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(NewsNation) — Conspiracies that disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was an intelligence agent have gained momentum after the Department of Justice and FBI released a memo this month stating no more evidence related to the case would be released to the public.
The fallout from the announcement has driven a wedge into President Donald Trump’s supporters, who are demanding that more details be released.
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Additionally, MAGA influencers like Tucker Carlson are saying that the former financier was working as an asset for the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad.
Carlson said at the Turning Point USA conference, “It’s extremely obvious to anyone who watches that this guy had direct connections to a foreign government. Now, no one’s allowed to say that foreign government is Israel.”
The former Fox News anchor added, “Were you working on behalf of Mossad? Were you running a blackmail operation on behalf of foreign government?”
Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett responded to Carlson’s theory on Monday, writing on X, “The accusation that Jeffrey Epstein somehow worked for Israel or the Mossad running a blackmail ring is categorically and totally false. Epstein’s conduct, both the criminal and the merely despicable, had nothing whatsoever to do with the Mossad or the State of Israel. Epstein never worked for the Mossad. This accusation is a lie being peddled by prominent online personalities such as Tucker Carlson pretending, they know things they don’t. They just make things up, say it with confidence and these lies stick, because it’s Israel.”
During the same conference, Charlie Kirk, co-founder of Turning Point USA, asked Megyn Kelly what she thought of the theory that Epstein was working for Mossad.
Kelly replied, “I wouldn’t be surprised one bit. I am convinced based on my own sources and my own reporting on this story. He wasn’t one of ours.”
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Kelly hypothesized that Epstein would be an asset for Massod, pointing to his former partner Ghislaine Maxwell’s ties to the group. Both Kirk and Kelly said they have no evidence to support the theory.
Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison term for aiding in the sex trafficking of minors with Epstein. She is in contact with the Department of Justice and was subpoenaed by a House Committee in relation to a push to release more Epstein documents.
Ghislaine Maxwell attends the WIE Symposium at Center 548 on Sept. 20, 2013, in New York City. (Photo by Laura Cavanaugh/Getty Images)
Alexander Acosta told to ‘back off’ of Epstein investigation in 2007
Former Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, who was once a U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida and negotiated a 2008 plea deal with Epstein, resigned from the Trump cabinet in July 2019 in the wake of the fallout he faced for his handling of the Epstein case which resulted in the child sex trafficker getting a 2008 plea deal.
Acosta said he was instructed to handle Epstein gently in 2007. He said that he was told to “back off” Epstein, and it was hinted that the multimillionaire was of some vitalness to another case.
At the time, Trump said, “I feel very badly, actually, for Secretary Acosta because I’ve known him as being somebody that works so hard and has done such a good job. There were a lot of people involved in that decision (Epstein’s plea deal), not just him.”
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In 2020, the Department of Justice found that Acosta used “poor judgement” by reaching a non-prosecutorial agreement with Epstein.
United States Attorney General Pam Bondi responded to an inquiry from a reporter during a press conference this month, asking if Epstein was an asset for Mossad.
Bondi said, “To him being an agent, I have no knowledge about that. We can get back to you on that.”
