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Todd Blanche Faceplants During Epstein Files Release Interview

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The Bulwark

Politics, News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Sam Stein and Jack Cocchiarella take on US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’ struggling through his appearance on Meet the Press as he stumbles through excuses for the heavily redacted Epstein files.

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0:00.0

On Friday, Todd Blanche let us all know that everyone in the DOJ was going to be breaking the law by refusing to actually release the Epstein files.

0:07.4

And today he decided why not double down on announcing that Donald Trump has broken the law in the past and continues.

0:13.4

I'm joined with Sam Stein to break down, which was one of like the worst appearances that I've seen from Donald Trump Stoges on the subject.

0:20.4

You say that every week. No, but this continue to outdo themselves. These people are stupid. And I guess you bring in stupid people when you want them to do exactly as you say. But it just hasn't worked. Okay, how about at the end of this, you tell me if I've actually fulfilled my promise that this is one of the worst interviews that you've seen? Okay. Because I, just to be clear, I've read the transcripts. I haven't seen the clip. So I'm coming in a little cold. I'm going to say they're not stupid. I think they're more corrupt. But we can debate that after we see the clips and I have a fuller understanding of how it went. It can be a bit of both. It certainly was for the first clip of Todd Blanche in which he made, which seemed like

0:56.3

an admission about Donald Trump and some photos that were released and then, of course,

1:00.8

unreleased because that's what we're doing at this point.

1:02.8

But it starts right here with Christian Walker.

1:05.0

Mr. Blanche, I want to follow up with you on what you just said.

1:07.5

You were referencing the 15 files released Friday.

1:10.5

They disappeared from DOJ's

1:11.9

website yesterday, including this photo of what looks like a desk with a drawer open containing

1:20.0

photos of Donald Trump. Just to be very clear, to put a fine point on it, why were these files

1:26.5

taken down? You're saying it was at the direction of a judge?

1:29.3

Well, you can see in that photo, there's photographs of women. And so we learned after releasing that photograph that there were concerns about those women and the fact that we had put that photo up. So we pulled that photo down. It is nothing to do with President Trump. There are dozens

1:45.2

of photos of President Trump already released to the public seeing him with Mr. Epstein. He has

1:51.2

said that in the 90s, in early 2000s, he socialized with him. So the absurdity of us pulling

1:57.7

down a photo, a single photo, because President Trump was in it, is laughable.

2:02.6

And the fact that everybody's trying to act like that's the case is a reflection of their true motivation.

2:07.6

But the reality is anybody, any victim, any victim's lawyers, any victim rights group can reach out to us and say,

2:14.6

hey, Department of Justice, there's a document, there's a photo,

2:18.3

there's something within the Epstein files that identifies me, and we will then, of course,

2:23.3

pull that off and investigate it.

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