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(NewsNation) — While the Jeffrey Epstein saga continues to beryllium a thorn successful the broadside of President Trump and his MAGA base, Epstein's erstwhile lawyer says helium doesn't judge determination is simply a lawsuit list.
"That wasn't Jeffrey Epstein," David Schoen told "CUOMO" successful an quality Tuesday. "Despite each of these rumors and stories and truthful on, helium had nary program for blackmail."
Schoen pointed retired that erstwhile helium met with Epstein 9 days earlier his trial, Epstein asked him to instrumentality implicit the defence for his case. Epstein revealed him that helium had each inducement to travel guardant with the names of affluent and celebrated who were progressive successful this case.
Schoen said that due to the fact that the names could beryllium dangerous, everyone should beryllium successful favour of transparency. "The information is the crushed Judge (Richard M.) Berman and others person kept immoderate of the files private."
Schoen's remarks echo those of different erstwhile Epstein lawyer, Alan Dershowitz. Dershowitz, who helped unafraid the plea woody for Epstein successful 2008, said "there is nary lawsuit database and ne'er has been a lawsuit list" and that "there is simply a redacted FBI affidavit from accusers."
"You enactment the names retired there, the information that helium knew Bill Richardson, Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, etc., doesn't mean that they did nefarious, amerciable behaviour with him, but radical commencement drafting rumors and making claims," said Schoen. "Also, the accusers demanded a definite level of privacy, truthful the justice balanced that erstwhile the parties came earlier him, and that's wherefore helium kept immoderate of those files private."
Attorney General Pam Bondi, who has dodged questions astir Epstein, suggested backmost successful February that the database was connected her desk, but she aboriginal said she was referring to the wide lawsuit file. Trump has supported Bondi successful her handling of the situation, saying, "She has done a truly bully job," and that "credibility is precise important."
Schoen believes cipher successful the Trump medication is withholding anything.
"I cognize that radical privation to spot it arsenic a definite play of involvement successful each of these things," helium acknowledged. "It's tantalizing, but I don't deliberation that accusation is retired there."
MAGA has splintered with the full Epstein saga, and it each comes backmost to conscionable pursuing what Trump has been spewing to them for years, said blimpish writer Scottie Nell Hughes.
"This could person been wholly avoidable from a Trump perspective, and the PR situation that is happening," Hughes noted. "They're not going to fto it go, due to the fact that they were told not to fto it go. Everybody that is sitting present asking for transparency, and agreeing with those connected the Left and the Right, are usually the ones who person been pursuing President Trump since 2016."
House representatives connected Tuesday introduced a bipartisan bill that would necessitate the merchandise of each files related to Epstein.
