Judge Paul Englemeyer issued a blistering ruling against President Donald Trump's administration on Monday, but explained that he refused to become the patsy.
Englemeyer turned down the demand to release the grand jury information around Jeffrey Epstein's case. He wrote that there was essentially nothing new in the information, and the Justice Department's effort to release the information was "disingenuous."
Speaking about it to MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace, former FBI general counsel and top federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann called the DOJ's move "a lot of malarkey."
"That's what the judge is calling out. He's like, any day of the week, if you wanted to be transparent, you can turn over all of the non-grand jury information, which the government has said is hundreds of gigabytes," said Weissmann about the Epstein files being concealed by the Trump administration.
"And so, the judge is absolutely right to call this out, to say this is a complete sideshow and that if he actually did grant this, all it would do is serve to show and prove up how disingenuous the administration is being," Weissmann continued.
He called it all a "distraction because all of this could be made public any minute by this administration if they wanted to prove Democrats were behind it all. They could disclose everything."
All of it leads Weissmann to question what is really going on inside the White House.
"There has to be something in these files that is so bad for Donald Trump. I mean, that is really the key here. It has got to be something worse than you know — I was involved in the Russia investigation. There has to be something there that Donald Trump is deathly afraid of."
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