"You can see in that photo there are photographs of women. We learned after releasing it that there were concerns about those women," Blanche told NBC's Kirsten Welker as to why the image—which was a picture of photographs in a drawer that showed Trump—was deleted.
"Are you saying that one or more of those women is a victim of Epstein?" Welker asked, catching Blanche in a bind, as that means Trump was included in photos with Epstein victims.
The deletion of files came after the DOJ did not follow the law and only released some of the documents relating to the late accused pedophile Jeffrey Epstein—even though the bill Congress passed compelled the administration to release all of the files it possessed.
That was predictable, as Attorney General Pam Bondi had telegraphed after Congress’ bill passed that the DOJ would not be complying with the law.
Even more egregious is that the DOJ redacted mentions of "politically exposed individuals and government officials" in the files, according to Fox News, which likely would protect Trump, who we know was mentioned multiple times in the documents.
It also appears some of the redactions were done to make certain people look guilty.
For example, a photo of former President Bill Clinton, late pop icon Michael Jackson, and singer Diana Ross was included in the files. That image had big squares blacking out images of other people in the photo, implying that the trio was with victims of Epstein's abuse. However, the photo had been public for decades, and the redacted faces were of Ross' and Jackson's children—making the image deceptively redacted to imply guilt in a despicable politicalization of the files.
Of course, Trump has been acting guilty about his ties to Epstein for months. |
