Deputy Attorney General Explains Missing Epstein Photo | EUROtoday

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche mentioned the Jeffrey Epstein information faraway from the Department of Justice’s web site Saturday have “nothing to do” with President Donald Trump.

“There are dozens of photos of President Trump already released to the public, seeing him with Mr. Epstein,” Blanche mentioned Sunday on “Meet The Press.”

He continued: “The absurdity of us pulling down a single photo because President Trump was in it is laughable,” he mentioned. “And the fact that everybody’s trying to act like that’s the case is a reflection of their true motivation.”

On Saturday, not less than 16 information associated to the Epstein case disappeared from the Justice Department’s web site after they had been uploaded the day earlier than. One of the pictures within the information that was eliminated was a photograph of a drawer filled with pictures, together with a photograph of Trump, alongside Melania Trump, Epstein, and Epstein’s longtime affiliate, Ghislaine Maxwell.

Blanche mentioned that picture was eliminated as a result of “a judge in New York” instructed the Justice Department to hearken to any sufferer or victims’ rights group if they’ve issues about one thing within the information, and in the event that they attain out and ask for the pictures to be taken down, then the Justice Department will oblige. He added that he doesn’t have “perfect information” and doesn’t know for certain if anybody within the picture was a sufferer of Epstein.

He additionally mentioned the information will finally be put again on the division’s web site.

The Department of Justice didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

“There is nothing that [Trump] has to hide in the Epstein files,” Blanche mentioned. “There never was. And even though there’s repeated attempts by Democrats to paint him as being part of the Epstein saga, it’s failing over and over again.”

Congress ordered the Justice Department to launch all information associated to the Epstein case by Friday, however the division mentioned due to the time-consuming nature of redacting victims’ names and different data, they plan to launch the information in an ongoing course of. The information that they did launch Friday provided little or no new details about the disgraced financier, who killed himself in 2019 awaiting his intercourse trafficking trial.

Democrats have been vocal about what they imagine is Trump and the White House making an attempt to cowl up any point out of Trump within the Epstein information.

In a reference to the picture that was faraway from the DOJ’s web site, Rep. Shontel Brown (D-Ohio) wrote on social media Saturday, “Trump and his lackeys have proven one thing – they’re absolutely committed to the coverup.”