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(NewsNation) — Television commentator Bill O'Reilly said Wednesday that helium spoke straight with President Donald Trump astir the Jeffrey Epstein case, with Trump expressing interest astir protecting radical who had guiltless connections to the disgraced financier.
During a speech with NewsNation’s “CUOMO,” O'Reilly said helium discussed the Epstein files with Trump "man-to-man, eye-to-eye connected St. Patrick's Day," on with files related to the Kennedy and King assassinations.
"He said, and I agree, determination are a batch of names associated with Epstein that had thing to bash with Epstein's conduct," O'Reilly said. "They possibly had luncheon with him, oregon possibly had immoderate correspondence for 1 happening oregon another. If that sanction gets out, those radical are destroyed, due to the fact that it's not going to beryllium immoderate context."
His comments travel arsenic the Trump administration faces criticism from its ain supporters implicit its handling of the Epstein case. The medication has backtracked connected promises to merchandise broad files astir the case, with officials concluding Epstein died by termination and did not support a “client list.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi initially suggested documents were "sitting connected my desk" for reappraisal but aboriginal clarified she was referring to assorted files related to aggregate cases, not specifically an Epstein “client list.”
The administration's attack has frustrated conspiracy theorists and Trump supporters who had expected large revelations. Conservative commentator Alex Jones criticized the handling arsenic discrediting the FBI, portion Tucker Carlson accused the Department of Justice of covering up crimes.
O'Reilly said the medication could code the contention by having Bondi clasp a property league to explicate what investigators learned astir the lawsuit successful a "methodical way" portion protecting guiltless people's names.
"You can't destruct quality beings by putting retired the files, immoderate they whitethorn be, but you surely tin person Attorney General Bondi say, this is what we know, and you cognize we're going to support the innocent," O'Reilly said.
The commentator besides said that erstwhile Attorney General Merrick Garland, nether President Joe Biden, should bash the presser with Bondi and criticized him for not being much proactive astir addressing the Epstein case.
NewsNation spouse The Hill contributed to this report.
