One former Republican U.S. Senate staffer is arguing that President Donald Trump’s administration is plainly executing a “cover-up” of unreleased Jeffrey Epstein evidence in plain sight.
During a Thursday segment on MSNBC’s “The Weeknight,” Amanda Carpenter — who was a communications staffer to Sens. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) — said that “two facts” proved that both Trump and senior administration officials were scrambling to prevent the public from learning damning new information about the president and his former friend. MSNBC host Michael Steele began the interview with Carpenter by opining that none of Trump’s actions toward chief Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell were done out a sense of duty to provide justice for their victims, but because he saw it as a “political problem.”
“I think the victims see this extremely clearly. It is a cover-up. Donald Trump came into office. He saw his name in the files, and now it’s being covered up,” she said. “… It’s very clear to understand what’s going on here. And so it’s not just Donald Trump doing it. As you noted, it’s the Department of Justice. It’s Republicans in Congress. This is a system-wide cover-up.”
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“Because we know two facts: They promised to declassify the files. They saw Trump’s name in the files. And now they don’t want to release the files,” she added.
Carpenter went on to state that the two people who have the most information about Epstein have so far been treated with kid gloves by the Trump administration. This includes Maxwell — who was recently transferred to a minimum-security prison camp in Bryan, Texas — and former Trump Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, who was the U.S. Attorney who negotiated the controversial 2008 plea agreement with Epstein that allowed him to avoid federal charges. The GOP-controlled House Oversight Committee notably left Acosta off of their list of Epstein-related subpoenas earlier this week.
“Nobody wants to talk to [Acosta],” Carpenter observed. “And so, like, how can you not see this for anything other than it is a cover-up?”
“We know so many unsolved, unseemly details about this. We know what Epstein did. We know Ghislaine Maxwell’s involvement in it. We know that Trump was close to Epstein for many years and wrote him really creepy, affectionate letters,” she continued. “So what is worse than the known facts that they’re covering up? I think that’s where the heart of this is and why there’s all these strategy meetings at the White House with the very officials involved in this right now.”
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