CNN Anchor John Berman found himself playing defense while his guest, Rep. Dave Min (D-CA), flirted with defaming President Donald Trump in connection to the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Berman invited Min to join Tuesday’s broadcast of “CNN Central,” where they began with a discussion on the most recent revelations coming from the trove of Epstein-related documents released by the House Oversight Committee. As they were talking, however, Min repeatedly pushed the idea that Trump was likely guilty of wrongdoing connected to Epstein’s criminal history.
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JOHN BERMAN: There’s no reason to think that Donald Trump is involved in any wrongdoing with Jeffrey Epstein
REP. DAVE MIN: I would say we have lots of reasons to think he was involved in wrongdoing
BERMAN: Involved with what? What proof do you have?
MIN: We have a 14 year… pic.twitter.com/w9J0n7slH5
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“We’ve seen that this is just kind of the casual misogyny, disrespect for women that we’ve seen come out of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein,” Min said of a crude line drawing of a naked woman that accompanied a letter in Epstein’s “Birthday Book” — which the White House has repeatedly denied came from Trump.
“Again, I do want to say we have no reason to think that he was in any way involved with that check itself. Also, no reason to think he’s connected to any wrongdoing involving Jeffrey Epstein,” Berman cautioned. “You noted, you’re a prosecutor, you are a lawyer here. There’s this defamation —”
“I would say we have lots of reasons to think he was involved in wrongdoing,” Min ignored the warning and charged ahead. “I mean, at this point, there’s a lot of smoke. There may be some fire, but I would just push back and say I think there’s a lot reason to think Donald Trump was involved.”
“Involved with what? I’m sorry what exactly, what proof do you have that he was involved with wrongdoing in regards to Jeffrey Epstein?” Berman asked. “And if that’s the case where – why have there been no prosecutions over 20 years here? Because there haven’t really been any allegations that he was involved with the wrongdoing.”
Min was insistent: “There are a lot of connections where Donald Trump was named, right? We had a 14-year-old claiming that she was raped by him, then withdrew that claim after she was apparently threatened. His name appears a lot. And again, we, at this point, our job is to find justice for these survivors, and that means that we need to continue digging, knowing that there is a cover-up taking place right now.”
Dialing back slightly, Min continued, “And I didn’t say that we have proof. At this point, we have, like, a lot a smoke. But Donald Trump’s name is clearly mentioned multiple times. We’ve seen him lie over and over about things that we now know to be true. So again, I think that we, as the Oversight Committee, deserve, we owe an obligation to the girls, the American people out there, to keep digging and find out the truth, whoever’s involved.”
Berman tried once more to get Min to tap the brakes: “Again, Donald Trump has not been named in any connection or charged with any wrongdoing there. Ghislaine Maxwell, take this for what it is, but Ghislaine Maxwell said she never saw Donald Trump, or anyone for that matter, engage in any wrongdoing connected to Jeffrey Epstein.”
“I will just point out that Ghislaine Maxwell was indicted for perjury after she made that statement that you mentioned, transferred to minimum security prison in Texas, so again …” Min protested.