Posted on 02/01/2026 5:15:46 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Deputy US attorney general says victims ‘want to be made whole’ but that doesn’t mean ‘we can just create evidence’
The deputy US attorney general, Todd Blanche, the point person on the Trump administration’s Epstein files release, told ABC News on Sunday that prosecutors’ review of the Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking case “is over”.
Separately, in comments to CNN about Epstein, Blanche said that “victims want to be made whole” after surviving the scheme attributed to the late convicted sex offender and which led to a 20-year prison sentence for Maxwell beginning in 2022.
“And we want that,” Blanche said. “But that doesn’t mean we can just create evidence or that we can just kind of come up with a case that isn’t there.”
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in an image released by the justice department in December 2025. Democrats accuse DoJ of not releasing millions of Epstein files despite legal requirement Read more While Blanche acknowledged “there’s a lot of horrible photographs that appear to be taken by Mr Epstein or by people around him … that doesn’t allow us necessarily to prosecute somebody”.
Blanche’s comments took aim at survivors who met Friday’s release with calls demanding further accountability for the alleged clients of Epstein and Maxwell. He also made those comments amid complaints from federal Democratic lawmakers that Friday’s release – along with a number of earlier ones – were incomplete.
Responding to a question about claims by victim’s attorneys that some identities had not been correctly redacted, Blanche on Sunday said, “We immediately rectify that.” But, he added, “the numbers we’re talking about were .001% of all the materials.”
Blanche also said it was “amazing” that the justice department was facing accusations of a cover-up less than a day after it dropped millions of files.
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What would he, the republicans, or the president have to gain by killing the investigation?
Only sex trafficker that had no clients.
You have 3.5 million pages to review...get to it...
The one with the cup sounds pretty credible. And disturbing.
They’re breaking the law.
Not waste time in pursuit of nothing.
cop
“Victims want to be made whole.” Uh-huh. That isn’t the government’s job. They should contact a good plaintiff’s attorney.
Todd Blanche keeps shutting down Ed Martin's investigations.
Todd Blanche shuts down Eagle Ed’s probe into Sandy Hook lawsuit
I read somewhere the other day that many of the victims have been paid off handsomely over the years and that is why you hear little from them. There may be some truth to that.
I don’t see anywhere in the body of the article where Blanche is directly quoted as saying “it’s over”—only in the headline. I’d like to see the entire quote by him containing those words (if there is one) to put into context. More putting words in the mouths of Trump officials by the press to generate outrage?
Crap, so this guy is another Sessions, Barr RINO back stabber?
Those victims already received half a million dollars each. Whole?? They want to double dip.
“They should contact a good plaintiff’s attorney.”
The did.
They won’t.
They collected.
$$$
Twenty one years ago an investigation was launched but it remains the nut impossible to crack.
do you believe he said it?
“They’re breaking the law.”
So go get an indictment, smart guy.
L
Several indications are the Epstein was a Russian honey trap. Makes sense.
So Maxwell got twenty years for sex trafficking to whom???
If this is all the DOJ has, then Maxwell was railroaded and all the victims are liars. Just curious, why would there be “tens of thousands” of video files - with nothing in them?
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