The biggest problem facing Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche isn’t the demand for the full release of the Epstein files, according to a legal expert.
Blanche’s biggest vulnerability is actually defending Trump’s $1.8 billion slush fund, said Harry Litman, a former U.S. attorney and legal commentator, during the latest episode of his podcast, Talking Feds. Critics of what Trump calls his anti-weaponization fund worry that it could pay Jan. 6 rioters and have grilled Blanche for answers.
“Epstein, I think they’re trying to kind of bury and get away with that. All that remains in the public eye,” Litman said. “But I think front and center will be the weaponization fund.”
Litman pointed out Cruz’s description of the fiery meeting between Blanche and GOP senators who were outraged by the fund.
It was “about the harshest, nastiest food fight,” Litman said. “People were all over him, and moreover, it’s such a nasty and corrupt kind of operation.”
Although Blanche is “gonna answer for it,” the slush fund is really “unanswerable,” Litman argued.
“Moreover, you have really continuing defections among the Republicans” over the fund. “So he’s vulnerable there,” Litman added.
“He’s given basically no answer to questions like, ‘Some of this money gonna go to January 6th offenders?’ And how can you possibly justify it?” Litman asked. “That’s front and center.”
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