President Donald Trump's administration has been caught hiding Epstein sex trafficking case files that mention the president — and there's a key area in which more damning evidence may be found, former prosecutor Andrew Weissmann told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday's edition of "Deadline: White House."
"Andrew, 90 percent of Americans have heard about the Epstein files. About 60 percent disapprove of Trump's handling of the Epstein files," said Wallace. "The mystery has been why is Trump taking on so much political water over an issue? If he is, as he keeps saying, if there's nothing to see here, do you feel like this reporting ... offers an explanation?"
"I do," confirmed Weissmann, a frequent commentator on the Epstein case. "And I think there's going to be more, I think that it's not just going to be this allegation. I completely agree ... that this looks like a sloppy cover-up, similar to Watergate, where they got caught."
"I think where there could easily be more is something that I have been very focused on, which is the lack of a really thorough investigation," said Weissmann. "Various reporters are really looking into this issue of where are all the videotapes? Where is all the material that was at least reported, and people thought Jeffrey Epstein was recording people, and there's reason to think that he wasn't. But there's also reason to think that he was. But where is all of that material? And there's a suggestion that that has not been found, nor that it's really been looked for carefully."
For instance, he said, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche "has said that the material that came from the Epstein estate was something that the Department of Justice did not have. He said that when he said, the reason I didn't ask Ghislaine Maxwell about it is because we at the Department of Justice did not have it. So I think that there is a lot more evidence that is out there."
"I think this is where good investigative journalists and Congress can do their job, and it is where these sort of flat-out statements by [Attorney General] Pam Bondi and [FBI Director] Kash Patel, I think, are going to be paper-thin. Unfortunately, as many of their statements in the past have been. And so I think there is a lot more to come."