Washington Examiner Editor-in-Chief Hugo Gurdon said “wrongdoers” and people who were associated with Jeffrey Epstein are “scrambling” to distance themselves from the late convicted sex offender.
“There were names of people [in the files] who had associations, whether that was [The View co-host] Whoopi Goldberg, or whoever, who claim they just had some contact with Jeffrey Epstein, but it was innocent,” Gurdon said on Fox News’s Will Cain Show. “But you also have wrongdoers and everybody, not surprisingly, is scrambling to get away and to distance themselves from Jeffrey Epstein.”
Gurdon’s comments come after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of misconduct in public office, relating to allegations that he shared confidential government information with Epstein during his time as trade envoy.
Gurdon said Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest is “shaking” the British monarchy.
“Obviously, the thing today with the news of former Prince Andrew … is by far the sort of biggest nonsexual scandal, and it does, as one of your guests, [broadcaster] Piers Morgan, was just saying before, it really goes to shaking the British monarchy,” Gurdon said.
Gurdon also said the problem with “transparency” is that the names in the files are getting “all mixed up.”
“There’s a list of names, and there are no differentiations in some cases between those who are victims, and normally one does not want to disclose the names of victims, and those who may be perpetrators, and those who are simply associates,” Gurdon said.
“It’s going to take a fantastic amount of reporting work, and obviously, the Department of Justice has these files. It needs people who know how to look through these things,” Gurdon added.
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Gurdon said he expects the files released by the Justice Department to be “combed through” by everybody.
“These three and a half million documents are going to be combed through by everybody that has an interest to see if it can help their interests. It’ll be combed through by news organizations, which will publish stories … it’s going to be all sorts of different organizations.”
