Trump's new attorney general issues shock announcement - Another Day - Brian Tyler Cohen

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BTC: Todd Blanche claims the DOJ has released all of the Epstein files. So, either he's lying or someone accidentally printed three million extra documents. This is just another day.

The past few weeks have been disastrous for the president. He started wars with Iran, the Pope, and even with his own wife over the Epstein files. So, naturally, today Trump sent out one of his minions to do some damage control.

[cut to video from Fox News]
Todd Blanche: As far as her her {Melania} call to Congress, it's exactly the same thing that we have been saying for the past year, which is the following. If there is a victim that has evidence against anybody, they should absolutely report it to the FBI and we will take it seriously no matter what.

[cut to studio]
BTC: No matter what. I guess since Pam Bondi testified before Congress a few weeks ago, they finally got the phones back up and running because back then a handful of people had the darndest time getting through to the DOJ.

[cut to video from MS NOW]
Rep. Moskowitz: And how many of you have reached out either individually or through a lawyer or representative to offer to provide testimony and evidence?

All of them.

And of those you of you all of you who have reached out, how many of you were denied or ignored by the Department of Justice?

All of them.

[cut to studio]
BTC: Look at that. Not only did the phones not work at the DOJ, Pam Bondi's neck was apparently broken, too, because she couldn't even turn it around enough to acknowledge the victims. Hopefully, she's getting that looked at with all the free time that she has now.

As of this moment, there are still 3 million documents in the Epstein files out of 6 million, by the way, that have yet to be released. And that is after the DOJ missed the legal deadline of producing all of them by December 19th. And look, I want to give them some grace here. I can't imagine the pressure that they were under doing their last minute Christmas redacting, but maybe there's another explanation here that I'm just not seeing.

[cut to video from Fox News]
Todd Blanche: We reviewed 6 million pieces of paper. What we released were anything associated with the Epstein files. So there we are not sitting on a single piece of paper. Nothing that should be released. If we find something else tomorrow, we'll release it. I don't anticipate we we will. So the the misguided assumption that there is more to be released is because we reviewed millions and millions of pages within the department, millions of which had nothing to do with Epstein.

[cut to studio]
BTC: If I could just stop you right there, the misguided assumption that there's more to be released is not based on the amount of documents you reviewed. I'd say it's a pretty accurately guided assumption based on everything this administration and almost every member of the GOP has done up until this point. Like my apologies if you feel like trust has been eroded after the president appointed his own criminal defense lawyer to be his attorney general.

If that same president who's mentioned in the files 38,000 times called the Epstein files a hoax after the DOJ redacted the names of co-conspirators while exposing the names of the victims, after Mike Johnson delayed swearing in a member of Congress to delay a vote on the discharge petition to release the files, after allowing former Attorney General Pam Bondi to ignore a subpoena, to give a deposition under oath, and after doing this.

[cut to video]
Host: Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert was the target of an apparent pressure campaign by Trump to keep the Epstein files secret.

The New York Times and CNN report that the Trump White House attempted to convince Boebert, a strong Republican ally of the president, to take her name off a congressional action that would force the release of the Epstein files. Even going so far as to call her to a meeting in the highly secure White House Situation Room with the FBI director and the attorney general.

[cut to studio]
BTC: Kind of hard to deny that you're waging a war against releasing the Epstein files when you bring a member of Congress to the war room. But not only is Todd Blanche here to tell the victims that he supports them 100%, he also wants members of Congress to know that his door always open.

[cut to video from Fox News]
Todd Blanche: What we've done with Congress is we have we we by law we had to make certain redactions by law, including of victims and of PI information, but we said to Congress, any congressman can come in and spend as much time as they want looking at everything unredacted. And if you think we should be doing something, congressman or congresswoman, let us know and we will we will do it.

[cut to studio]
BTC: Wow. I'll tell you who'd love to hear this news is Republican lawmaker Thomas Massie. He's been one of the most vocal proponents of releasing the Epstein files and until Todd Blanche's incredibly welcoming and accommodating statements from today, his calls to action have been met with, let's call it, a less welcoming tone.

[cut to video at rally]
Trump: And now Massie, he's the worst. We got to get rid of this loser.

[cut to video]
Trump: Guys like Massie, who's a real low life, whose polls are down to about 9% by the way in the great state of Kentucky. If you look at Kentucky, Kentucky is such a great place, but I don't know. They've got they've got a couple of people in there that are very strange in terms of leadership, but Massie's a loser.

[cut to studio]
BTC: Gee, with complimentary rhetoric like that, I can't imagine why more members of Congress aren't coming forward. It is bananas for Donald Trump's attorney general to go on TV and claim that this president has nothing to hide. From the moment Trump took office, all he's done is pretend that this man was just some dude he ran into by the hors d’oeuvres table.

I mean, sure, Donald Trump's entire brand is being creepy with women. Sorry, Swalwell, you're disgusting and apparently guilty of trademark infringement, but that doesn't mean these two were buddies. And if you were to dare insinuate that, well, you'd better lawyer up.

[cut to video from CNN]
Brianna Keilar: A federal judge has now dismissed a lawsuit brought by President Trump against the Wall Street Journal. This was over, you might remember, the newspapers reporting on Jeffrey Epstein and what became known as his birthday book. Let's get over to CNN's chief media analyst, Brian Stelter, who's got the details coming in. Brian, what are you learning about this?

Brian Stelter: Apologies for catching me in the car. I pulled over to write this story. But yes,

[cut to studio]
BTC: Oh man, doesn't it suck when you get busted and you have to lie on your work Zoom? I'm in my car and I pulled over to write this story. Right now, there are thousands of twenty-somethings at Coachella trying to pull off the exact same move.

[portraying a slacker] Sorry for all the movement. I'm I'm crowd surfing to get a better view of our company's fiscal opportunities. They look great and I'm simply ecstatic. Also, I'm on ecstasy.

[return to normal discourse] But hey, as far as CNN contributors getting caught on camera in an embarrassing situation goes, I'd say Brian Stelter got off pretty easy. But car-based journalism aside, this is another huge loss for Trump. And another huge loss for Todd Blanche's argument that this president is a man of honesty and integrity, the reality is every interview Todd Blanche gives is only further proof that when it comes to the Epstein files, the coverup continues.

Donald Trump somehow assumed that by firing Pam Bondi and putting Todd Blanche in replace, all of his issues with Epstein would magically disappear. And that's a pretty terrible diagnosis of the problem, especially coming from a doctor.

But the reason the Epstein files continue to haunt Donald Trump and his entire administration is because everyone can see that with this new attorney general, it's just the same product in different packaging. A person running the Department of Justice who actually has no interest in administering justice. They are simply there to act on behalf of who else but Donald Trump. Not that they'd ever make that obvious.

[cut to video with Jesse Watters from Fox News]
Todd Blanche: And so I think that to the extent that the Epstein files was a part of the of the past year of this justice department, it will should not be a part of anything going forward.

[cut to studio]
BTC: When Trump put Todd Blanche in, he was assigned one job, closing the book on Epstein, and he's been pretty successful until one lady decided to grab that book off the shelf.

[inset video]
Melania Trump: We still must work openly and transparently to uncover the truth.

BTC: I got to say it is still hilarious that Donald Trump had no idea his wife was going to give this speech.

[cut to video from MS NOW]
White House Reporter: I just got off a very quick call before we went to air with President Trump who said he was in the middle of a war meeting and that he couldn't talk for very long and had to go, but that actually he had no prior knowledge to the topic that Melania Trump, his wife, was going to be touching upon today.

[cut to studio]
BTC: Yes, he was in a war meeting and definitely not sitting at his desk seeing what an AI version of him in the Sistine Chapel would look like.

Look, if Donald Trump really truly wanted this Epstein issue to be over with, he could make it happen tomorrow with one single cabinet appointment, replacing his interim attorney general with his new one, and it can still be a Republican. Put in Thomas Massie. Can you even imagine a world where we actually believe the attorney general of the United States is not merely a puppet of the president? Where America's chief law enforcement officer is more focused on providing justice to rape victims than to running cover for the president's billionaire friends?

The fact that this mere suggestion is comically outlandish should tell you everything you need to know in terms of where we currently stand in our democracy. For as long as Todd Blanche remains Donald Trump's attorney general, he knows he has one singular mission. Making the Epstein story go away. Which is why if it's up to him, he won't release any more files. He won't prosecute any co-conspirators, and he won't meet with any more victims. Because Todd Blanche has decided he'd rather protect the perpetrators than the victims.

[inset video from Fox News]
Todd Blanche: No matter what.

[cut to studio]
BTC: Exactly.

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1. epstein taped his victims

the girls, of course, but also the rich and powerful johns.

i don't need to see trump humming a 13 year old, but every man on every tape needs to be questioned, and the decisions made by those men in response to epstein need to be reversed or reviewed.