When a politician surrenders time in front of a microphone, it’s a politician surrendering the field.
But that’s what happened when Democratic Rep. Madeleine Dean tried to take on acting Attorney General Todd Blanche Tuesday during a House Appropriations Committee hearing.
And it was a question about the Jeffrey Epstein investigation that did her in.
Following the playbook of Democrats across the country (and a regrettable number of President Donald Trump’s critics on the right), Dean used the sordid Epstein saga as an attack tool to undermine Trump and his administration as a whole.
But as shown in a video posted Wednesday to a Justice Department account on the social media platform X, Blanche wasn’t backing away.
You’ve given us no criminal referrals for anyone identified in the files. The documents you cite were redacted to protect victims. Your hysterical outrage on this issue is manufactured and you are using victims as political pawns. Repulsive.pic.twitter.com/2Fn2fpcbnd
— DOJ Rapid Response (@DOJRR47)June 2, 2026
“Let me be crystal clear,” he said. “That this Department of Justice will always, will always, protect victims and will always prosecute anybody we can. OK? Full stop. No ifs, ands, or buts.”
At that point, as shown on a split-screen video of the encounter byCBS News, Dean held up a document from the Epstein investigation filled with pages of redacted information in black ink. It was all part of a wild claim that the DOJ had redacted the names of a sexual predator’s co-conspirators simply to protect the White House.
Her point was clearly to accuse Blanche of a cover-up, but again, he wasn’t caving.
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