'A Huge Joke': Ex-Prosecutor Shreds Trump Official's 'Outrageous' Epstein Talk
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Andrew Weissmann said a "huge part" of the administration's Epstein scandal is now the material that the DOJ isn't sharing with the public.
Ex-federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann ripped Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s “outrageous” claim on Friday that President Donald Trump has “wanted to make all of” the Jeffrey Epstein files public for years.
“To me, this is just a huge joke that is basically treating the MAGA base as a bunch of fools,” Weissmann told 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 office, Trump — who was open to releasing the Epstein files on the campaign trail — fought and ultimately caved to lawmakers’ efforts to force the DOJ to release its files on the late convicted sex offender publicly.
Earlier in the day, Blanche appeared on Fox News, where he suggested that the Justice Department would release just some of its unclassified material on Epstein on Friday despite facing a legally mandated deadline to drop all the files.
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