The sole thing I care about in this kind of confirm-me political theater is what the victims think of it, and they're not happy:

One accuser, Dani Bensky, expressed frustration after the meeting, saying Blanche appeared to treat it as “a mere ‘check-the-box’ exercise intended to secure votes for his confirmation.”

“He danced around his wording, repeatedly interrupted us and could not commit to anything that would demonstrate good faith or begin to restore trust,” she said in an emailed statement. She said Blanche offered “no credible plan to investigate and pursue accountability” beyond Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by Epstein.

Earlier Thursday, Bensky told lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee that women harmed by Epstein repeatedly asked to meet with Blanche “through multiple channels and he never responded.”

“We deserve to be heard directly, not dismissed and ignored,” Bensky said.

I'm also thinking back to all the times Blanche said he couldn't meet with victims directly, but he could meet with their attorneys: he's still Trump's personal attorney, just like he said in his confirmation hearing, and is still thinking of this meeting in those terms.

(For those who are not aware of how that works in US law, if you are an attorney for someone involved or potentially involved in a lawsuit, like Blanche is on Trump's behalf as his personal attorney, then it is against legal rules to personally meet with others who are or might be involved in such lawsuits -- but you can meet with their attorneys. That's why Blanche kept coming back to "if they have counsel, I can meet with their counsel.")

I don't have high hopes, but I'm still hoping Cornyn's pissed off enough about the Trump-branded knife in his own back to vote no on this hopped-up ambulance chaser's confirmation.