Ben Shapiro calls out Steve Bannon for being a “confidant and PR adviser” to Jeffrey Epstein: “Seems to be quite damning”
Published
Citation
From the November 18, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): So, one of the things that Steve Bannon has been trying to do for years is claim that he's sort of the intellectual mover and shaker behind MAGA, which, of course, is really silly. It's really silly. There is no shadow president to President Trump. There is no one who is defining his program except for President Trump. The reason I bring this up is because Steve Bannon, among many other people, being opposed to some elements of Trump's agenda and trying to run a sort of bizarre op inside the Republican Party to remove support from Trump and move it over to his version of MAGA. He, among other people, has been quite vocal about the so-called Epstein scandal. He's been very vocal about this. He's talked about it a lot.
Well, it turns out, again, that so much of what is happening right now is just fib-ery.
According to The UK Guardian, hundreds of texts over almost a year show MAGA influencer Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein workshopping legal and media strategies to protect Epstein from the legal and publicity quagmire that enveloped him in the last year of his life. The texts, released by the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, show that as early as June 2018, the pair were devising responses to the gathering storm of public outrage about Epstein's criminal history, his favorable treatment by the justice system, and his friendships with powerful figures in business, politics, and academia.
Remember, that's 2018. 2018. That is 10 years after Jeffrey Epstein's first conviction, after the controversial plea deal that he cut with Alex Acosta. That's ten years later. OK? We're not talking about Donald Trump hobnobbing with Jeffrey Epstein in the late 90s. We're not talking about going to parties with Jeffrey Epstein at Mar-a-Lago in 2004. We are talking about ten years after it was obvious to everyone that Jeffrey Epstein was, in fact, a pedophile.
That ten years after that, he was acting not just as a sort of friend, but as a confidant and as a PR adviser, which says something about somebody.
If you're acting as a confidant and PR adviser to a convicted sex offender like Jeffrey Epstein, who is well known to be into underage girls, if that is — I don't know what that says about you or why you should have any level of authority in any future Republican Party. This seems to be quite damning.