Victims of Jeffrey Epstein blasted Todd Blanche after meeting with the acting attorney general at the Department of Justice as he seeks Senate confirmation as the permanent U.S. attorney general. Victims called Blanche condescending and evasive, saying he seemed to be motivated to have the Thursday afternoon meeting solely to get his nomination by President Donald Trump advanced by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sen. Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican who had warned that he would not vote to advance Blanche’s nomination out of the committee, praised him for the sit-down. 
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