Every time the subject of Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious client list arises, the public witnesses a familiar pattern: officials evade, the media muddies the waters, and the elites breathe easy. Despite years of demands for transparency, the Trump administration claimed the Epstein client list doesn’t exist. But on Thursday, Alan Dershowitz contradicted that narrative, stating he had seen the list himself when defending against false accusations of involvement with Epstein.
So if the list is real, where did it go?
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) offered his theory in a recent interview with NewsNation’s Leland Vittert. He believes the Biden administration deliberately destroyed the Epstein files to protect influential figures.
“I think the files existed at one time,” Burchett said. “I think they were destroyed in the previous administration… and if they’d ever had anything on Trump, it would have been out day one under the Biden administration.”
When Vittert agreed, Burchett pressed further, suggesting the names on the list might be too explosive to reveal. “I think there’s some very prominent people. There’s Hollywood people, but I think there’s world leaders too. And would it have caused economic disruption around the globe? Maybe. But I don’t really care.”
Vittert questioned whether the names might be withheld to avoid unjustly smearing people who interacted with Epstein but did nothing wrong. Burchett dismissed the idea, pointing to Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction: “What’s Ms. Maxwell doing in jail? What did she do? Where is that… you know, who did she provide whatever she did? Why is she in jail? That’s gotta be a question that should be asked at some point.”
He didn’t mince words: “Dead men tell no tales. He’s dead.” When asked to clarify if he was accusing the Trump administration of destroying the files, Burchett replied, “No, I think they destroyed everything,” referring to the Biden administration.
Former special prosecutor Pam Bondi declined to make such a claim directly. Burchett speculated, “Because she doesn’t have any proof of it. I’m just telling you what I think.”
He also criticized Bondi’s handling of the issue. “I think she’s got over her skis pretty much, saying all this stuff — ‘The files are on my desk. I’m gonna release it.’ — and then she releases stuff that I knew.”
Burchett said his suspicions come from experience. “I’ve been around this town enough. I just don’t think they exist. I think they did at one time.”
He compared the matter to the Hunter Biden laptop controversy: “You got an administration that lied and said Hunter Biden’s laptop didn’t exist… You had 30 of the top so-called intelligence people in the country say that, and they didn’t get chastised by anybody but y’all and a couple of others.”
Burchett made it clear—he doesn’t buy the official narrative, and he doesn’t believe the full truth about Epstein will ever be known.
