President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, Todd Blanche, said Wednesday that he could meet with disgraced and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s victims but could not directly approach survivors represented by lawyers, responding to Sen. Dick Durbin’s (D-IL) demands that he personally hear from 10 vic
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President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, Todd Blanche, said Wednesday that he could meet with disgraced and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s victims but could not directly approach survivors represented by lawyers, responding to Sen. Dick Durbin’s (D-IL) demands that he personally hear from 10 vic
Chuck Grassley, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, pressed Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, on the apparent mishandling of the Epstein files during the release process that he led while at the Department of Justice during President Trump's second term in the White House. President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, Todd Blanche, said Wednesday that he could meet with disgraced and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s victims but could not directly approach survivors represented by lawyers, responding to Sen. Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche on Wednesday, Blanche dismantled the Democrat-backed narrative that the Trump administration has not been transparent about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his crimes.
CBS News reported the story as "Watch: Lawmaker presses Blanche on his role in alleged Epstein files mishandlings." Washington Examiner reported the story as "Todd Blanche confronts Democrats’ questions over Epstein files handling: ‘That narrative is false’."
3 sources have covered this story, including CBS News, Washington Examiner and The Daily Wire. The earliest reporting in the cluster landed about 4 hours ago.
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