Blanche appears to implicate Trump live on air.

In this video starting round the 5:20 mark. Transcript below:

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But what is interesting about the idea
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that they're redacting based on victims
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being shown in photos is what Todd
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Blanch had to say right here when he
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just admits that Donald Trump assaulted
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these victims produced.
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Mr. Blanch, I want to follow up with you
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on what you just said. You were
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referencing the 15 files released
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Friday. They disappeared from DOJ's uh
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website uh yesterday uh including this
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photo of what looks like a desk with a
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drawer open containing photos of Donald
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Trump. Just to be very clear, to put a
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fine point on it, why were these files
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taken down? You're saying it was at the
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direction of a judge.
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Well, you you can see in that photo
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there's photographs of women. And so we
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learned after releasing that photograph
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that there were concerns about those
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about th those women and the fact that
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we had put that photo up. So we pulled
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that photo down. It has nothing to do
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with President Trump. There are dozens
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of photos of President Trump already
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released to the public seeing him with
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Mr. Epstein. He has said that in the '9s
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and early 2000s he socialized with him.
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So, the absurdity of us pulling down a
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photo, a single photo of because
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President Trump was in it is laughable.
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And the fact that everybody's trying to
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act like that's the case is a reflection
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of of their true motivation. But, but
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the reality is anybody, any victim, any
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victim's lawyers, any victim rights
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group can reach out to us and say, "Hey,
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Department of Justice, there's there's a
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document, there's a photo, there's
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something within the Epstein files that
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identifies me." and we will then of
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course pull that off and and investigate
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it.
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Are you saying that one or more of the
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women in one of the photos or or several
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of the photos is a victim or a survivor
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of Jeffrey Epstein and that's why you
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took the those files down and will they
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be put back up?
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No, that's not that's not what I'm
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saying. We of course if we knew that if
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we had uh if we believed that that
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photograph contained a a survivor um we
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wouldn't have have put it up in the
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first place without redacting the the
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faces. But notwithstanding what we
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believe we don't have perfect
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information. And so when when we hear
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from victim's rights groups about this
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type of photograph, we pull it down and
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investigate. We're still investigating
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that photo. The photo will go back up.
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Um and the only question is whether
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there will be redactions on the photo.
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And of course, if there are survivors in
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in any of the photos, we will redact
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them um as Congress expects us to do, as
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President Trump expects us to do, and as
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the attorney general and director Patel
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have directed the department to do.
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Okay. So, if Donald Trump was pictured
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being grabby and weird towards Epstein's
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victims, and these are people who want
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their identity protected because in some
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way they were abused by these powerful
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men surrounding Epstein, of course,
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including Donald Trump, then isn't the
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admission there from Todd Blanch that
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Donald Trump
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was perpetrating these assaults? Isn't
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Isn't that the only conclusion that if
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the women Donald Trump had taken
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pictures with
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reported abuse
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that the DOJ struck Donald Trump's name
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from in those reports
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of abu? It doesn't isn't Todd Blanch
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just saying that Donald Trump was an
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abuser that the women he was pictured
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with some of which we we couldn't tell
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because a lot of those photos were
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covered up could have been minors. He's
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saying that those are victims, the women
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Donald Trump was pictured with. So if
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you're saying, "No, no, no. Well, we
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didn't redact those photos because Trump
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was in them. We redacted them because
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there were survivors in them." Were they
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survivors of Donald Trump or Jeffrey
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Epstein? Of course, we don't know these
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things because the administration
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refuses to tell us anything.
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But this is the best assumption. Truly,
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this is the only thing that we can
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assume at this point is that that is
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why, according to Todd Blanch's logic,
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at least they redacted the photos.