{"id":2571909,"date":"2026-02-20T12:20:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/everybody-is-scrambling-to-distance-themselves-from-epstein\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T12:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:22:17","slug":"everybody-is-scrambling-to-distance-themselves-from-epstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/everybody-is-scrambling-to-distance-themselves-from-epstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Everybody is &#8216;scrambling&#8217; to distance themselves from Epstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feverybody-is-scrambling-to-distance-themselves-from-epstein%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2571909&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Washington Examiner Editor-in-Chief Hugo Gurdon says that wrongdoers and people connected to Jeffrey Epstein are scrambling to distance themselves from him, noting that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alexander-vindman-who-kicked-off-trumps-first-impeachment-sues-trump-for-intimidation\/\" title=\"Alexander Vindman, Who Kicked Off Trump\u2019s First Impeachment, Sues Trump For \u2018Intimidation\u2019\">associates named<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >files\u2014including<\/a> those who claim innocence about mere contact\u2014will be scrutinized. He spoke on Fox News&#8217;s Will Cain Show about the fallout surrounding Epstein\u2019s case. Gurdon also commented on the arrest of Prince Andrew (Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor) on suspicion of misconduct in public office, calling it a shake to the British monarchy. He cautioned that clarity is tricky as the Epstein files mix victims, perpetrators, and associates, which will require extensive, careful reporting to differentiate roles. He expects the Department of Justice\u2019s epstein files\u2014some 3.5 million documents\u2014to be combed through by media and other groups, and highlighted a DOJ piece about what the files say regarding Prince Andrew.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Everybody is &lsquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-rogan-jokes-democrats-are-scrambling-to-recreate-his-success-postelection-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Joe Rogan jokes Democrats are \u2018...\u2019 to recreate his success postelection - Washington Examiner\">scrambling&#038;rsquo<\/a>; to distance themselves from Epstein: Hugo Gurdon<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2510367\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><em>Washington Examiner<\/em> Editor-in-Chief <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/hugo-gurdon\/\">Hugo Gurdon<\/a> said &ldquo;wrongdoers&rdquo; and people who were associated with <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jeffrey-epstein\/\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> are &ldquo;scrambling&rdquo; to distance themselves from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bbc-stands-by-coverage-of-prince-philips-death-after-receiving-over-100000-complaints\/\" title=\"BBC Stands By Coverage Of Prince Philip\u2019s Death After Receiving Over 100,000 Complaints\">late convicted sex offender<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There were names of people [in the files] who had associations, whether that was[[<em>The View<\/em> co-host]Whoopi Goldberg, or whoever, who claim they just had some contact with Jeffrey Epstein, but it was innocent,&rdquo; Gurdon said on Fox News&rsquo;s <em>Will Cain Show<\/em>. &ldquo;But you also have wrongdoers and everybody, not surprisingly, is scrambling to get away and to distance themselves from Jeffrey Epstein.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4464873\/vietnam-veterans-sue-stop-construction-trump-independence-arch\/\">Vietnam veterans sue to stop construction of Trump&#8217;s &#8216;Independence Arch&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4464661\/new-mexico-investigation-epstein-zorro-ranch\/\">New Mexico attorney general reopens investigation into Epstein&#8217;s secluded Zorro Ranch<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4464500\/doj-says-judge-wrong-mark-zaid-clearance-restored\/\">Judge overstepped by ordering Mark Zaid&rsquo;s security clearance restored: DOJ<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share?id=3385578&amp;userid=11311&amp;usertype=user&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=30c4e20854d5e1c85f3fea149fd1cce2\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Gurdon&rsquo;s comments come after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/4463232\/uk-police-arrest-prince-andrew-mountbatten-windsor-over-misconduct-jeffrey-epstein\/\">misconduct in public office<\/a>, relating to allegations that he shared confidential government information with Epstein during his time as trade envoy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gurdon said Mountbatten-Windsor&rsquo;s arrest is &ldquo;shaking&rdquo; the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/british-royal-family\/\">British monarchy<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Obviously, the thing today with the news of former Prince Andrew &hellip; is by far the sort of biggest nonsexual scandal, and it does, as one of your guests, [broadcaster] Piers Morgan, was just saying before, it really goes to shaking the British monarchy,&rdquo; Gurdon said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gurdon also said the problem with &ldquo;transparency&rdquo; is that the names in the files are getting &ldquo;all mixed up.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s a list of names, and there are no differentiations in some cases between those who are victims, and normally one does not want to disclose the names of victims, and those who may be perpetrators, and those who are simply associates,&rdquo; Gurdon said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s going to take a fantastic amount of reporting work, and obviously, the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-justice\/\">Department of Justice<\/a> has these files. It needs people who know how to look through these things,&rdquo; Gurdon added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4463519\/what-epstein-files-reveal-prince-andrew-investigation\/\"><strong>WHAT THE DOJ&rsquo;S EPSTEIN FILES SAID ABOUT PRINCE ANDREW<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gurdon said he expects the files released by the Justice Department to be &ldquo;combed through&rdquo; by everybody.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;These three and a half million documents are going to be combed through by everybody that has an interest to see if it can help their interests. It&rsquo;ll be combed through by news organizations, which will publish stories &hellip; it&rsquo;s going to be all sorts of different organizations.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gurdon: Epstein ties, associates scrambling away<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3984,"featured_media":2571910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP25304344795073-e1761918758903.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[9006,33710,61469,4633],"class_list":["post-2571909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-epstein","tag-pr","tag-reputation-2","tag-scandal"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP25304344795073-e1761918758903.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2571909"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2571913,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571909\/revisions\/2571913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2571910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2571909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2571909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2571909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}