After a weekend insinuation that Russia had something to do with millionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s death, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough brought up lack of oversight by President Trump and Attorney General William Barr on his show Monday morning.
Epstein, 66, was found dead Saturday in what officials described as an apparent suicide. Given his powerful stature and ties to wealthy politicians, conspiracy theorists seized on the moment with some accusing the Clinton family of being involved and others blaming Trump. Scarborough Monday compared the financier’s death to a mafia hit and then placed some of the blame on Trump and Barr.
“This is what we did see in mob cases,” Scarborough said. “It makes no sense. There’s no way that the Justice Department should have left this man sitting in that jail cell by himself and there is no explanation that the attorney general, there’s no explanation the Bureau of Prisons can give.
“There’s no explanation that anyone can give to explain why he was and whether that launches a million conspiracy theories or not, this attorney general and this president have a lot to answer for,” he added.
Scarborough also drew comparisons to Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who the United States arrested in 2003 and is still holding in detention. He wondered how the government had the ability to keep Mohammed alive but not Epstein.
“You’re talking about a man who had information on some of the most powerful people in this country over the past quarter-century and you can’t keep him alive?” Scarborough asked. “I mean, the attorney general should have bent over backwards given Donald Trump’s own past with Jeffrey Epstein.”
Scarborough’s first reaction to Epstein’s death was to pin it on an unfounded Russian conspiracy. He wrote on Twitter, “A guy who had information that would have destroyed rich and powerful men’s lives ends up dead in his jail cell. How predictably…Russian.”
He reportedly tried to kill himself two weeks ago. And is allowed to finish the job now? Bullshit.
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) August 10, 2019
Trump reacted by retweeting a conspiracy theory linking the death to Bill Clinton.
Died of SUICIDE on 24/7 SUICIDE WATCH ? Yeah right! How does that happen#JefferyEpstein had information on Bill Clinton & now he’s dead
I see #TrumpBodyCount trending but we know who did this!
RT if you’re not Surprised#EpsteinSuicide #ClintonBodyCount #ClintonCrimeFamily pic.twitter.com/Y9tGAWaAxX
— Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) August 10, 2019
