and I think those names are numerous, and I think the Trump administration thought, “Well, we’re gonna release this and there’s some crazy people that we don’t care about are gonna be embarrassed.” Then all of a sudden, they got a lot of calls and said, “Why are you doing this? I didn’t do this. I went down the island once, I was on a plane, I didn’t touch anybody, and now you’re gonna release my name.”

He continued, “I think that’s what’s happened. There’s a lot of people that were very powerful who were giving him money or were trafficking with him, not necessarily all of them engaging in what he was doing, but just the association with him, and I think they’re putting pressure on people. I really do.”

Noting the Trump administration’s pivot from supporting the release of the Epstein files to trying to shut the entire case down, Hanson observed, “Something has changed in their attitude once they got into the data, the material, and the conspiracists say, ‘Well, you know, there’s officials involved.’ I don’t know if it’s that, I think it’s more maybe the donor class or people across the political spectrum who are very powerful, influential, and some of them were very terrified of Jeffrey Epstein.”

He added, “So something has happened in the administration’s attitude from February until now and I think they would say, ‘Well, we went in there and there’s a bunch of lurid pictures and we don’t want to release that and he didn’t get murdered or anything, we’re pretty clear on that, so it’s kind of ancient history,’ and I think the people on the right, the conservatives say, ‘Well, just tell us. Is there a list and who was on it? And we’ll make our own conjectures.'”

Hanson then warned the Trump administration that they would never be able to stop Americans from wanting answers on the case.

“I think eventually it’s gonna– I don’t think they can stop it,” he concluded. “I think there’s too many people that want to know.”

After the Trump administration concluded that Epstein had no “client list,” that there was no evidence the sex offender was blackmailing “prominent individuals,” and that there was no sign Epstein was murdered in his prison cell, President Trump shut down a reporter for asking about the case this week.

“Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?” Trump snapped. “We have Texas, we have this all of the things. Are people still talking about this guy, this creep? That is unbelievable!”