Tuberville ‘won’t get involved’ as Trump supporters push for Epstein files
Alabama U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville waved away an ongoing debate among supporters of the Trump Administration over releasing information related to the case of billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged clients, saying “we won’t get involved.”
Speaking to 1819 News Monday, Tuberville said, “We’ve got a lot more problems than that.”
Attempts to contact Tuberville’s office for comment were not immediately successful.
The imbroglio over Epstein, who died in 2019, has roiled the Trump Justice Department since a July 6 joint memo with the FBI saying that there was no Epstein “client list,” inflaming segments of the MAGA movement.
This was followed by reports that Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino is considering resigning from his post over disagreement with how Attorney General Pam Bondi handled the memo.
President Trump tried to quell the controversy with a Truth Social post urging patience with Bondi and telling supporters to “not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein.”
Tuberville instead said Trump’s supporters should seize the initiative on other legislative goals.
“That’s been talked about so much that’s kind of made it a huge issue and it is to a lot of people because, you know, child predators and all those things,” Tuberville said.
“Hopefully, eventually this will all be worked out but we won’t get involved in it. We’ve got so much to do with those bills coming up. We’ve only got three-and-a-half years.”
Tuberville was not alone. Several GOP senators asked in recent days about the Epstein case have steered clear.
“I’ll leave that up to DOJ and to the FBI. I think that’s in their purview. I think the president’s expressed his views on it and so I’ll just leave it at that,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told The Hill.
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