Trump’s Epstein meltdown was the ‘biggest fumble,’ Fox News guest says: ‘Why are they so nervous?’

Donald Trump just committed “the biggest fumble of the administration,” according to a Fox News guest and longtime supporter of the president.

Patrick Bet-David, a conservative commentator and owner of the YouTube channel Valuetainment, voted for Trump in all three general elections but said the president made a big mistake by not being forthright about the so-called Epstein files.

On Tuesday, Trump blasted a reporter who asked about the “missing minute” in the hours-long Jeffrey Epstein jailhouse video released by the Department of Justice and the FBI.

Trump claimed the Epstein queries — made on the heels of Attorney General Pam Bondi saying there was no “client list” months after she told Fox News the list was sitting on her desk — were a waste of time.

“I mean, I can’t believe you’re asking a questions on Epstein at a time like this when we’re having some of the greatest success and also tragedy with what happened at Texas,” the president said. “It just seems like a desecration.”

Bet-David said Trump’s response constituted a grave error, pointing out that Epstein was the most trending topic on social media.

“There is a reason why people are asking about this: this is the by far the biggest fumble of the administration they’ve had thus far,” the businessman said.

Bet-David claimed the Trump administration was not on the same page about Epstein following promises to release the files and the about-face on the client list.

“Why are you fumbling this? Why are you not having an emergency meeting together to conversate and say, ‘hey, we’re going to be on the same message on this…’” Bet-David said.

He estimated that 20% of Trump voters are interested in the Epstein files.

“It’s a big letdown,’” Bet-David said. “I think this was a big fumble when it came to Epstein, and the more they answer like that the more attention you’re gonna draw.”

Trump’s response indicates the administration is either wary of what’s in the files or wants to hold on to the information to call in favors for those named in them.

“So people are gonna ask: why are they so nervous about this? What do you know that the rest of us don’t know?” Bet-David said.

“If it’s just the fact that you want to hold people’s blackmail — is that the relationship between everything?”

“My biggest suggestion: let’s not have another fumble like the one we just had here,” Bet-David said, “because this was the biggest fumble of the administration.”

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