President Donald Trump's Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sunday that no new charges will be filed after the latest release of documents from the Epstein Files.
Speaking with CNN State of the Union host Dana Bash, Blanche said that he couldn't 'talk about any investigations,' but 'that in July, the Department of Justice said that we had reviewed the files, the Epstein files, and there was nothing in there that allowed us to prosecute anybody.'
Blanche also dismissed the premise that Trump being named over 1,000 times in the latest drop of over 3 million files means he did anything wrong.
'What I think folks will see when they review the materials we released is that there have been hundreds of calls made to the FBI where allegations are made by either anonymous individuals or people who are very quickly determined to not be credible,' Blanche told Bash.
Trump's Deputy Attorney General added that 'it turns out, there was a number of claims made by either … anonymous people or somebody, for example, calling and saying I used to have a roommate who told me this sensational story,' he said, before adding that much of those claims could not be investigated due to lack of details.
Blanche also denounced Bash's focus on Trump, stating that he didn't 'appreciate it being directed towards Donald J. Trump, because that pushes a narrative that is completely false.'
Trump was just one of many notable political and media figures who were named in the latest drop of the files, which were released on Friday and contained over 2,000 videos and 180,000 images.
The names of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and former President Bill Clinton are included in the latest drop of documents.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks with CNN's Dana Bash on State of The Union following the Justice Department's release of more than 3 million documents tied to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation
Footage from NBC News' archives shows Donald Trump apparently talking about women with Jeffrey Epstein, now a registered sex offender, at a party at Mar-a-Lago in November of 1992
The latest release of files came nearly six weeks after the DOJ's deadline to make the entire data set public under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which President Donald Trump signed into law in November.
Being named or pictured in the files is not an indication of wrongdoing.
Republicans on the House Oversight Committee led the advancement of two resolutions criminally charging former President Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary, with contempt of Congress for defying subpoenas to testify about their ties to Epstein as part of an ongoing congressional investigation last month.
The committee voted 34-8-2 in favor of Bill Clinton's resolution and 28-15-1 for Hillary Clinton's on the 21st of January.
Nine Democrats voted for Bill Clinton's contempt resolution while only three Democrats voted for Hillary's.
Committee Chairman James Comer succeeded in convincing a significant portion of members that the Clintons were defying the subpoenas.
Despite the Clintons' willingness to speak with committee staff and negotiate a date and format for questioning, Comer dismissed five months of talks as a 'stall tactic.' He accused them of trying to run out the clock on the Republican-led investigation until the next Congress.
To avoid contempt charges, the Clintons' lawyers offered Comer and ranking Democrat Robert Garcia a meeting with Bill Clinton alone in New York without an official transcript—an offer Comer rejected.
Former President Bill Clinton and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are seen in an undated photograph released by the Department Of Justice
A contempt vote before the full Republican-led House of Representatives looms this week, and could happen as soon as Wednesday, per Politico.
During his own Sunday CNN appearance, Congressman Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, said he will vote to hold both Clintons in contempt of Congress, but only if Attorney General Pam Bondi is also found to be in contempt.
'I will definitely vote no on any partisan measure, one side or the other,' Raskin stated, adding 'I want all of the information from everybody, and I want everybody to come forward and comply.'
An effort to add Bondi's name to the contempt charges for not releasing the Epstein files fast enough failed during the House Oversight Committee meeting last month.
