Testy Erin Burnett cuts off Nancy Mace as she attacks media over Trump 'clickbait'

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) claimed on CNN on Monday that President Donald Trump was enthusiastically in favor of releasing the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking files, despite his weekslong efforts to keep them under wraps — and anchor Erin Burnett had to cut her off as she blamed former President Joe Biden and the media for the Epstein victims being silenced.

"I'm glad that the president is on board with everyone voting to release the Epstein files," said Mace. "This is huge and historic. We could have done this under President Biden, but Democrats chose not to do that ... And thething that I'm really frustratedwith, with the media right nowis that they want to focus onPresident Trump, and they're nottelling the stories of thesewomen who risked it all theircareers, their livelihood, theirfutures to come forward. Thecourage that it took. Those arethe stories we should be tellingright now, not the clickbait ofwhat Trump said or he said, shesaid. I want to hear theirstories, because getting thiskind of justice, getting thiskind of thing, this evidence tocome out, voting on it, it'snever happened before."

Burnett butt in to defend her program from the accusations.

"Well, I'm quite proud that on thisprogram we've had everyvictim of Jeffrey Epstein thatwas willing to speak. But thePresident of the United States didsay over the weekend that 'only avery bad or stupid Republican'would fall into the 'trap' ofvoting for the release of thefiles," said Burnett.

"And he's come around," said Mace. "Biden wouldn't do anything ... Trump hascome around and Biden never camearound. Biden never gave these women a chance. And that's the story you all aren't telling."

Burnett quickly stepped in to point out that much of the investigation itself happened under Biden.

"They had the investigation into Ghislaine Maxwell, which resulted in her being put in prison, and then she was moved to a minimum security prison in a residential neighborhood after meeting with Todd Blanche."

But Mace tried to deflect Burnett's counter.

"Victims who come forward, they're sued, they're smeared, they're defamed in the press," she said. "And that kind of thing has to stop, because that's why women don't come forward. Because the way we're treated in the media domain, the public domain and social media."

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