Klobuchar Torches Trump For Deflecting Epstein Blame On Dems: Like Astronomer CEO 'Blaming Coldplay'

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During an interview with CNN on Sunday, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) spoke about President Trump deflecting blame for the Epstein files on the Democrats.

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00:00So right now, we're in the middle of a procedure.

00:03The president, frustrated with this issue, has asked his attorney general, Pam Bondi,

00:08to release what he calls the pertinent grand jury testimony from cases involving Epstein

00:13and his longtime associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, who's in prison.

00:16That information, however, even if it's released, will only be about crimes committed by Epstein

00:20and Maxwell, and experts say it will almost certainly not mention the other wealthy and

00:25powerful individuals who may have gotten away with crimes that they were not charged with.

00:29You're a former prosecutor.

00:31What do you think is responsible to be released?

00:34Well, Jake, this has gotten to the point because of promises made by the president.

00:41By the way, another host of promises not kept, whether he promised he was bringing prices down.

00:46He has not promised he would keep people on Medicaid.

00:50They're getting kicked off.

00:51And now promises that they're going to release these Epstein files made while they were in

00:56office, while the attorney general was in office.

00:59Promises made by the man who is now the FBI director.

01:03So you get to a point, and this is how I view it as a former prosecutor, you have to protect

01:08the victims if you release documents.

01:10That's fairly easy to do.

01:11You just redact the names of victims and you've seen documents like that before.

01:17But this has gotten to the point where they have just sown distrust in the justice system.

01:22They've promised that these documents would be out there.

01:25They literally gave people binders that said part one.

01:29And now suddenly, with a whistleblower reporting that 100,000 documents were reviewed by the

01:34FBI to look for the president's name, they've suddenly pulled back and said, no, we're not

01:40releasing them.

01:41So, to me, as a former prosecutor, there are times when you release things for the good

01:46of the country.

01:47This is one of those times, and you don't go and say, oh, we just got to see if a judge

01:51will let us do part of the evidence, part of the files that are over here in this grand

01:55jury proceeding after dissing judges forever.

01:58Give me a break.

01:59I want to play something your Senate colleague Ron Wyden of Oregon said on the Senate floor

02:03earlier this week.

02:06Somewhere in the Treasury Department, Mr. President, locked away in a cabinet drawer, is a big Epstein

02:12file that's full of actionable information.

02:17Follow the money details about its financing and operations that await investigation.

02:23JOHN YANG, JR.: Julie Brown, the investigative reporter whose Miami Herald story in 2018 really

02:29brought this Epstein case back into the forefront.

02:32She says that file of financial records would be a trove of information in terms of finding

02:37other guilty parties.

02:39JOHN YANG, JR.: Do you think the Treasury Department should release what they have on Epstein, too?

02:44LIKE I SAID, THINGS SHOULD BE RELEASED.

02:46WE SHOULD KNOW WHAT HAPPENED HERE.

02:48AND IT IS A CLAIM THAT THIS PRESIDENT HAS MADE TIME AND TIME AGAIN.

02:53AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED.

02:56JOHN YANG, JR.: SO, PRESIDENT TRUMP POSTED ON TRUTH SOCIAL FRIDAY, QUOTE, IF THERE WAS A SMOKING

03:00GUN ON Epstein, WHY DIDN'T THE DEMOCRATS WHO CONTROLLED THE FILES FOR FOUR YEARS AND HAD GARLAND AND COMEY IN

03:06CHARGE USE IT BECAUSE THEY HAD NOTHING, UNQUOTE.

03:09AFTER THE MIAMI HERALD STORY BROKE IN 2018, YOU SAID THERE WAS SOMETHING NOT RIGHT IN THE

03:13EPSTEIN CASE.

03:14BUT IT'S TRUE THAT THE PRESIDENT SAYS THERE, DEMOCRATS DIDN'T REALLY SEEM TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT

03:19THE EPSTEIN FILES THROUGHOUT THE FOUR YEARS OF THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION.

03:23I MEAN, SHOULD YOU HAVE?

03:24YOU SIT ON THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.

03:25SENATOR MARSHA BLACKBURN FOR YEARS HAS BEEN TRYING TO GET FLIGHT RECORDS AND OTHER INFORMATION ABOUT

03:31EPSTEIN RELEASED AND SHE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN THE ONLY ONE ON THAT COMMITTEE TRYING TO DO SO.

03:37SO THE PRESIDENT BLAMING DEMOCRATS FOR THIS DISASTER, JAKE, IS LIKE THAT CEO THAT GOT CAUGHT ON

03:43CAMERA BLAMING COLD PLAY, OKAY?

03:46LIKE, THIS IS HIS MAKING.

03:49HE WAS PRESIDENT WHEN EPSTEIN GOT INDICTED FOR THESE CHARGES AND WENT TO PRISON.

03:55HE WAS PRESIDENT WHEN EPSTEIN COMMITTED SUICIDE.

03:59AND THEN THERE WAS ANOTHER CASE, AS YOU KNOW, THAT CONTINUED DURING THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION.

04:04BUT HE WAS PRESIDENT BACK THEN.

04:05SO ALL OF US WOULD BELIEVE THEY KNOW WHAT'S IN THESE DOCUMENTS.

04:09THEY KNOW WHAT'S THERE.

04:10THEY'VE BEEN CLAIMING FOREVER THAT THEY SHOULD BE RELEASED.

04:12AND IT IS THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION THAT GAVE A BUNCH OF BINDERS THAT SAID VOLUME ONE TO

04:17REPORTERS JUST IN THE LAST MONTH.

04:20IT IS THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION THAT HAS MADE THIS PROMISE THAT THEY'RE GOING TO RELEASE IT.

04:24SO I AM BLAMING DEMOCRATS FOR THIS TO ME.

04:27I'M SORRY, THIS IS THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN FOMENTING THIS ARE RIGHT-WING INFLUENCERS,

04:32MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, PEOPLE WHO HAVE A REASON THAT THEY WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S IN THERE.

04:36THEY BELIEVE THE PRESIDENT WHEN HE SAID THERE'S STUFF IN THERE THAT PEOPLE SHOULD SEE.

04:41WALL STREET JOURNAL, THESE ARE NOT BASTIANS OF LIBERALISM OR WILD PROGRESSIVES THAT HAVE COME

04:47OUT AND SAID THE PUBLIC HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW WHAT IS IN THESE DOCUMENTS.

04:53WHAT HAPPENS?

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