Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche was subjected to an intense grilling over Jeffrey Epstein on Katie Miller's podcast on Tuesday, where he defended the Department of Justice's work on the case. A coroner determined Jeffrey Epstein's death to be the result of suicide, and Blanche said all available evidence suggests Jeffrey Epstein took his own life. m.
the next morning. 5 million government documents on Jeffrey Epstein in compliance with the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act passed late last year. Blanche is serving as interim attorney general after President Trump fired Pam Bondi last week, and he was appointed as deputy attorney general last year.
I mean, no, not in any way, shape or form. When I hear this narrative that we are letting down victims or that we are failing victims... I want to make sure people know that every day we fight for victims.
Blanche said the Department of Justice has thousands of ongoing investigations and prosecutions, some involving entities the president has issues with. He added that the Department of Justice removed dozens of career prosecutors and federal agents involved in investigations against Trump. Blanche said he would be willing to look into criminal referrals coming directly from the White House.
The Justice Department has tried to bring cases against former FBI Director James Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell after Trump publicly urged Bondi to pursue cases against his political opponents.
That's a good question. And it's one of the failures, right? What happened with Epstein leads to these type of fair questions about what happened that night.
Well the Pizzagate conspiracy theory has been debunked repeatedly by law enforcement, not by me, by law enforcement.
We have thousands of ongoing investigations and prosecutions going on in this country, and it is true that some of them involve men, women and entities that the president in the past has issues with and he believes should be investigated.
That is his right and indeed it is his duty to do that — meaning, to lead this country. I do not view this as pressure. I do not view this as something that keeps me up at night.
If you were a prosecutor, and you were trying to prosecute your boss, you have ethical duties as a lawyer that I think prevent you from continuing to work in that environment.
As far as whether we would take a referral from the White House, or a referral from you, even — yes. I hope the attorney general would absolutely say, 'Yes, we'll investigate that.'
That is the most false statement I have ever heard in my life. There is always communication between a president and his priorities and what the Department of Justice should be focused on and not focused on. That is not a new thing in this administration.