Ben Shapiro defends Trump admin. officials amid uproar over Jeffrey Epstein case

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro defended Trump administration officials amid the uproar over the shocking end to the Jeffrey Epstein case, arguing that there is no reason to believe that they’re lying or engaged in a cover-up.

The Justice Department’s findings that the notorious sex trafficker died by his own hand and that there was no “client list” nor “credible evidence” that Epstein was blackmailing politicians and other prominent people rocked MAGA world, leading to questions about the integrity and competence of Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.

But the Daily Wire pundit has their backs, expressing the opinion that there is no good reason not to believe them during the latest edition of “The Ben Shapiro Show” podcast.

“I don’t have any reason to believe those people are lying to me….and they have better information than I do.”@benshapiro on why he believes the DOJ and FBI based on the evidence of the Epstein case pic.twitter.com/c2oNccJawN

— The Ben Shapiro Show (@BenShapiroShow) July 9, 2025

“Let me say right at the outset, what is the real story about Jeffrey Epstein? I don’t know the answer. You don’t know the answer, nobody knows the answer, all I know is the publicly available information from court documents, and from public disclosures, and from various allegations made by various parties,” Shapiro began.

“That’s all I know and that’s all anybody knows,” he said. “Except for members of the DOJ and FBI, who have access to all sorts of information that you and I do not know. And so I will say right at the outset that when you look at the number of people inside DOJ and FBI who have now come out behind this memo, they have information I do not have, and so you now have a choice.”

“You can either believe that these people are motivated by a desire to cover something up, that the conspiracy goes even higher than we thought, or you can believe that the people who are in a position of power and a position to know, the people with access to data that I don’t have, you don’t have, no one has, that those people actually are telling the truth based on their legally best information,” Shapiro told his audience.

“Alright? That’s your choice. There is no third choice,” he said. “Either all of those people are personally involved in the cover-up, they know better and they are lying to you, or they’re telling you the truth.

“And since I have no reason to believe that Dan Bongino, for example, or Kash Patel at the FBI, or Donald Trump, or JD Vance, or any of the other people in the administration who have spoken about this before and now are saying that Epstein killed himself, and that there is no Epstein list,” Shapiro continued.  “I don’t have any reason to believe those people are lying to me, and they have better information than I do. All I can do, rationally speaking, from my own perspective, is say that I believe them.”

He did, however, say that he could change his opinion if additional evidence were to emerge.

Now, could evidence emerge that completely contradicts all of that, and it turns out they were part of a conspiracy?” Shapiro said. “Sure, that could happen, and when that happens, I will change my opinion.”