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President Donald Trump’s acting attorney general reportedly admitted that he blames the children and women who were sexually exploited by the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein — even as he continues to resist efforts to fully disclose Trump’s relationship with his own longtime friend.
After mentioning that Trump’s acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, appeared before Congress earlier in the day and was asked about Epstein, CNN anchor Jake Tapper asked Rep. Madeleine Dean (R-PA) about her private conversation with Blanche after their public interaction before the House of Representatives.
“He actually did blame the victims — to me, to my face,” Dean told Tapper about Blanche. “When I said, 'When are you going to begin the prosecutions?' Because after all, we have one dead guy and we have a lady in a summer camp, and that's it — for more than a thousand children, girls and women who were trafficked, raped, and sexually assaulted by Epstein and the other perpetrators. And you know what he said to me at the Department of Justice, privately, just between us? He blamed the victims.”
Dean quoted Blanche saying “'Well, they didn't give us the names’” before saying that America’s top prosecutor should investigate more fully rather than simply let it rest at that.
“What I walked away with was: the cover-up is complete,” Dean said. “He blames the victims for not giving names. The victims have said, 'Please meet with us.' And the Department of Justice has not met with them. And of course, there are 20 years of investigation — the names are known to this Department of Justice, to this acting attorney general.”
She then argued Blanche is acting not with Americans’ best interest at heart, but as a personal advocate for Trump.
“He was paid nearly $10 million a year or so ago to defend Donald Trump as a private attorney,” Dean told Tapper. “He then hung a 30-foot banner on the Department of Justice — which I think is grotesque and revealing of the failure of independence of the DOJ — a menacing Trump face as the face of the DOJ. And then, do you know what he said when asked if he doesn't get confirmed as attorney general? He said, 'I would say to the president, I love you, sir.'”
She concluded, “The guy is under terrible conflict. You could see he was quite dismissive and agitated — in our conversation both privately at the Department of Justice and then publicly before the American people. He has no interest in pursuing justice. And that's what I'm going to keep pushing for.".
Trump denies all the sexual misconduct accusations.
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