A Democratic lawmaker from Texas playfully pounced Thursday afternoon on a CNN anchor's slight slip-up after President Donald Trump's deputy attorney general tried to argue that he didn't have access to critical materials ahead of his interview with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell.
Earlier in the day, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche posted on X that "law enforcement didn't have the materials Epstein's estate hid" ahead of his interview. The post was meant to explain why Blanche didn't push back on Maxwell's assertions that she never saw Trump at Epstein's house or with any of his victims.
Those claims were directly contradicted by new emails between Maxwell and Epstein that were released on Wednesday by House lawmakers on the Oversight Committee.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) discussed Blanche's comments during an interview on CNN's "The Arena" with Kasie Hunt.
"Why is it that Epstein's estate — I mean, Todd Blanche, the president's attorney — deputy attorney general — now, he wrote this morning that when he went to interview Ghislaine Maxwell, quite a moment, that law enforcement didn't have the materials that Epstein's estate hid for years, and only just provided to Congress," said Hunt. "Why is he only saying this now, and why is the estate talking to Congress?"
Crockett seized on Hunt's apparent slip-up.
"It was interesting because you made a Freudian slip," Crockett said. "You said the president's attorney. You're right. That's who he is. The president's former personal attorney."
"He's been trying to do Trump's bidding. He has not been acting like anyone's attorney general," Crockett added.
