Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche just flat-out accused Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) that he “completely fabricated a story for clicks.” This fiery exchange kicked off after Wyden alleged that the Trump administration was obstructing his request for an unredacted document from the Justice Department’s extensive Epstein files.
The whole dispute centers around a 2015 memorandum that was prepared by the DOJ for the Drug Enforcement Agency, as part of an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and his associates. In the recent batch of released files, this particular memo was heavily redacted. What we could see was pretty eye-opening, though, revealing an interagency investigation into “illegitimate wire transfers which are tied to illicit drug and/or prostitution activities.”
