MAGA congressman claims Biden administration ‘destroyed everything’ in the Epstein files

During a Wednesday night appearance on NewsNation, MAGA congressman Tim Burchett floated a wild conspiracy theory that the reason the Trump administration won’t release Jeffrey Epstein’s long-fabled “client list” is that the previous president’s team “destroyed everything” related to the deceased sex offender.

MAGA world has been up in arms over this week’s memo from the Justice Department concluding that there was no evidence that Epstein was blackmailing prominent figures who engaged in sex with underage girls, that the disgraced financier was murdered in 2019 while sitting in jail or that he kept a so-called “client list.”

While the anger from right-wing pundits and politicians – who have fantasized about Epstein-related arrests for years – over the memo has been red hot, much of it has been directed at the leaders of the DOJ and FBI and not at the president himself...