Appearing for an interview on conservative cable news channel Newsmax on Monday, February 9, MAGA-friendly Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) argued that so many members of Congress are connected to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal or other scandals like it that, really, “a lot of congressmen probably should be in jail”.
Rep. Burchett’s commentary on the matter came during his discussion on Newsmax about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, generally, and on the upcoming, Epstein-connected deposition before a House investigatory committee of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Rep. Burchett called the two an “evil pair”.
Beginning his commentary with that line and some other descriptors of the political duo, the congressman alleged, “There’s a reason that they’re not in prison and a reason that he was in the White House for two terms and she was secretary of state, because they’re very slippery and they’re very smart and I think they’re an evil pair.”
Continuing, the congressman argued that the two are likely to be smug and unhelpful, saying, “I think she is probably the brains behind the operation, but I don’t think we’ll get much on them. I know a lot of people want us to get them, and it’d be great clickbait, I’m sure, but I think when it comes down to it they’ll either bail or they won’t answer very many questions and be very evasive and be very smug.”
Further, he argued on much the same point that, while they ought be arrested and face justice, they almost certainly won’t be, saying, “Because in this world there are two forms of justice – those like the Clintons and for the rest of us – and unfortunately, I don’t see them being– you know, everybody says we’ll put them in handcuffs, all this stuff. All that’s talk.”
He also noted that Congress can’t send people to jail, meaning that the Clintons will have to be exposed as having committed crimes for which the statute of limitations hasn’t run out, saying, “The law’s gotta back you up on it and, you know, we gotta define what those laws were that they broke, and Congress cannot send somebody to jail.”
Concluding that point about the Epstein situation and Congress, the MAGA congressman then said, “Oddly enough, a lot of congressmen probably should be in jail, but the truth is that we’re not gonna. I don’t think it’ll boil down to anything, and that’s gonna make a lot of people mad, but I believe that’s the truth.”
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Burchett also said, during his appearance on Newsmax, that it is unlikely that Ghislaine Maxwell survives being released from prison, if indeed she is released at some point, saying, “I see maybe she gets out early on good behavior and does a humongous book deal and probably ends up committing suicide by getting shot in the back of the head five times because this thing goes very deep and the people involved in it are very powerful. And I’m still one of those that believe Epstein didn’t kill himself, ma’am. I just don’t think he did.”
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