The Department of Justice (DOJ) is pushing back on comments made by a senior official in a hidden-camera video recorded and published by far-right operative James O’Keefe in which the official weighs in on the case of disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Joseph Schnitt, a deputy chief of staff at the Office of Enforcement Operations, was caught on camera suggesting that the government would redact the name of any Republican incriminated in the Epstein files and positing that Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell was relocated to a lower security prison as part of a deal. Schnitt’s comments were published by O’Keefe on Thursday.

Both Schnitt and the Justice Department have since sought to downplay the significance of Schnitt’s comments and explain the circumstances around t

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