A federal judge ordered the Trump administration's Justice Department to publish handwritten FBI interview notes in its Epstein files library, giving Attorney General Todd Blanche 14 days to comply, according to a new report in MeidasTouch.
“This is what we want. Lawsuit progressing, wins along the way,” attorney and MeidasTouch host Katie Phang said in a video celebrating “the three latest big orders."
She urged viewers: “Be mad. Be outraged. Demand accountability.”
The notes underlie FBI reports from three of four interviews conducted in 2019 with a woman who alleges she was sexually abused and physically battered by Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein and others when she was between 13 and 15. The allegations are not findings by the court.
Blasting Blanche on Tuesday, Phang said that Judge Emmet Sullivan “has got his number.”
“And Judge Sullivan has been telling Blanche, ‘No. No, I’m not going to give you a pass on this.’” She called Blanche’s effort to shift responsibility for identifying the administrative record to her and the court “lazy and incompetent.”
The biting remarks came after Sullivan rejected Blanche’s request to postpone filing a certified list of the records the Justice Department relied on in deciding how to handle the Epstein files.
The orders also require Blanche to file that list by Nov. 17 and produce the administrative record by Dec. 1. The DOJ must submit a sworn status report on its review of foreign-language documents by Dec. 10. Phang has until Dec. 31 to respond to Blanche’s motion seeking judgment in the case.
The judge’s publication order directs the DOJ to post the notes online, but a temporary order is in place while Blanche seeks a stay from the D.C. Circuit.