Amy 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, promises made by the man who is now the FBI

01:02director.

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.

01:14And 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 promised that these documents would be out there.

01:26They literally gave people binders that said part one.

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

01:35FBI 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.

01:48And you don't go and say, oh, we just got to see if a judge will let us do part of the

01:53evidence, part of the files that are over here in this grand jury proceeding after dissing

01:57judges forever.

01:58Give me a break.

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

02:03this week.

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

02:10is a big Epstein file that's full of actionable information.

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

02:24JUDY WOODRUFF, the investigative reporter whose Miami Herald story in 2018 really brought

02:29this 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.

02:39Do 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.

02:56So, President Trump posted on Truth Social Friday, quote, if there was a smoking gun on

03:01Epstein, why didn't the Democrats who controlled the files for four years and had Garland and

03:05Comey in charge 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

03:19about the Epstein files throughout the four years of the Biden administration.

03:23I mean, should you have, you sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Marsha Blackburn

03:27for years has been trying to get flight records and other information about Epstein released.

03:32And she seems to have been the only one on that committee trying to do so.

03:36So the president blaming Democrats for this disaster, Jake, is like that CEO that got caught

03:43on camera blaming Coldplay, OK?

03:45Like, 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.

03:58And then there was another case, as you know, that continued during the Biden administration.

04:03But he was president back then.

04:05So all of us would believe they know what's in these documents.

04:09They know it'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.

04:28This is the people that have been fomenting this are right-wing influencers, members of Congress,

04:34people 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 bastions of liberalism or wild progressives that have

04:47come out and said the public have a right to know what is in these documents.

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