Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly is slamming a new report from House Judiciary Committee Democrats on the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. He called the document “a bunch of bull” and said it fails to expose any “legitimate corruption.”
The report was written by Democrats on the committee and released just over a week before Election Day. It alleges that five of the 11 women it links to President Trump through Epstein accused the president of rape or sexual assault in Epstein’s company or presence.
O’Reilly made no secret of his contempt for the document.
“No, I didn’t read it. It’s a bunch of bull and nobody would print it,” O’Reilly said, later adding, “This is a bunch of crap.”
The veteran broadcaster also took aim at Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, for urging the public to read the report.
The report carries the title “‘We Have Certain Things in Common, Jeffrey’: The Case Against Donald Trump Emerging in the Epstein Files and DOJ’s Desperate Efforts to Cover it Up.” According to Judiciary Democrats, it draws on interviews with committee staff, survivor accounts, FBI records and documents released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
The committee itself concedes that it has not independently verified at least one of the allegations against Trump. Raskin has called on the Justice Department to appoint an independent special counsel to look into the claims.
The Democratic report directly contradicts the findings of Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Their 136-page report found that Trump was not implicated in Epstein’s trafficking of young women and girls. Instead, it pinned the blame on repeated failures by law enforcement and federal prosecutors to stop the disgraced financier.
“The crimes committed by Epstein after 2005 could have been prevented and justice served had it not been for the repeated failures of law enforcement and federal prosecutors,” the Oversight Committee wrote.
Republicans traced those failures to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami, which handed Epstein an extremely lenient plea deal in 2008 that allowed his abuse to continue. The GOP report also blasted Democrats’ focus on Trump’s past ties to Epstein as an “unfounded witch hunt.”
Trump has long denied any wrongdoing connected to Epstein.
This isn’t the first time O’Reilly has accused Democrats of using the Epstein saga as a political weapon. Earlier this year, he defended Attorney General Pam Bondi after her combative appearance before the House Judiciary Committee.
“It’s obvious the Democratic Party wants to link Donald Trump to some kind of crime involving Epstein,” O’Reilly said at the time. “They’re never going to stop doing that.”
O’Reilly has also said the public wants accountability for the rich and powerful, but he has insisted that claims need to be backed up by real proof.
“Unless there’s real hard evidence, I don’t want to hear it. I don’t want to hear innuendo,” he said in an earlier interview.
Epstein died in federal custody in 2019. His longtime confidant Ghislaine Maxwell is still the only person convicted of sex trafficking minors in connection with the case. She is serving a 20-year prison sentence.
The dueling reports set up what is likely to be a continued fight on Capitol Hill as Democrats prepare to take control of the House in January.
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