{"id":17632,"date":"2026-07-15T15:16:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=17632"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:16:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:16:50","slug":"todd-blanche-faces-senate-judiciary-committee-in-confirmation-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=17632","title":{"rendered":"Todd Blanche faces Senate Judiciary Committee in confirmation hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><!--(--><!--(--><!----><!--)--><!--(--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., on Wednesday that he agrees with him that Jeffrey Epstein was \u201ca pig.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--)--><!--(--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>\u201cWell, first, we can agree, can we not? That Mr. Epstein was a pig,\u201d Kennedy asked Blanche during his confirmation hearing. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--)--><!--(--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>\u201cYes,\u201d Blanche responded. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--)--><!--(--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>\u201cOther than to himself, who, if anyone else, did Mr. Epstein traffic young women to?\u201d Kennedy then asked Blanche.  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--)--><!--(--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>&#8220;From what we learned &#8212; from what we know, so when we know I mean what&#8217;s in the FBI files and what&#8217;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,\u201d Blanche said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--)--><!--(--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>\u201cBut 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&#8217;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&#8217;s the body of work that we have to work with. Which is why I said earlier, if there&#8217;s anybody out there, victim or otherwise, that has information, I beg them to come forward,\u201d Blanche added. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--)--><!--)--><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., on Wednesday that he agrees&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}