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Tucker Carlson: “Bill Barr participated in the cover-up.”

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Tucker Carlson Discusses Jeffrey Epstein's Connections and Cover-Ups

Published July 18, 2025 | Video Starts at 2:34:26

Yeah, the, the guards who fell asleep were not really punished. They lied about the tape. And most damning of all, Bill Barr participated in the cover-up. COVID up. I mean, flat out. You can read his memoir and in it he says, as soon as this happened, I, you know, my first concern was people would think he was murdered. (2:34:26–2:34:33)

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“The Attorney General of the United States who arrested Jeffrey Epstein, oversaw his death, declared his death a suicide before the…”
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“He gives Jeffrey Epstein power of attorney over everything.”
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“Les Wexner gave [Jeffrey Epstein] a seventy million dollar house.”
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“Leon Black gave [Jeffrey Epstein] over a hundred million dollars.”
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“The Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice has never released the names of the inmates who were in the lockup with [Jeffrey Epstein].”
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“Bill Barr as Attorney General helped cover up Epstein's death.”
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“He declared it a suicide before they'd finished the investigation or even really began the investigation.”
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“I believe that [Alexander Acosta] has been asked about this and that has not denied it, and that his response was. That's true, but I don't…”
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“Apparently the former labor secretary saying, former U.S. attorney, federal prosecutor, saying [Epstein] belonged to intelligence.”
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“The purpose of all questions that I've ever raised about Epstein, go back to one central question, which is who runs the world?”
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“There are only like four families that control the world so far. We have the Bushes, the Bars, the Khashoggi.”
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“Adan Khashoggi was one of the most famous people in the world. I mean, he was in, you know, the New York Times and the National Enquirer and…”
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“I have a feeling if you were accused of being a mass pedophile, there would be more. There'd be more media interest in it.”
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“Then he [Jeffrey Epstein] starts to a meeting at the Pentagon, presumably about arm sales.”
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“We assume it's because he [Jeffrey Epstein] was set up by one of his clients at Bear Stearns, from which he was fired.”
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“In a job that he [Jeffrey Epstein] was apparently set up by Donald Barr to get.”
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“There's a connection between Jeffrey Epstein and Iran Contra.”
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“No one was ever really punished for [Iran Contra].”
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“Fighting the British. And he's now British citizen.”
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“There was a satellite photo. I don't know if it was ever introduced in court, but I, I believe this is true.”
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“I think he received a state funeral in Israel. He certainly buried there.”
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“Where did all the money come from? How did [Jeffrey Epstein] get rich?”
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“The biggest magazine publisher in the country at the time, most important, published the New Yorker.”
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“Vanity Fair at the time was like basically the in house publication for the ruling class.”
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“Les Wexner, who I believe is still alive, has never been interviewed by the Department of Justice.”
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“I'm shocked to learn, and I am learning this, that Jeffrey. You're positive Jeffrey Epstein had power of attorney?”
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“No one's ever asked Les Wexner, why did you sign over power of attorney over your whole life and give, among other things, a seventy million…”
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“It's hard to manage money in a country whose financial systems are as regulated as ours are anonymously.”
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“Is there any documentary evidence that Jeffrey Epstein was in any recognizable sense of money manager?”
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“You know, people didn't actually invest people's money.”
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“And there's no record of anything?”
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“Him investing money, trading stocks, Nothing.”
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“So once again, where'd the money come from? Well, clearly, some of it came from Les Wexner.”
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“But it doesn't explain motive, it doesn't explain why Wexner would give him all of this at the very, very young age, with no relevant…”
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“This guy wind up as Labor Secretary.”
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“Okay, so it sounds like they intentionally didn't gather a lot of evidence.”
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“There's this huge controversy over why isn't the DOJ releasing all this information.”
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“My informed understanding is at least in to some extent, because they don't have it.”
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“The feds basically protecting Jeffrey Epstein in 2007.”
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“That's the Bush administration and it clearly this is a very high profile thing.”
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“Acosta is a U.S. Attorney. He's the federal prosecutor in southern district of Florida.”
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“There's clearly a cover up at the very beginning.”
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“One of the reasons we don't have this information now is because DOJ doesn't have the [information].”
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“Acosta, apparently Alex Acosta has said, and this is different from what I described, that he never said that Epstein was, was connected to…”
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“Epstein...did not see [Americans] as fully human.”
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“Tony Podesta is the brother of the Former White House Chief of staff, two time chief of staff John Podesta.”
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“Tony Podesta is the most powerful Democratic lobbyist in Washington.”
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“The acceptance of violence against civilians, I've only started to realize since I left, it's been five years.”
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“They have a total acceptance of killing people.”
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“Epstein gets out of his fake jail sentence in the county jail.”
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“He's just spending the night, you know, six days a week.”
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“Has anyone ever been punished for that?”
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“Epstein gets out of jail in 2008. Ish 9. And then between then and 2019, so 10 or 11 years, he's like roaming around. We have a. Records of…”
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“Post conviction, post public humiliation.”
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“[Jeffrey Epstein] was supposedly in the cell by himself, but there were 11, I think in that range, other inmates in the cell block.”
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“We know that a bunch [of inmates] were transferred out shortly after [Epstein's death].”
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“The guards who fell asleep were not really punished.”
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“There is no democratic control in the United States.”
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“The population's views don't really matter.”
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“A force bigger than the US Government [exists].”
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“It's about our government. They're the ones who covered up the freaking crimes in 2007.”
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