Botching the release of the Epstein files helped cost Attorney General Pam Bondi her job.
The fallout from that scandal is still spreading.
And Jesse Watters just said what 330 million Americans are screaming about the Epstein files.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is now the Acting Attorney General until President Trump names a permanent replacement.
Blacnhe’s first interview as Acting Attorney General was with Fox News Jesse Watters.
Watters put the criticism of how Bondi botched the rollout of the Epstein files to Blanche.
“Now, the Epstein files, you would agree, not handled well,” Watters stated.
Amazingly, Blache defended Bondi’s handling of the Epstein files release.
“I don’t, first of all, I have never heard President Trump say that the Attorney General was that anything that happened to her had anything to do with the Epstein files. And so look, the Epstein files has been a saga that’s lasted for the entire — for the past year, and what happened when the President signed the Transparency Act is the Department of Justice has now released all the files with respect to the Epstein saga and the Attorney General Bondi and I appeared in front of Congress voluntarily a couple weeks ago to answer any questions they had,” Blanche stated.
Bondi claimed the Epstein client list was “sitting on her desk.”
Then the Department of Justice released a statement claiming that Epstein killed himself, he didn’t sex traffic young girls to anyone else, there would be no more criminal charges, and the administration wouldn’t release Epstein’s files anymore.
President Trump had to sign a law to release all the Epstein files, which contained evidence that the FBI was working on indictments of coconspirators as recently as 2019, and that there was video footage showing another inmate entering Epstein’s cell block during the time of his death.
Epstein was a Democrat who hated Trump and hung out with other Democrats.
But by stonewalling on the release of the Epstein files, Bondi hurt President Trump by allowing a false narrative to take shape that the Trump administration didn’t want to release the files as part of a cover-up.
Watters then asked Blanche which foreign intelligence services Epstein spied for.
Blanche then falsely claimed there was no evidence in the files connecting Epstein to foreign intelligence.
“All I know is that we don’t have any evidence in the Epstein files that the FBI collected over 15 years that suggests that, Jesse,” Blanche stated.
Emails in the files showed Epstein’s connection to foreign intelligence agencies, including the Mossad.
Emails from July 2011 show that Jeffrey Epstein and an associate named Greg Brown discussed plans to extort Libyan officials and seize state assets under the pretext of helping rebuild the country, with involvement from former MI6 and Mossad.
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The files also showed that the Israeli government set up a surveillance system at an apartment building owned by Epstein that former Prime Minister Ehud Barak visited.
Blanche again tried to defend Bondi’s handling of the Epstein files.
“And no matter how much criticism people want to make about the Epstein files, that is indisputable. It’s indisputable that nobody talked about the Epstein files for four years during Biden, four years, and so when President Trump said, “Let’s release the Epstein files,” the law was passed that allowed us to legally do it. We did it,” Blanche stated.
Watters told Blance that he was out of touch with how millions of Americans felt about the Epstein files, but moved on.
“Okay, I’m not sure you totally get what people feel about that, but I want to move on,” Watters concluded.
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