ABC responds to anchor’s hot mic rant accusing network of squashing damning Epstein story

Andrew Kerr, DCNF  

(Photo by Ray Tamarra/GC Images)

ABC News and anchor Amy Robach issued statements Tuesday distancing themselves from footage of the anchor saying on a hot mic that the network had stonewalled her reporting of Jeffrey Epstein for three years.

“She told me everything,” Robach was filmed saying of an interview she conducted with Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre in 2015. “She had pictures, she had everything. She was in hiding for 12 years. We convinced her to come out. We convinced her to talk to us. It was unbelievable what we had — Clinton, we had everything.”

Robach added that she had interviewed other women backing up claims made by Giuffre, who said Epstein farmed her out for sex to Britain’s Prince Andrew and others, but the anchor said she was told it was a “stupid story” because “no one knows who” Epstein was. The anchor also said the royal family threatened the network in “a million different ways” after it caught wind of Robach’s reporting.

“We were so afraid we wouldn’t be able to interview [Kate Middleton] and [Prince Wlliam] that we, that also quashed the story,” Robach was filmed saying.

But despite boasting on a hot mic of the thoroughness of her reporting, Robach responded to the footage in a statement Tuesday that her interview with Giuffre didn’t air “because we could not obtain sufficient corroborating evidence.”

“I was upset that an important interview I had conducted with Virginia Roberts didn’t air because we could not obtain sufficient corroborating evidence to meet ABC’s editorial standards about her allegations,” Robach’s statement read.

Robach also said nobody at ABC had told her to stop reporting on Epstein. “We have continued to aggressively pursue this important story,” she said.

ABC News issued a statement alongside Robach saying it plans to release in early 2020 a two-hour documentary and a six-part podcast about Epstein.

Project Veritas, which released the footage Tuesday morning, said the hot mic moment between Robach and an unnamed ABC producer was captured in late August.

WATCH:

Epstein, who was arrested and charged with federal sex trafficking charges, was found dead in his jail cell in August.

Epstein’s death was ruled a suicide, but several oddities surrounding his death has fueled rampant speculation that he was murdered.

Two guards tasked with guarding Epstein’s unit had fallen asleep and failed to check on him for about three hours on the night of his death, The New York Times reported. The guards then falsified records in an attempt to cover up their mistake.

Further, two security cameras outside of Epstein’s cell malfunctioned on the night of his death.

For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact [email protected].

DONATE TO BIZPAC REVIEW

Please help us! If you are fed up with letting radical big tech execs, phony fact-checkers, tyrannical liberals and a lying mainstream media have unprecedented power over your news please consider making a donation to BPR to help us fight them. Now is the time. Truth has never been more critical!

Success! Thank you for donating. Please share BPR content to help combat the lies.

Comment

We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spam, instead of replying to it please click the ∨ icon below and to the right of that comment. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.

BPR INSIDER COMMENTS

Scroll down for non-member comments or join our insider conversations by becoming a member. We'd love to have you!

Latest Articles