President Donald Trump‘s Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sunday that no new charges will be filed after the latest release of documents from the Epstein Files.
Speaking with CNN State of the Union host Dana Bash, Blanche said that he couldn’t ‘talk about any investigations,’ but ‘that in July, the Department of Justice said that we had reviewed the files, the Epstein files, and there was nothing in there that allowed us to prosecute anybody.’
Blanche also dismissed the premise that Trump being named over 1,000 times in the latest drop of over 3 million files means he did anything wrong.
‘What I think folks will see when they review the materials we released is that there have been hundreds of calls made to the FBI where allegations are made by either anonymous individuals or people who are very quickly determined to not be credible,’ Blanche told Bash.
Trump’s Deputy Attorney General added that ‘it turns out, there was a number of claims made by either … anonymous people or somebody, for example, calling and saying I used to have a roommate who told me this sensational story,’ he said, before adding that much of those claims could not be investigated due to lack of details.
Blanche also denounced Bash’s focus on Trump, stating that he didn’t ‘appreciate it being directed towards Donald J. Trump, because that pushes a narrative that is completely false.’
Trump was just one of many notable political and media figures who were named in the latest drop of the files, which were released on Friday and contained over 2,000 videos and 180,000 images.
The names of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and former President Bill Clinton are included in the latest drop of documents.
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