The American Jewish Committee issued a statement on Tuesday condemning the recent speculation by far-right influencers Charlie Kirk and Megyn Kelly at a Turning Point USA gathering that deceased financier and child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein could have been a secret agent for the Israeli government.
"I am convinced, based on my own sources and my reporting on this story, that he wasn't one of ours," Kelly, a former Fox News and NBC journalist, said in the exchange.
When Kirk, a right-wing youth organizer who helped run Donald Trump's voter outreach in 2024, asked her if she thought he was "MI6, Saudi, or Mossad," she replied, "I guess Mossad, given his connection to Ghislaine Maxwell?" "I mean, it's possible that that's the reason everything's getting buried, there is some treasure trove, and it's getting buried."
AJC denounced this conspiracy theory in a statement posted to X.
"Charlie Kirk and Megyn Kelly floated the baseless conspiracy theory that Jeffrey Epstein was a Mossad agent — and admitted they had no evidence," said the statement. "That doesn’t matter, because what people will remember is the lie. This isn’t just irresponsible. It’s a textbook example of how right-wing antisemitism spreads: through conspiracies dressed up as innocent speculation."
"They gave oxygen to an age-old trope of Jewish control — and in today’s climate, that’s not just offensive. It’s dangerous," the statement added.
Trump and the Justice Department have faced days of fury from MAGA supporters after their lengthy re-examination of the Epstein case — a longtime source of conspiracy theories that Attorney General Pam Bondi promised would yield new information — ended with the conclusion that Epstein did kill himself and had no "client list" of unknown co-conspirators.
