Everybody is ‘scrambling’ to distance themselves from Epstein: Hugo Gurdon

Published February 20, 2026 11:52am ET



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.”

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