Kevin O’Leary, the millionaire investor best known for Shark Tank, shocked viewers during a CNN panel Tuesday when he said victims of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell should stop seeking justice and just “get on with their lives.”
“If any of you cared about the victims, you wouldn’t drag these women who are in childbearing years now, some of them now having children, back into the limelight, back into the same story, to expose them again to this hideous outcome,” O’Leary said. “These guys, they don’t want you to help them anymore.”
O’Leary’s comments came during a heated roundtable led by CNN’s Abby Phillip. The panel was discussing the fallout from Epstein’s sex trafficking ring and why Donald Trump won’t rule out pardoning Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for helping Epstein abuse girls.
Tiffany Cross, former MSNBC host, immediately pushed back. “How do you know that? What are you basing that on? You’ve spoken to the victims who said that they don’t want justice?” she asked.
O’Leary admitted, “I have spoken to no one,” but claimed he was just being “pragmatic.”
“Don’t you think if it was you, you’d rather get on with your life?” O’Leary asked.
Cross didn’t hesitate: “No, if it were me, I would want justice pursued.”
The case continues to cause political trouble for Donald Trump. Despite promising to release all Epstein-related files, Trump has backed away from that pledge. His team now denies the existence of a so-called “client list” that many believe includes powerful people connected to Epstein.
Justice Department officials — including at least one lawyer who used to represent Trump — recently met with Maxwell for two days. She’s appealing her conviction and demanding immunity before she agrees to testify before Congress, where she’s been subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee.
Meanwhile, Trump has kept the door open to pardoning Maxwell, saying he’s “allowed” to do so. Some believe this is an attempt to get her to talk.
During the CNN discussion, former Obama State Department adviser Nayyera Haq said Trump is to blame for keeping the Epstein story alive.
“The reason this story exists is because he repeated it through the Biden administration, through his early years, to the point where his Attorney General [Pam Bondi] said that she’s going to look at the papers on her desk, they’re there right now, she has hundreds of hours of video to release,” Haq said.
“This is all of his own doing, and now he’s trying to walk himself out of the hole.”
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Kevin O'Leary on the Epstein case: "If any of you cared about the victims, you wouldn't drag these women… back into the limelight… They don't want you to help them anymore."pic.twitter.com/0bBOeJz1z2
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