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Annie Farmer, a survivor of sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein, called on US senators to reject Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, Todd Blanche, his former criminal defense lawyer, after he agreed to meet her and other victims of the late sex offender who socialized with Trump for nearly two decades.
“After meeting with Todd Blanche, I feel even more confident in urging senators to vote against his confirmation as the United States’ Attorney General,” Farmer said in a statement.
I found him abrasive, condescending, and intentionally noncommittal to survivors – a marked contrast to his public testimony during his confirmation hearing.
While quick to point to the failures of previous administrations, he refused to take accountability for mistakes made under his own leadership. Specifically, he would not commit to an inquiry into why my sister Maria Farmer’s 1996 report went uninvestigated; he refused to release documents related to internal discussions about charging Epstein that would provide important clarification about previous errors, and his explanations for his nine-hour interview with Ghislaine Maxwell and her subsequent transfer to a less secure facility were wholly dissatisfactory and contrived. Continue reading…
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