‘A Huge Joke’: Ex-Prosecutor Shreds Trump Official’s ‘Outrageous’ Epstein Talk | EUROtoday

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“To me, this is just a huge joke that is basically treating the MAGA base as a bunch of fools,” Weissmann informed MS NOW host Nicolle Wallace.

He later continued, “If [Trump] wanted to do it, he could have done it on day one of his presidency and he hasn’t.”

After taking workplace, Trump — who was open to releasing the Epstein information on the marketing campaign path — fought and in the end caved to lawmakers’ efforts to drive the DOJ to launch its information on the late convicted intercourse offender publicly.

Earlier within the day, Blanche appeared on Fox News, the place he recommended that the Justice Department would launch simply a few of its unclassified materials on Epstein on Friday regardless of dealing with a legally mandated deadline to drop all of the information.

As a consequence, Democrats and a few Republicans have accused the division of failing to adjust to the legislation and making heavy, unexplained redactions to tons of of pages.

Weissmann argued that Blanche’s speak of dropping additional paperwork within the coming weeks is an open acknowledgement that the administration is in “violation of the law.” He harassed {that a} “huge part” of the Epstein story is now what materials the DOJ just isn’t producing.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/andrew-weissmann-justice-department-todd-blanche-epstein-files-release_n_6945e773e4b00a59b4a6b51f