Todd Blanche faces Senate Judiciary Committee in confirmation hearing

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., on Wednesday that he agrees with him that Jeffrey Epstein was “a pig.”

“Well, first, we can agree, can we not? That Mr. Epstein was a pig,” Kennedy asked Blanche during his confirmation hearing.

“Yes,” Blanche responded.

“Other than to himself, who, if anyone else, did Mr. Epstein traffic young women to?” Kennedy then asked Blanche.

“From what we learned — from what we know, so when we know I mean what’s in the FBI files and what’s in the DOJ files. We did not identify evidence. And by we, I mean career prosecutors. Not me, not my leadership, but career prosecutors in New York and career prosecutors in Florida who worked this case hard, did identify other participants, some of whom, as has been discussed, were also victims themselves of Mr. Epstein,” Blanche said.

“But we did not have evidence, as of now, of other men who were, that were trafficked, that Epstein helped traffic. That does not mean it didn’t happen. And I want to be clear about that. It just means that we have evidence that the FBI gathered and that the Department of Justice gathered, and that’s the body of work that we have to work with. Which is why I said earlier, if there’s anybody out there, victim or otherwise, that has information, I beg them to come forward,” Blanche added.