Bill O’Reilly, a former Fox host, said he had a conversation with President Donald Trump earlier this year about the Jeffrey Epstein files, which the president said could “destroy” innocent people.
On NewsNation’s Cuomo on Wednesday, O’Reilly said he had spoken with Trump “man to man, eye to eye” about the Epstein files on St. Patrick’s Day.
“He said, and I agree, there are a lot of names associated with Epstein that had nothing to do with Epstein’s conduct,” O’Reilly said in the interview.
“They maybe had lunch with him or maybe had some correspondence for one thing or another,” he added. “If that name gets out, those people are destroyed because there’s not going to be any context.”
Newsweek has contacted the White House for comment via an email sent outside regular business hours.
The Trump administration is facing mounting criticism from conservatives over the Justice Department’s decision not to release additional documents from the Epstein sex trafficking investigation.
The department said in a two-page memo on Monday that Epstein did not maintain a “client list” and had died by suicide. The memo said that no more files related to the investigation would be made public after a monthslong review of evidence in the government’s possession.
As Trump had suggested while campaigning for the White House that he would release documents related to the Epstein case, the DOJ’s announcement may deepen fissures between the president and his MAGA supporters.
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