Excuses For Trump's Epstein Cover-Up Keep Getting Weirder

You may read this, and think, 'okay, the excuses for Trump's Epstein cover-up can't get worse than this.' But I'm not so sure.

We're in the Mariana Trench of Republican spin, with right wing influencers trying to help Trump distract his way out of whatever Epstein had on him. This after years of cashing in on the Epstein algorithm. There may be no bottom.

Transcript via Media Matters:

GREG KELLY (HOST): Epstein, what happened? And who the hell is this guy? The stuff that has not been emphasized enough. This all was possibly a guy who was working for the Central Intelligence Agency and was engaging in sexual blackmail, blackmailing our adversaries. And we still have leverage over our adversaries. And that's why they can't reveal all the information.

Am I crazy? I don't think so. Number one, he gets a job at a prestigious high school after dropping out of NYU. He's not a college graduate. He's teaching at one of the top high schools in New York. Now get this, the guy who hired him for that job is Harry Barr. Nope, not Bill Barr. Let me see Harry Barr. OK? This guy, Harry Barr, who — now we can show you Bill Barr — is the father of Bill Barr, who also worked in the CIA. Bill Barr, before he was attorney general, before he was attorney general in the Bush administration, worked at the CIA for a couple of years. That's pretty crazy, too.

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