Painful Silence Descends After AG Blanche Asks Dem Rep to Provide Source for Wild Epstein Claim, Then She Gives Dumbest Answer Possible– www.westernjournal.com

When a politician surrenders time in front of a microphone, it’s a politician surrendering the field.

But that’s what happened when Democratic Rep. Madeleine Dean tried to take on acting Attorney General Todd Blanche Tuesday during a House Appropriations Committee hearing.

And it was a question about the Jeffrey Epstein investigation that did her in.

Following the playbook of Democrats across the country (and a regrettable number of President Donald Trump’s critics on the right), Dean used the sordid Epstein saga as an attack tool to undermine Trump and his administration as a whole.

But as shown in a video posted Wednesday to a Justice Department account on the social media platform X, Blanche wasn’t backing away.

You’ve given us no criminal referrals for anyone identified in the files. The documents you cite were redacted to protect victims. Your hysterical outrage on this issue is manufactured and you are using victims as political pawns. Repulsive. pic.twitter.com/2Fn2fpcbnd

— DOJ Rapid Response (@DOJRR47) June 2, 2026