MS NOW's Joe Scarborough slammed Republican lawmakers on Thursday for their ongoing obfuscation of President Donald Trump's involvement with the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case — an issue laid clearer by their absence from this week's deposition of Epstein-linked billionaire Les Wexner.
"The Republican members of that committee, not even turning up to the deposition," noted panelist and British journalist Katty Kay.
"Didn't turn up for the deposition, and I'm so glad you brought that up," said Scarborough. "Could it be that it's because he gave $250,000 to the Republican National Committee in October? Could it be that there's an Ohio senator that's going to be running for re-election or for election this year, an Ohio senator that got $100,000 in campaign contributions from Les Wexner over his career? And he voted on the Senate floor to suppress the Epstein files and not release them?"
What all this demonstrates, Scarborough continued, is that "it's not rich and powerful people" getting a pass on Epstein — "the Trump administration's protecting its rich and powerful Republicans."
"And to draw a line under what Katty said about how outrageous it is that [Oversight Chair James] Comer, who's calling Bill Clinton to testify but not Donald Trump," said Scarborough. "Let's look at the mentions in the Epstein files and you tell me if that makes sense. Also, does it make sense to be calling former presidents? Donald Trump doesn't think so, because he knows when he's a former president, that will happen to him. But think about that ... They're calling Bill Clinton, but they're not calling, they're not calling Donald Trump. It's absolutely extraordinary."
Regarding Wexner, he continued, "this is a guy The New York Times profiled in 2019. And in 2019, they had they talked about how everybody around Wexner had no idea how this guy who launched Victoria's Secret and all these other brands had this unknown guy coming in, taking, taking control of his money, taking control of of large swaths of his life. I mean, Les Wexner created Jeffrey Epstein, and yet no Republicans showed up yesterday at the hearing to ask about Les Wexner. And all he said was, oh, he had these bland denials that nobody believes."
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