Former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker said that “something doesn’t add up,” in regards to the death of alleged child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Whitaker was on Fox & Friends Monday morning only days after the Epstein, 66, was found unconscious in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center and later pronounced dead.
“I was really surprised to see that some of these protocols and procedures, the 30-minute check and the like were not followed,” Whitaker stated. “I think there are serious questions that are raised here. Once we hear the whole answer, I think we’ll have a lot better picture but there’s no doubt — reason and common sense would suggest that someone should have been checking on him based on what had happened several weeks before.”
Whitaker also pointed out that the prison that housed Epstein also housed El Chapo, the notorious Mexican drug lord, without incident.
“If you don’t give all of the facts and essentially a line by line as to what we looked into, what we talked to, what we found, what we saw, what was violated, if anything, and the who, what, just like the facts, then the confidence won’t be there. So we need like ultimate transparency in this case,” he added. “So I was surprised to see that they can hold him basically without incident and then have Epstein twice. Once an alleged failed attempt at suicide and now a successful attempted. Something, I think, the question surroundings this, something doesn’t add up.”
Dr. Barbara Sampson, New York City’s chief medical examiner, released a statement on Sunday saying that the cause of death was not determined yet and is “pending further information.”
