Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) dismissed the concerns of survivors of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein just moments after he voted to allow acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to get a full vote on the Senate floor.
After explaining during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that he has no problem with the controversial Blanche becoming President Donald Trump’s next attorney general because of a compromise on the president’s IRS immunity deal, he was cornered in the hallway by reporters.
Telling the assembled reporters he was pleased that he got Blanche to agree with him on the so-called “slush fund,” he was asked, “Survivors said that your vote was going to have a chilling effect on survivors of sexual assault and things like that. What's your response to them? They were frustrated that you didn't meet with them in person.”
“Well, what happened to them is, is a tragedy,” he demurred. ”There's — we know that people have been convicted of trafficking in the crimes and Epstein is no longer no longer with us.”
“But I don't believe there's anything we could do to assuage them at this point,” he stated. “But we need to continue to help them every way we can, but I just think that's one of those things that cannot be remedied with a no vote.”
Cornyn did not address the fact that, as attorney general, Blanche can sit on the Epstein files as he and former Attorney General Pam Bondi have been accused of doing since the DOJ took control of them.
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