Vaughn Hillyard: Polling Suggests That 50% of Republicans Are Not Satisfied with This White House’s Handling of Epstein Files

WELKER: “Vaughn, and you’ve been covering this story for quite some time. As you know, there are plenty of conspiracy theories swirling around the Epstein matter. For those who believe in those conspiracy theories, does having the president’s former personal attorney, who is now the Deputy Attorney General, run the risk of only adding to that air, to compounding those conspiracy theories?”

HILLYARD: “Right. These are the same allies and base of supporters that have long defended the president through his criminal indictments, the hush money payment trial of which Donald Trump was found guilty, but the lead defense attorney was, in fact, Todd Blanche, the man that was conducting this interview here today. And in so many ways, I think for the first time in the last decade of Donald Trump’s political relevance, you see skepticism not only among voters. You know, polling suggests that 50 percent of Republicans were not satisfied with this White House’s handling of the Epstein files, but also Republican lawmakers, including James Comer, the chair of the House Oversight Committee, who has said that a pardon or a commutation would be unacceptable under any circumstances for Ghislaine Maxwell, and that they want the records themselves of the Epstein files, and that effectively going down and having that interview conversation with Ghislaine Maxwell isn’t good enough for House Republicans and that they want to see the files themselves. There is pressure that has been very clearly made, will not relent until more answers are provided, some of which the White House has been hesitant to give to this point.”