Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) claimed on CNN on Monday that President Donald Trump was enthusiastically in favor of releasing the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking files, despite his weekslong efforts to keep them under wraps — and anchor Erin Burnett had to cut her off as she blamed former President Joe Biden and the media for the Epstein victims being silenced.

"I'm glad that the president is on board with everyone voting to release the Epstein files," said Mace. "This is huge and historic. We could have done this under President Biden, but Democrats chose not to do that ... And the thing that I'm really frustrated with, with the media right now is that they want to focus on President Trump, and they're not telling the stories of these women who risked it all their careers, their livelihood, their futures to come forward. The courage that it took. Those are the stories we should be telling right now, not the clickbait of what Trump said or he said, she said. I want to hear their stories, because getting this kind of justice, getting this kind of thing, this evidence to come out, voting on it, it's never happened before."

Burnett butt in to defend her program from the accusations.

"Well, I'm quite proud that on this program we've had every victim of Jeffrey Epstein that was willing to speak. But the President of the United States did say over the weekend that 'only a very bad or stupid Republican' would fall into the 'trap' of voting for the release of the files," said Burnett.

"And he's come around," said Mace. "Biden wouldn't do anything ... Trump has come around and Biden never came around. Biden never gave these women a chance. And that's the story you all aren't telling."

Burnett quickly stepped in to point out that much of the investigation itself happened under Biden.

"They had the investigation into Ghislaine Maxwell, which resulted in her being put in prison, and then she was moved to a minimum security prison in a residential neighborhood after meeting with Todd Blanche."

But Mace tried to deflect Burnett's counter.

"Victims who come forward, they're sued, they're smeared, they're defamed in the press," she said. "And that kind of thing has to stop, because that's why women don't come forward. Because the way we're treated in the media domain, the public domain and social media."

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