'Hold up': MAGA ally's Trump defense halted as she butchers victim's name live on CNN

CNN's Audie Cornish put an end to a conservative panelist's efforts to exonerate President Donald Trump in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

The Department of Justice disclosed another batch of documents related to a sex trafficking investigation into Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, with the president's name mentioned frequently, but Concerned Women for America CEO Penny Nance insisted to "CNN This Morning" that Trump had nothing to fear from the contents of those files.

"Listen, President Trump signed the bill,the law that requires therelease of all of this," Nance said. "I, as a survivor of anassault, I feel very stronglythat this issue has to betreated with the respect that itdeserves, and all of thesevictims deserve justice. That'swhat I told Alex Acosta."

Acosta had reached a controversial 2008 agreement as U.S. attorney in Miami that allowed Epstein to plead guilty to two counts of solicitation of prostitution and given immunity from federal prosecution. Trump nominated him during his first term as secretary of labor – although he resigned in July 2019 over criticism of that plea deal.

"Holdup," Cornish interrupted. "Look, I don't think thepresident is treating this – we don't feel satisfied by whatwe're hearing, and I don't meanto interrupt you, but you havevictims speaking out repeatedly."

"I believe they will getwhat they deserve, I believe intime they will," Nance continued, "and I actuallythink that this began with Alex Acosta when he was was the prosecutor that gave him thesweet deal in Florida. President Trump actuallyfired him for it when this allbecame clear. It should havehappened sooner, but it did, andI actually think that we havedone ourselves as conservativesa disservice not requiring thisto all come out immediately,because the truth is that allthe victims have said that Donald Trump was not guilty."

"Infact, Virginia [Giuffre] said that – I'msorry, I think I'm saying hername wrong – said that he didn'teven flirt with her," Nance added, butchering the last name of Epstein's most prominent victim, who took her own life earlier this year. "So this isthe issue is not about Donald Trump, but it is an issue aboutsome very powerful people."

Cornish halted Nance at that point.

"Well, let me pause because Ithink we're actually going to learnmore about the documents," Cornish said. "Numberone, we're going to have asurvivor on later today, soyou'll get to hear from themdirectly, and it's important tonote that the president, as yousaid, has not been accused ofbeing involved in Epstein'scriminal activity. We're goingto be watching for what comesout of those documents today."

- YouTubeyoutu.be