Trump, Blanche and Epstein
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Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche joins after the DOJ releases thousands of pages from the Epstein files. Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.) weigh in as the U.S. escalates tensions with Venezuela.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said "bring it on," in response to members of Congress suggesting holding DOJ officials in contempt, or referring obstruction charges or impeachment, for failure to comply with demands to publish all of the remaining Jeffrey Epstein files.
More than a dozen Epstein files vanished from the DOJ database on Dec. 20, raising further questions over the handling of the Epstein file release.
Maxwell was moved from a prison in Florida to a minimum-security federal prison camp in Texas this summer shortly after she met with Blanche as part of the Trump administration’s effort to quiet backlash over its handling of the federal government’s documents related to the late Jeffrey Epstein.
"We are doing everything we're supposed to be doing to comply with this statute," Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
Critics, including some victims and advocacy groups, have said the initial batch of documents released on Friday was heavily redacted and revealed little new information
U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche joins 'Fox & Friends' to discuss the possible motive behind the Brown University shooting and MIT professor's murder and previews the release of documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
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