Katie Phang Goes Scorched Earth On Todd Blanche (10/5/26)

0:00What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. The battle between Katie Fang and Todd Blanche continues to rage on. And now Katie Fang has accused Attorney General of Todd Blanche of filing a motion that is completely full of BS, and she says the whole entire point is to try and stall the lawsuit and run out the clock. And boy that sounds exactly on brand, not only for Todd Blanche but the whole administration. It's always about loopholes and technicalities. That's their go-to when they're trying to defend their bullshit narrative about Jeffrey Epstein. But that narrative has lost a lot of its bite and a lot of people out there know, deep in their heart, that they're being dog-locked, and that the administration and Todd Blanche, well, not exactly being truthful. Today we have an article from Raw Story and the headline. Todd, which one is it?

1:00Attorney confronts Todd Blanche for latest Epstein Delay Rooze. This article was authored by David Edwards. Attorney Katie Fang accused Attorney General Todd Blanche of filing a motion that is chock full of lies, to stall her lawsuit, seeking unredacted files on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Fang made the accusation and a broadcast on our YouTube channel on Friday, a day after the Justice Department made a last-minute request to US District Judge Emmett Sullivan to postpone a deadline in the case. Sullivan had ordered Blanche to file a certified list of the administrative record, meaning the documents the department relied on, to decide what to release and redact by October 1st, according to the motion. Well how that work out. Todd Blanche does whatever he wants, and so does the whole entire Justice Department obviously. There's no checks and balances. These dudes are on a rough shot, over everybody, and then they jump on social media and talk about what a great job they're doing and how you should just believe the rhetoric.

2:04What you shouldn't do is believe you're lying eyes. It's actually pretty illuminating because it'll reveal again the process, the thought process, that went into the redactions and the withholdings for the files that have been publicly produced thus far, Fang said. Sullivan's September 16th order also required the department to hand over the full record by October 15th, according to a copy Fang showed on air. Well, I don't think that they have any motivation or any plans to give these documents up. I think they're going to fight this and fight this until they can't fight it anymore. And the only way that they're going to give this stuff up is if they're ordered to do it and even then we see what's going on. So there has to be an order with some finality, right? Listen, if you don't turn this shit over, that's it. It's time for contempt. And I would hope that Judge Sullivan is really thinking about it because in my opinion, this is blatant and it needs to be dealt with.

3:06Either way, we have Todd Blanche the day something's due, the night more technically that something's due. He's like, I need more time, Judge, Fang said, comparing Blanche to a child, asking him for more time at the last minute. Well, that's how they operate. What they want to do is get you scrambling. And if they wait until the last minute, then it's harder for the other team, the plaintiff in this case to file a motion. So what they're trying to do is win the docket game. And I just don't think that's going to work. Now if it was somebody else, maybe, right? Somebody that didn't have the resources that Katie Fang has, maybe, but she's a lawyer herself. She can look at these documents and know what's bunk and what's not or what can be challenged and what can't be. So it's not like Todd Blanche is dealing with just, you know, a regular member of the public. Now with that said, that doesn't mean Katie Fang is some kind of, you know, legal genius and she's invaluable. That's not the case either. And that's why we go through the court documents themselves.

4:09And when you look at the court documents that have been filed in this case, it's rather obvious which way the judge is leaning, but there's procedure and there are rings that you have to jump through. And unfortunately, that's where we're at. The department has sought delays before asking Sullivan in a July second filing to put on a hold for 60 days, any order to release more records. So the solicitor general could consider an appeal. Well, don't release any records because, you know, we need more time to scrub them. The solicitor general an appeal, really? The court just told you to turn these documents over multiple times. How many appeals do you get between Lane Maxwell and the Department of Justice and the appeals? I don't think there's any appeals left for anybody else. In the new motion, the Department accused Fang of trying to circumvent the Freedom of Information Act, the law the public uses to request government records by suing under

5:09the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which it said gives private citizens no right to sue. Line number one. I'm not suing pursuant to the Epstein Files Transparency Act, Fang said, I'm suing pursuant to the administrative procedure act, the APA. And this is where we get into the legalese, right? As a lawyer, sometimes you have to get creative and you have to find a pathway to victory that might not exist. So you have to, you know, start looking at different cases, precedent, the whole thing. And then you hope that the judge sides with what you're emotioning. In fact, if I wasn't suing pursuant to the APA, then why would there even be the requirement for him to produce the certified list in the administrative record? The Fangs ahead. And she's not wrong. I think that Todd Blanche and the DOJ is flying way too close to the Sun when it comes to this lawsuit. And I think that judge Sullivan ultimately is going to hold them accountable. The question is when, right?

6:10The motion also said the information Fang seeks is already available through FOIA. The statute it said she ought to use. Oh, yeah, because that's so successful. They give up so much information when we file FOIA requests about Epstein. Hey, dumb dumb. The whole entire reason that Congress needed to act was because the DOJ wasn't going to do it on their own. So save the whole entire, oh, well, you should go through FOIA. Well, that doesn't work. That chick gets laughed out of the room. Fangs had her legal team gave Judge Sullivan a Justice Department reply to a FOIA request in a June 24 filing. The reply said the Epstein Files Transparency Act directed a much broader and less redacted release of files than would have been made under the FOIA. Yeah, no shit. FOIA is a big joke, by the way. I love when people use FOIA like it's some holy grail. They're just going to give you what they want to give you. Nothing more and nothing less.

7:12So in other words, Todd Blanche's DOJ was telling somebody who was moving under FOIA for the records. You got to do it under the Transparency law, Fangs said. Well, Todd, which one is it, Fang asked? In Thursday's motion, the Department argued that preparing the record would waste the court's time and taxpayer resources because the case is likely to be dismissed. Well, that didn't seem to be the case with Judge Sullivan and what he had to say, likely to be dismissed. Maybe if you had a different judge, a favorable one, what's Eileen Cannon doing? Get the F-Addy here, Fangs said. Are you kidding me? You think it's a good use of taxpayers' time and money to be able to do illegal redactions and withholds that are now forcing me to have to go and sue? The motion also said there are no material facts in dispute, meaning the two sides agree on what happened and only legal questions remain. The entire lawsuit is premised on facts in dispute, Fangs said. I say that they have illegally withheld records and that they've illegally redacted records.

8:14He says no. That's that, not the case. Well, that's what the whole argument is, right? Did he or did he or the DOJ on lawfully redacted files? And I think they did. When you have three and a half million files that haven't been released and there's still no explanation on what has been released, what do you think people are going to start to think? Unless of course you're somebody that buys in to whatever the administration tells you, and if that's the case, there's no hope for you. Fangs said that her lawyer's reaction to the delay request was well hell no. In a statement the department included in its motion, the lawyer said the request should be denied on its face because a local court rule requires the certified list to be filed at the same time as any motion that could end the case. The department filed that kind of motion the same day, asking Sullivan in a separate filing to rule in its favor based only on the court papers filed so far.

9:16And look, there's going to be a lot of back and forth, right? Both sides are going to look for some rejectments, both sides are going to look to try and get the upper hand. But I think when you start parsing through all of the information, all of the evidence, and all of the motions, it's obvious to me that Katie Fang, has a pathway to victory. And I think that she has a judge that's sympathetic to her cause. And that's because I think Judge Sullivan understands the true nature of what's going on here and he understands the scope and he understands the implications. Because if the DOJ can hide information about this, what else are they hiding? I mean, we're talking about one of the most public facing cases maybe we've ever seen. And the DOJ is playing Koi. So can you imagine what they're doing with less known cases, with cases that don't have as much publicity? Pretty terrifying, isn't it? Just redact the victim's information, turn over the rest.

10:16Who are you protecting? Fang said, well, it starts with financial, and it ends with sector. Okay, that's who's being protected. But as far as this battle goes, there are still a ways to go. And there's going to be a flurry of filings coming both ways. And as those filings hit the docket, we'll get them added to the catalog. All the information that goes with this episode can be found in the description box.