In an absolutely wild moment during the White House press briefing in mid-May, an independent media journalist sounded off on the alleged Clinton connection to Epstein and alleged Clinton “body count,” sending the room into stunned silence and exploding online. The journalist was with ZeroHedge, and in the press briefing as part of President Trump’s initiative to get new media more involved.
The situation started off without anything being much out of the ordinary, other than the outlet the journalist was working for. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, introducing him, said, “We have Liam Cosgrove, the White House correspondent for Zero Hedge. With that, Liam, please kick us off.”
Cosgrove, rambling a bit with his question, said, “Thank you, Caroline. So first question is on foreign policy. The President has made several moves towards peace in multiple fronts, India, Pakistan, with the Houthis, talking with Iran and talking with Putin. Biden didn’t even talk to Putin for the entire span of the war, which is crazy, considering two nuclear powers were engaged in a proxy war. So I do admire these moves by the current president. I’ll be honest.”
Still not done with the question, the “new media” journalist then got to the end of his ramble and asked Leavitt, “However, we as of today, we are still funding both Israel’s and Ukraine’s wars. So can Americans expect to finally be done financing foreign wars at some point would it be you consider that one of the President’s goals?”
Leavitt, in a lengthy answer, told him, in part, “Well, I think I can summarize the President’s foreign policy agenda with two words, America first, and that means putting the American people and the American taxpayer first. And that’s why the President is moving as quickly as he possibly can and working overtime to end these conflicts in both Israel and Gaza, and also the Russia-Ukraine War.”
It was after she finished her answer, explaining in more depth the president’s foreign policy agenda, that Cosgrove got to the Clinton-Epstein question. Beginning, he said, “And my only other question for you is so over the weekend, President Trump posted Truth Social a video highlighting what most people call the Clinton body count, which is the strange number of suicides that seem to happen in Clinton circles. I have a headline here from The Washington Post that said Trump peddles false conspiracy theories tying the Clintons to several deaths.”
Continuing, Cosgrove related another story often remarked upon that is related to the video shared by the president, saying, “So I just wanted to highlight real quick. This wasn’t in Trump’s video, but this is from the Arkansas times, and it’s the death of Mark Middleton, who was a former Clinton White House aide who was found dead on a Clinton Foundation property, and I’ll just quote from the Arkansas times, Middleton apparently shot himself in the chest with a shotgun and also hung himself from a tree with an extension cord. So I have no idea how somebody commits suicide that way. But if the Washington Post is here, maybe you can enlighten us as to how that was actually a suicide.”
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Then, getting more specifically to Clinton’s alleged involvement with Epstein, Cosgrove said, “So anyways, that’s just a lead into my question about the most famous Clinton related suicide, which is that of Jeffrey Epstein. There’s still a lot of questions around that. Case, you’ve released phase one of the Epstein files.”
He added, pressing on the Epstein situation more generally, “What was missing from that is any connection to his ties to intelligence agencies, and that’s really the whole story, that not just trafficking young girls, but doing it on behalf of intelligence agencies and even potentially as part of a blackmail ring with potential ties to the Israeli government. So for phase two, when can we expect it? Will it have information pertaining to those aspects of the Epstein case.”
As Cosgrove asked his very lengthy question, the room fell silent, in obvious shock. Leavitt, recovering her wits, simply said, “I know the Attorney General has committed to releasing those files. I would defer you to the Department of Justice on her timeline, but when she has made a promise in the past, she has kept it, and I’m certain that she will in this case as well.”
Watch the stunning incident here:
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video