In an interview with NBC's television program Meet the Press, Blanche states that the release of the 16 documents in total is not about protecting Trump but about protecting the victims of crime.
"When we hear from victim advocacy groups about these kinds of photos, we take them down and investigate. We are still investigating the photo. It will be put back up; the only question is whether the photo should be redacted," he said.
Since the country's Department of Justice began uploading documents from the investigations into the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, critical voices have become more numerous.
Many have pointed out that the material uploaded so far contains very little about Donald Trump, despite his long association with Jeffrey Epstein. Previous releases have included a large number of images and other material featuring the president.
Among the documents removed is a picture of a desk with several framed photographs, one of which features Trump.
Another part of the criticism concerns the fact that publication is slow – so far only a portion of the promised hundreds of thousands of documents has been uploaded.
This point of view is also rejected by Blanche.
The reason we are still reviewing documents and continuing with this process is simply about protecting the victims, he tells Meet the Press.
