Domenico Montanaro

And it feels like the Justice Department, frankly, wants to, quote, move on also.

And, you know, the person who's been most out front on talking about this has been the deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche, who, again, was a personal attorney of the president's before becoming deputy attorney general.

And, you know, listen to the way he talked about this on Fox News.

There's a big difference between how –

Todd Blanch is talking about the Epstein files and real things that came of this and real victims of crimes of powerful men with money, influence and power versus, say, what Donald Trump has wanted in retribution campaigns against some people with often flimsy cases like James Comey, the former FBI director.

And there's a big difference in how they're, quote unquote, investigating and then sort of feeling like it's being dismissed and saying it's not a crime to party with Mr. Epstein.

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And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent.

Before people jump to any belief that there's merit to a lot of this.

One of those conspiracies that you brought up, Rudy Giuliani, the president's then lawyer, was ordered to pay $148 million to two elections workers because he accused them of bringing ballots in on suitcases.

So people have been looking to put something on Fulton County, to put something on Georgia because Trump wants legitimacy.

He lost the state.

It has been litigated.

There have been dozens of court cases across the country.

All that the Trump campaign lost as far as whether or not there are any ballots that were determined to be unlawful.

And this is just something that he has still not been able to get a win for.

And he's continued to be irritated by the fact that he lost the state election.

And that he lost the 2020 election.

I also think it's important to point out that state officials were Republicans who were running this election.