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While quick to point to the failures of previous administrations, he refused to take accountability for mistakes made under his own leadership. His evasiveness felt like a deliberate attempt to claim the Attorney General’s office is powerless in this matter. By passing the buck once again, he is leaving survivors trapped in the same endless loop of searching for answers and receiving none.
- ▪While quick to point to the failures of previous administrations, he refused to take accountability for mistakes made under his own leadership.
- ▪His evasiveness felt like a deliberate attempt to claim the Attorney General’s office is powerless in this matter.
- ▪By passing the buck once again, he is leaving survivors trapped in the same endless loop of searching for answers and receiving none.
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12m ago20.25 EDTAfter meeting Todd Blanche, Epstein survivor urges senators to reject him as attorney generalAnnie 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.She continued: double quotation markI found him abrasive, condescending, and intentionally noncommittal to survivors – a marked contrast to his public testimony during his confirmation hearing.
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