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“…The O'Keefe Media Group, a far-right media organization, secretly recorded acting deputy Joseph Schnitt's comments and published them on Wednesday, in a move that represents just how large a rift the Epstein case has created between President Trump's administration and his MAGA base.
- "They'll redact every Republican or conservative person in those files, leave all the liberal, Democratic people," he told the reporter, who was undercover during the encounter, according to the video.
- In the video, he also called Attorney General Pam Bondi "a yes person," adding that she "wants whatever Trump wants."…”
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In a statement addressed to the DOJ's acting director, Schnitt said that he had no idea he was being recorded and that he met the O'Keefe reporter — who he said was pretending to be an au pair — on Hinge.
- Schnitt said that the comments to the reporter were based on what he had "learned in the media" and not from his work at the DOJ.
- "Had I a clue, the first date would have ended immediately and there never would have been a second one," Schnitt wrote.…”