Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said “bring it on,” in response to members of Congress suggesting holding DOJ officials in contempt, or referring obstruction charges or impeachment, for failure to comply with demands to publish all of the remaining Jeffrey Epstein files. You can see the full interview here: DOJ’s Todd Blanche: President Trump Has “Nothing To Hide” In Epstein Files

KRISTEN WELKER: Okay, Mr. Blanche, you talk about the reaction from Capitol Hill. Let me allow you to respond to some of it. Congressman Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna, the authors of the Epstein bill, say the partial release of files fails to comply with the law. They say they are considering looking into the possibility of impeachment proceedings, contend even criminal referrals for obstruction of justice for DOJ officials. Do you take these threats seriously? DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL TODD BLANCHE: Not even a little bit. Bring it on. We are doing everything we’re supposed to be doing to comply with the statute. And Congressman Massie and these other Congressmen that are coming out speaking negatively about Director Patel and the attorney general have no idea what they’re talking about. They know the work that we’re going through. They know what we’re doing to protect victims. I mean, just think about what we’re doing. You’re talking about a million or so pages of documents. Virtually all of them contain victim information. So listen, the idea that Attorney General Bondi would ever let a single piece of paper go out of this department that contains victim information is something they know we won’t do. And the fact that they’re threatening to impeach her for protecting victims is a reflection of where their head’s at. It’s not a reflection of this department. We are complying with the statute. We will continue to comply with the statute. And if by complying with the statute we don’t produce everything on Friday, we produce things next week and the week after, that’s still compliance with the statute. There is well settled law as they should know that in a case like this where we’re required to produce within a certain amount of time, but also comply with other laws like redacting information, that very much trumps. Redacting information very much some deadline in the statute.

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