A Department of Justice veteran who says he interviewed Jeffrey Epstein's victims was caught on camera claiming that President Donald Trump is engaged in a coverup to protect the late sex offender's co-conspirators.
Hidden-camera footage released by Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe, who's been accused of releasing deceptively edited videos in the past, appears to capture former DOJ investigator Glenn Prager speaking about the Epstein files during a flight earlier this month from Phoenix to Washington, D.C., reported The Daily Beast.
“I’ve interviewed all the victims,” Prager says in the video. “There’s never been an instance where Trump was on a plane with these kids and the rapes occurred.”
“People want to tie it to [Trump] and say he’s covering up for himself, but he’s not,” Prager adds.
Prager, whose LinkedIn profile states that he has more than 25 years of experience in oversight and investigations for the DOJ, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, claims that Trump is "protecting a lot of people" by refusing to order the release of the Epstein files despite promising to do so during his re-election campaign.
“I don’t know what’s new that I have never seen,” Prager says in the video. “He’s so hesitant to show what’s going on with releasing all his files. I think he’s protecting a lot of other people.”
Trump has long sought to distance himself from the disgraced financier, who died in a Manhattan holding cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on additional sex trafficking charges. The president has attempted to deflect from his possible involvement in Epstein's crime network by calling the investigation a "hoax" – which Prager strongly disputed.
“I mean, come on,” Prager says in the video. “You know it’s not a hoax... He says a lot of stupid stuff. He’s been on the plane, now, many times. It’s just, he was never on the plane with the kids.”
Prager also claims that Epstein will eventually be unmasked as "a CIA informant," which has been the basis of many conspiracy theories about the late financier and philanthropist.
The White House referred The Daily Beast to DOJ when asked to comment, but that agency did not follow up on a statement provided to O'Keefe: “This individual [Glenn Prager] worked at the Department of Justice as a program analyst over 15 years ago. He has no understanding of, or access to, the underlying facts in this investigation. His statements should not be considered accurate. It is disgusting that someone would further exploit victims of sexual abuse by fabricating stories for their personal benefit.”