Megyn Kelly stuns guest with astonishing claim on Trump's secret role in Epstein 'cover-up'

Daily Mail​

3 days ago

Megyn Kelly has suggested that Donald Trump may have 'blessed' a cover-up of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
While the podcaster stopped short of directly accusing Trump of wrongdoing, she openly questioned his defense of Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel - both of whom had previously pledged that explosive names and evidence tied to Epstein would be released.
Kelly said: 'There is something there, and it's being covered up, and the president blessed it,' she suggested during Monday's episode of The Megyn Kelly Show.
'I didn't say, "There's a child sex ring that he's actively covering up"… but I think there's some middle ground.'
In a pivot from her previous public defenses of the president, her declaration stunned her guest, conservative commentator and host Ben Shapiro, whose eyebrows visibly rose in surprise.
Her statement comes amid a widening rift within the pro-Trump conservative movement, which has been roiled by unfulfilled promises of explosive revelations relating to Epstein's notorious sex trafficking network.
Many of Trump's loyalists including high-profile voices like Laura Loomer, Steve Bannon and Elon Musk have accused the administration of hiding critical information.
Many of Trump's loyalists including high-profile voices like Laura Loomer, Steve Bannon and Elon Musk have accused the administration of hiding critical information
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Over the weekend Trump took to his Truth Social platform to plead with his followers to 'move on' - but Kelly is refusing to let it go.
'Many people, including me, do not believe that they've released everything that's releasable in Epstein,' she said.
'I think this is another piece of the problem, that we're left asking, why.'
She referenced Mike Davis, a conservative legal analyst and frequent administration ally, who floated the idea that grand jury materials or sealed victim testimony might be legally withheld.
'That's all possible,' Kelly said, 'but Pam Bondi hasn't answered any of those questions. No one has. No one's explained that. Mike Davis, much as we love him, is not a spokesperson for the administration.'
'So we're still left in a position where at least I don't believe that everything that can be released has been released.'
Last week the Justice Department issued a memo insisting there was no Epstein 'client list,' no evidence of murder, and attempt to end curiosity by concluding there's nothing more to release.
The agency, helmed by Bondi and the FBI headed by Patel, two longtime Trump loyalists, declared the case closed.
But the closing of the case has not quelled the outrage with Trump supporters responding with disbelief, calling the administration's handling of the files a betrayal.
Reports emerged both FBI Director Kash Patel (right) and Dan Bongino (left) were considering stepping down over the review of the files – but it appears the weekend has cooled things off
Trump-appointed FBI deputy Dan Bongino reportedly threatened to resign over the matter.
Kelly leaned into that tension on Monday's show, alleging internal divisions while citing her own sources.
'Over the weekend, I will say, my own sources said there had been a softening, because the president got involved in some way,' she told Shapiro. 'And as of today… Bongino has not resigned, but we don't know exactly where it stands.'
She accused Bondi of orchestrating press leaks to discredit Bongino.
'She's clearly fighting back too,' Kelly said. 'She's dropped – obviously this is my supposition – some hit pieces on him in various places, including Axios saying he's just having a hissy fit because he was behind the minute before midnight.'
The 'minute before midnight' refers to a redacted moment missing from prison surveillance tapes near Epstein's cell - a key detail that has further fueled conspiracy theories.
'That's missing in the Epstein tapes from that cell block, which don't show his cell, but show an area near his cell,' Kelly explained.
'And that he was caught embarrassed because he didn't highlight that minute before midnight that was missing, but it soon came out, and now he's scrambling to sort of look like he's been tougher on this issue than he actually has been.'
She also implied that Bondi, once hailed as the MAGA movement's truth-teller on Epstein, may have overpromised - or worse.
'Either Pam Bondi [has] royally screwed up… and the president is just forgiving her because she's a loyal soldier and he likes her, and he doesn't want to go through the messy confirmation process of getting somebody else in there,' Kelly speculated, 'or there is something there, and it's being covered up, and the president blessed it.
'Or there is something there… and it's something short of there's a massive pedophile ring that they're covering up, but it would have some names, those men would have to defend themselves. Maybe the administration doesn't think it's a fair position to put them in.
'Maybe there are questions about the accusers,' Kelly pondered. 'Maybe they're like half-hearted allegations… that a DOJ would not put out, but feels like it kind of might have to given all the promises Pam and prior to taking office, Kash and Dan, rattling about this.
'So I think there could be a middle ground.'
Kelly emphasized that she wasn't suggesting Trump was involved in Epstein's crimes, but rather that the administration may be concealing information to protect reputations including its own.
'Maybe the administration doesn't think it's a fair position to put [these men] in,' she said. 'It would have some names, those men would have to defend themselves.'
In another explosive aside, Kelly floated a conspiratorial twist, not implicating Trump, but rather suggesting that the Biden administration had deliberately left the files in a way that might politically damage him.
'This may be complete bulls***, but I've heard it from a few different people, so just big asterisks on it,' she cautioned. 'But some have speculated that the Biden DOJ may have left the Epstein files in such a manner that it like leads directly with an arrow toward Donald Trump, just as a middle finger toward Trump.
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'Not that he did anything whatsoever… just that they're b*****s, and they knew he was coming in, and they knew his people were interested in this story.'
Trump has denied any wrongdoing related to Epstein, despite appearing in at least one video with the disgraced financier and attending social events with him in the past.
Trump, in a post over the weekend, lashed out at his critics within the movement.
'We're on one Team, MAGA, and I don't like what's happening,' he wrote on Truth Social.
'Selfish people are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein … Let's not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about.'