GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin Refuses to Admit Bush, Not Obama, Was President During Epstein's Plea Deal

Source: Rolling Stone

GOP Sen. Refuses to Admit Bush, Not Obama, Was President During Epstein’s Plea Deal

Peter Wade
Sun, July 27, 2025 at 11:50 AM EDT
3 min read

Sen. Markwayne Mullin tried to blame former President Barack Obama for Jeffrey Epstein’s 2008 plea deal, despite Obama not being president at the time.

Mullin made the comments while being interviewed by Jake Tapper on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday. First, Tapper and Mullin debated over whether the attorney general has the ability to release documents related to the Epstein investigation, with Mullin insisting that only judges have the ability to make that information public and Tapper arguing that there is additional information that Attorney General Pam Bondi could — and has promised to — release, yet she has not done so.

Then Mullin made a bizarre claim that Epstein struck a deal in Florida in 2009, under President Obama. But that is factually incorrect, as Tapper pointed out.

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