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Published On: Fri, Jul 11th, 2025

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump Didn’t Release Epstein List Because He Got Calls From Very Powerful People

Hoover Institute Fellow Victor Davis Hanson talks to Blaze TV’s Glenn Beck about the Trump administration and the Epstein list.

GLENN BECK, HOST: What do you think this is really about? VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: I think it’s pretty clear now that Epstein had no talent other than blackmail, and he was not a financier, he was not a captain of finance at all. What he did is he invited very powerful people to his island or his New York home, filmed them, and then he bribed them, and he shook them down and said, I’m going to be your quote-unquote financial advisor, and in exchange for that, I’m not going to release all that stuff. So why isn’t it being exposed? Because I think there are people in the establishment, I don’t know if they partook in his sick things he was doing, but they have some association with him, and they gave him money to invest when there was no reason to hire someone like that. There were much better financial gurus, but he got a half a billion dollars somehow from people who were mainstream establishmentarians on the basis that he was going to blackmail them. I think that’s how he made his money, and I think those names are numerous, and I think the Trump administration thought, well, we’re going to release this, and there’s some crazy people that we don’t care about are going to be embarrassed, and then all of a sudden they got a lot of calls and said, why are you doing this? I didn’t do this. I went down to the island once. I was on a plane. I didn’t touch anybody, and now you’re going to release my name, and I’ll be guilt by it. I think that’s what’s happening. There’s a lot of people who are very powerful that were giving him money or were trafficking with him, not necessarily all of them engaging in what he was doing, but just the association with him, and I think they’re putting pressure on people. I really do.


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