'Filthy traitor': MAGA furious as top Trump lawyer feigns ignorance over Epstein list
Justice Department Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche was hammered by conservatives Wednesday after he dismissed claims about Jeffrey Epstein during a recent appearance on “The Katie Miller Podcast,” the right-wing political talk show launched by the wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.
Miller bluntly asked Blanche in the interview published Tuesday evening whether an “Epstein client list” existed and, if it did, if the Trump administration was “in possession of it.”
Blanche fiercely denied such a list existed before going on to claim that he didn’t even “know what a client list is.”
“I mean, I could ask you the same question, right, because everything’s been released. What’s commonly referred to as a client list – if I were speculating – is the black book that has been released for years and years that was basically Epstein’s address book,” Blanche said.
“That exists, but to be honest with you, I don’t know what a client list is. I’m not trying to be naive, but what would a client list consist of? A list of the people [Epstein] was supposedly blackmailing? Is it people that were his business clients, his personal clients? But no, I have not seen such a list.”
Epstein’s so-called “client list” is a colloquial term often used to describe a list of potential co-conspirators of Epstein, or individuals he or his accomplices had potentially trafficked children or young women to. However, it’s often been conflated with what’s been referred to as Epstein’s “little black book,” an address book filled with personal contact information that’s been public in a redacted form for years.
With the DOJ’s recent releases of Epstein-related files, however, evidence that the agency was at least considering indicting at least ten potential co-conspirators of Epstein has come to light, leading a number of conservative political commentators to express outrage over Blanche’s dismissals.
“Todd Blanche is a filthy traitor,” wrote X user “Kentucky Statesman," a conservative political commentator and fierce advocate for the Republican Party.
John Deaton, a trial lawyer, former GOP candidate and U.S. Marine Corps veteran, attacked Blanche as being “full of ----,” only using an emoji as a stand-in for profanity.
Even a prominent participant in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot – Eduardo Nicholas Alvear Gonzalez – came out against Blanche for his dismissal of claims around Epstein.
“At least I stormed the Capitol on January 6th,” Alvear Gonzalez wrote in a social media post on X. “I’d say as of recent America those of us who did actually set an example of what we ought to do when the government has failed us.”