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 talkingtheoretically. You've beenreading," said Wallace. "Anything strike you interms of what the Department ofJustice has made public?"
"I want to turn to somethingthat you said at the outset,which is that we're going tolook for what's in there, but we're going to also look forwhat's not in there," said Weissmann. "And I justwant to talk for a moment aboutwhat [Deputy Attorney General] Todd Blanche said today,because it is outrageous. It is.To me, this is just a huge jokethat is basically treating theMAGA base as a bunch of fools."
"So Todd Blanche said today thatDonald Trump for years haswanted to make all of thispublic," said Weissmann. "Well, we know that'snot true, because if he wantedto do it, he could have done iton day one of his presidencyand he hasn't. Two, he said,well, as you've reported, thathe's going to have producedhundreds of thousands, but fewhundred thousand documentstoday and a few hundredthousand he expects later. Well,the law, as you've said,required it to be producedtoday. So what he is sayingright now is they're inviolation of the law. That'spoint two."
"And then I did alittle math because inSeptember of this year, theDepartment of Justice put outan official statement that saidthere's nothing to see here. And they've gone through the300GB of information. Well, afew hundred thousand and a fewhundred thousand does not equal300GB. That is just notpossible. It's not plausible.And so the question is whereare the what is not beingproduced? I mean, to me this isjust going to scream coverupbecause you have them notcomplying with the law. Lying,in my view, to the Americanpeople about the president'swishes ... the math doesn't equalthe number."
"To me,that is a huge part of thisstory, is what is not beingproduced," he added. "Aresponsible DOJ would actuallyhave had a press conference andthey would have talked through the measures they took. Theywould say, this is what we'vedone, here's the procedures,here's what we did instead.You know that there's a problemwith what they're doing whenthey do this through a sort ofshort-form announcement on FoxNews that doesn't answer anyof that. To me, that's thestory right now."