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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Justin Baragona

Charlie Kirk backtracks after saying he’s ‘done talking about Epstein,’ claims he meant just ‘yesterday’

A day after proclaiming that he was “done talking about” Jeffrey Epstein and that he would “trust my friends in the government” amid the MAGA fallout over the Trump administration’s handling of the disgraced financier’s files, Charlie Kirk is now insisting that he merely meant “yesterday” and he would continue to discuss the issue.

The Turning Point USA founder’s walkback comes as Donald Trump has been unable to quell the right-wing firestorm over his Department of Justice’s memo last week that concluded Epstein was not murdered in jail and did not maintain a “client list” in order to blackmail prominent figures who took part in his underage sex trafficking.

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