Fox News host Greg Gutfeld criticized co-host Jessica Tarlov’s assertion that President Donald Trump opposes the release of documents about sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
During a heated segment on “The Five,” Tarlov claimed that the Trump administration was only releasing declassified documents on the Obama administration starting the Trump-Russia hoax because the president didn’t want to talk about Epstein.
It didn’t take long for Gutfeld to passionately tear down her talking points and tell her that she says “the same f-ing thing” as every other Democrat.
Below is a transcript of the exchange:
TARLOV: “ — read up on all the things that Trump wanted. I am excited for — if it happens, it’ll be prime time entertainment, the cage match between Tulsi Gabbard and Marco Rubio. Because Marco Rubio was the lead senator on the bipartisan intel committee and their report found Moscow’s intent was to harm the Clinton campaign, help the Trump campaign after Trump became the presumptive nominee and undermine the U.S. democratic process. That is the same thing also that Tulsi Gabbard spoke to when she was on Joe Rogan’s podcast in 2018. There’s also video footage of Barack Obama himself saying it, saying that no machines were altered, they did not hack the infrastructure, but they tried to do an influence campaign, which we have all acknowledged. Sometimes I think like, what day is it? What year is it?”
Kennedy: “Democrats?”
TARLOV: “What?”
Kennedy: “You said ‘we.’ ‘We all acknowledge.’”
TARLOV: “Well, Marco Rubio, I believe, is a Republican, and he is one of the more important ones. He has 85 rolls in the administration and he was the lead Republican who found that as well. This is such old news. It’s beyond comprehension that we’re talking about it. And I understand that this Epstein situation is very tricky for the administration, and day by day it gets worse and worse and worse. But they are pulling out all of the greatest hits to try to inflame the minds of their most conspiracy theory-addled base so that they hear Brennan, Clapper, Obama, Hillary, and they get activated and suddenly they won’t be mad at Trump anymore for not releasing the Epstein files or whatever he had to do with any of it. It’s preposterous that we’re talking about Hillary Clinton’s emails again in the year 2025 — “
TARLOV: “You know what your choice is?”
GUTFELD: “Let me — you talked — we have to take this story seriously for years and it was false.”
TARLOV: “It wasn’t false.”
GUTFELD: “No, no, no. For people to understand what happened, all right, because the problem with this story is that nobody knows what you’re talking about. With Trump 1 in 2016, the intel community concluded that Russia didn’t have a hand in his victory. Instead of accepting the conclusion, Obama determined and wanted a new conclusion, so he sent Brennan running to come up with the new collusion, that there was some kind of trivial involvement that they then could feed out to the media, and, coincidentally, dozens of news organizations said that Trump was in bed with Putin and that somehow Brennan knew. Brennan knew? How did he know?There was no proof. There was no proof.”
TARLOV: “Why did Durham do nothing then?”
GUTFELD: “No, let me finish. They amplified a false conclusion that Trump colluded with Russia in 2016. We had to spend years dealing with that. And now we’re actually getting investigation and you’re saying, ‘No. You know what? You guys should just move on. You guys should just move on. You say the same effing thing about Biden’s brain. You guys spent four years telling us that Joe Biden was fine. You covered up for an invalid, and then when we get the truth, it’s like, ‘Oh, you know what? We gotta look forward. We gotta start talking about what’s there.’ And you can bring up Epstein all you want. We, unlike Democrats, we can handle two things, three things, four things at once.”
TARLOV: “Doesn’t seem like it.”
GUTFELD: “No. Have you been listening to the right lately? The right is more on top of Epstein than Democrats are. The Democrats never cared about Epstein until they saw a political motivation. The right was into the Epstein story because chil — women were big sex-trafficked. We actually cared! But now you’re like, ‘Ooh, Epstein. A political angle. Ooh, this is fantastic.’ Save me your selective outrage.”
