A Trumpy CNN pundit’s attempt to defend the Justice Department’s sloppy handling of the Epstein files backfired spectacularly when he was called out for an embarrassing flaw in his own argument.

Scott Jennings jumped in on NewsNight With Abby Phillip late Thursday when a fellow panelist pointed out that Americans don’t know “who to trust” when it comes to the Trump administration’s claims on the Epstein files. Jennings immediately tried to steer the discussion to Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna, who he claimed had “doxed” a handful of individuals by telling Congress he’d seen their names in the Epstein files.

“What did you think about when your colleague Ro Khanna went down to the House floor and doxed four people who apparently had nothing to do with this whatsoever?” he asked Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi. “Did you think that was a good use of time?”

Khanna and Rep. Thomas Massie reviewed unredacted documents as part of their bipartisan campaign to get the Department of Justice to rerelease some files, claiming details had been unlawfully hidden from the public.

Earlier this month, Khanna named six “wealthy, powerful men” whose names had previously been redacted from the public files. Two of the men, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem and Leslie Wexner, have been identified. But four of them proved baffling, as they appeared to have no public profile.

After Khanna demanded answers on who the four individuals were and why they had been redacted, the DOJ said they had no connection to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and had merely appeared in a photo lineup in the Southern District of New York.

MAGA figures were quick to blast Khanna for what they described as vilifying innocent people, and Jennings echoed that line, accusing Khanna of doxing.

The conversation went around in circles as Jennings clashed with members of the panel, later arguing, “It has nothing to do with redactions. It has to do with the fact that a member of Congress went down and doxed people who did nothing wrong and had nothing to do with it.”

The conversation erupted again, culminating in a final word from Phillip, whose voice won out above the free-for-all. “Revealing people’s names is not doxing,” she said. “It is not doxing—let me just make this point. It is not doxing to name a person, it is not what doxing is.”

Merriam-Webster says the definition of “dox” is “to publicly identify or publish private information about (someone), especially as a form of punishment or revenge.”