Benny Johnson on Steve Bannon's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein: “Steve Bannon needs to answer for all of this”
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From the February 26, 2026, edition of The Benny Show, streamed on YouTube
BENNY JOHNSON (HOST): Don't go too -- you know, don't go too far down the rabbit hole, but all of the -- you know, all of these victim -- all these Jeffrey Epstein trafficking victims and their sworn testimony, some of them said Bill Clinton likes them young. Virtually all of them to a letter say that Jeffrey Epstein is a lunk head. I don't know. He's like a goon. I don't know. You ever -- you watch these interviews with him? He doesn't seem smart. I think he surrounded himself by smart people. He had a bunch of cash that he stole or was given by Les Wexner or was given to him by the CIA. Not exactly sure where his money came from. Probably all of the above. He had money. He surrounded himself with smart people, perhaps to look smart, fine. You surround yourself with bodyguards or Secret Service, you look important. OK? People do this as pranks and stuff. Right? So you surround yourself with all these physicists. You look important, but you could tell in these interviews, he's not particularly smart. He's not well-spoken.
There's this two hour interview of Steve Bannon coaching him how to do, like, a 60 Minutes profile. Again, Steve Bannon needs to answer for all of this.
And, like, he doesn't sound or seem remotely interesting, smart, or sophisticated, like, at all. Maybe he's playing dumb. But what all of the people that understood this operation knew was that Ghislaine Maxwell was the one operating Epstein, not the other way around. Many emails seem to suggest that. Ghislaine Maxwell was a fixer, a handler of sorts for Jeffrey Epstein and maybe others.