Trump and Epstein party in 1992. Screenshot from video in the NBC News archives

Todd Blanche tells Epstein survivors to "get to the point"

by · Boing Boing

Blanche needed to hold a meeting with a group Epstein survivors to get past the Senate. It sounds less like he met with them, and more like he was a belligerent jerk for 30 minutes.

Epstein survivors waited months for a meeting with Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. According to Dani Bensky, once they got it, Blanche told them to "get to the point" and asked what they were getting at. They were asking for investigations and accountability—the same point they had been making publicly and to federal authorities for years.

"He was very condescending, it was a lot of talking in circles, a lot of arguing semantics," she said. "A lot of getting to the core points that we needed answers to."

Bensky left the meeting feeling unheard.

"Basically we walked away with no answers and it felt like a no-win situation," she said.

When reporters pressed for details of Blanche being "condescending," she provided them.

"He actually said the words 'get to the point' to us," she said.

"We're survivors who have been waiting to meet with him for nine months, eight months…. He very much said, 'Can you get to the point already? What are you getting at?'"RawStory

The meeting lasted about half an hour. Survivors said Blanche directed them back to the FBI, an institution some of them have approached repeatedly for decades. Bensky later said he impatiently asked them to "get to the point." Blanche completed the meeting he needed; the survivors got no commitment to investigate.

Blanche left with a completed meeting. The survivors left with no answers.

Previously:
DOJ omitted Bondi, Patel, Blanche communications in Epstein files
Todd Blanche says warrantless home raids are not a 'black and white' issue
Bipartisan pair threatens Bondi with contempt over Epstein files