The woman who allegedly obtained a video of ABC News’ Amy Robach admitting that her network spiked her story about a Jeffrey Epstein accuser spoke out on Friday.
On Tuesday, Project Veritas released a video of Amy Robach discussing the information she received years earlier from Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre on a hot mic. The reporter can be heard expressing her frustration surrounding ABC News’s refusal to air the interview and claimed that the network made the decision after receiving threats from Buckingham Palace after they had found out Prince Andrew was implicated in the story.
She also alleged that Epstein, the convicted sex offender who was found dead in his jail cell in August, may have been murdered, which has been a frequent conspiracy theory since his death.
“It was unbelievable what we had. Clinton, we had everything,” Robach was caught saying. “I tried for three years to get it on to no avail. And now it’s all coming out, and it’s like these new revelations, and I freaking had all of it.”
The woman who obtained the video, Ashley Bianco, 25, was a former producer for Good Morning America. She had left that position prior to getting the video and was an Emmy-winning producer for CBS This Morning, but CBS News fired her after ABC News was able to confirm that she was the person who accessed the video.
In an interview with Megyn Kelly, she said, “[Project Veritas] released the video, you know, and I was shocked. But I didn’t think anything of it.” She later added that she had only been at CBS News for four days before getting fired by the network.
“I begged, I pleaded. I didn’t know what I had done wrong, and I just I wasn’t even given the professional courtesy to defend myself. I didn’t know what I had been accused of. It was humiliating. It was devastating,” Bianco said.
The former ABC staffer who allegedly leaked the hot mic Amy Robach tape sits down with me in an exclusive — here’s a preview — we’ll be posting the full exchange shortly at https://t.co/A53IqETTDd. Stay tuned! pic.twitter.com/WgvUFgCnBX
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) November 8, 2019
Robach walked back the comments she made in the video through a statement released earlier this week, claiming that those remarks were “caught in a private moment of frustration” and that her interview with Giuffre “didn’t air because we could not obtain sufficient corroborating evidence to meet ABC’s editorial standards.”
The network’s statement made the same claim as Robach: “Not all of our reporting met our standards to air.”
