During a tense Senate hearing, Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen pressed Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on why he keeps demanding more evidence in the Epstein case while refusing to meet with the actual survivors.
Van Hollen said:
“Some Epstein survivors are extremely frustrated that you keep calling for people to come forward with more evidence but have not met with them.”
Blanche shot back defensively:
“What you just said is false. I have met with them. I’ve met with many of their lawyers.” Blanche made this statement under oath during the Senate hearing.
We point this out because that claim does NOT hold up.
Survivor advocates and multiple representatives have stated publicly that Blanche has not met with them or given them meaningful access.
While Blanche has held several high-profile meetings with Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex trafficker, he has been notably absent when it comes to actually sitting down with the women Epstein and Maxwell abused.
This is a Justice Department that has gone to the dark side to serve Trump and has abandoned its core function as an independent, co-equal branch of government as designed by the framers of the Constitution under a formula that enabled the United States to become the greatest nation on earth.
Epstein’s survivors have already provided mountains of testimony, documents, and evidence. Blanche’s refusal to engage with them directly while claiming he’s “looking into it” is nothing short of gaslighting, to use a now-tired and insufficiently forceful descriptor.
Among all of Trump’s sins his perversion of the Department of Justice just may be the most egregious, as it truly compromises one of the three great pillars of American democracy.
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