In a hysterical swipe at the decades-old conspiracy theories linking the Clinton family to suspicious deaths, TV host Trevor Noah jokingly asked Hillary Clinton how she managed to execute one of the country’s wealthiest and most infamous sex offenders.
“I have to ask you a question that has been plaguing me for a while. How did you kill Jeffrey Epstein?” he asked Clinton during her Thursday night appearance on his Comedy Central program, “The Daily Show.”
The question drew laughter from the former secretary of state and her daughter, Chelsea Clinton, who were in New York to promote their new book.
Noah went on to ask the former first lady how she continues to be “the boogeyman of the right,” facing baseless murder accusations by online trolls and conspiracy theorists years after she left public office and lost a presidential bid to Donald Trump.
“You’re not in power, but you have all the power,” Noah said. “I really need to understand how you do what you do because you seem to be behind everything nefarious and yet you do not use it to become president.”
The 72-year-old Democrat said it’s “a constant surprise” to learn people actually believe she’s behind high-profile deaths.
“The things they say — and now, of course, it’s on steroids with being online — are so ridiculous beyond any imagination that I could have and yet they are so persistent in putting forth these crazy ideas and theories,” she said. “Honestly, I don’t know what I ever did to get them so upset.”
The interview came one day after a forensic pathologist hired by the Epstein family suggested the financier’s Aug. 10 death inside a Manhattan jail may have been a homicide. A chief medical examiner immediately brushed off that suggestion, arguing that Epstein killed himself by hanging.
The 66-year-old billionaire faced sex trafficking charges when he was found dead with a bedsheet around his neck inside his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center. Epstein had been taken off suicide watch despite an attempt to kill himself just two weeks earlier, a controversial decision that prompted investigations by the FBI and other federal agencies after his death.
The case revived a popular and unfounded conspiracy theory that the Clintons have ordered dozens of people killed, with online trolls baselessly linking the former presidential candidate to Epstein’s death and starting the social media hashtag #ClintonBodyCount.
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