Trump DOJ just treated MAGA as ‘a bunch of fools’ with ‘huge’ Epstein joke: legal expert

President Donald Trump is taking his supporters for a ride on the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case, former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann told MS NOW’s Nicolle Wallace on Friday’s edition of “Deadline: White House” — and the new dump of documents only proves that further.

“Andrew, we’ve been talking theoretically. You’ve been reading,” said Wallace. “Anything strike you in terms of what the Department of Justice has made public?”

“I want to turn to something that you said at the outset, which is that we’re going to look for what’s in there, but we’re going to also look for what’s not in there,” said Weissmann. “And I just want to talk for a moment about what [Deputy Attorney General] Todd Blanche said today, because it is outrageous. It is. To me, this is just a huge joke that is basically treating the MAGA base as a bunch of fools.”

“So Todd Blanche said today that Donald Trump for years has wanted to make all of this public,” said Weissmann. “Well, we know that’s not true, because if he wanted to do it, he could have done it on day one of his presidency and he hasn’t. Two, he said, well, as you’ve reported, that he’s going to have produced hundreds of thousands, but few hundred thousand documents today and a few hundred thousand he expects later. Well, the law, as you’ve said, required it to be produced today. So what he is saying right now is they’re in violation of the law. That’s point two.”

“And then I did a little math because in September of this year, the Department of Justice put out an official statement that said there’s nothing to see here. And they’ve gone through the 300GB of information. Well, a few hundred thousand and a few hundred thousand does not equal 300GB. That is just not possible. It’s not plausible. And so the question is where are the what is not being produced? I mean, to me this is just going to scream coverup because you have them not complying with the law. Lying, in my view, to the American people about the president’s wishes … the math doesn’t equal the number.”

“To me, that is a huge part of this story, is what is not being produced,” he added. “A responsible DOJ would actually have had a press conference and they would have talked through the measures they took. They would say, this is what we’ve done, here’s the procedures, here’s what we did instead. You know that there’s a problem with what they’re doing when they do this through a sort of short-form announcement on Fox News that doesn’t answer any of that. To me, that’s the story right now.”