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Todd Blanche should not be confirmed as Attorney General. He should be disbarred.Blanche is arguably the most corrupt AG ever
Donald Trump is nominating his personal lawyer and current Acting Attorney Todd Blanche to be his Attorney General. Here’s the reality: Todd Blanche should NOT be getting confirmed as Attorney General. He should be getting disbarred! In fact, he should be investigated for potential crimes. That is not just my view but also Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa) who told me point blank about Blanche, “He should be disbarred, and disbarred is not enough.” We’ve never seen an AG as openly corrupt as Todd Blanche whose only focus is serving Trump. In a nutshell, Blanche is the architect of the largest cover up of sex crimes in US history in connection with Jeffrey Epstein’s child rape and sex trafficking ring. He is the reason Epstein’s co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell is in a cushy Club Fed. Blanche is why Trump is getting immunity from IRS audits which will mean he does for not pay in the area of $100 million in taxes to the United States. And he’s also why we are seeing the criminal prosecution of Trump’s political critics from James Comey to Tish James and more. Let’s break it down in more detail. First, as to Epstein, DOJ’s own memo last year told us there are more than 1,000 victims. We know some victims were children while others were women. We have heard countless survivors publicly demand justice. But what has Blanche’s response been? We have to “move on.” And he recently reiterated that on Fox News saying, “Look, the Epstein files has been a saga that’s lasted for the entire for the past year, and what happened when the president signed the transparency act is the Department of Justice has now released all the files with respect to the Epstein saga and the attorney general.” Blanche added, “I think that to the extent that the Epstein files was a part of the past year of this Justice Department, it should not be a part of anything going forward.” So to Blanche the “saga” is that he had to answer questions in the protection of Trump for a few months. In reality, the saga has been the horrors the victims endured, the emotional distress they carried for decades—all made worse by no justice. But Blanche’s misconduct goes beyond refusing to prosecute powerful men involved in these crimes—many who were Trump’s friends. As we learned from Pam Bondi’s testimony to Congress last week, Blanche “was in charge of the process and the entire release of the Epstein files.” Bondi added that she did not “conduct that document review myself” and told the panel that she “delegated oversight over this process” to Blanche. So that means the massive redactions by the DOJ before releasing the files together with their withholding of Trump related documents is 100% on Blanche. One of the most egregious cover ups to protect Trump was that Blanche withheld documents concerning Trump allegedly forcing a 13-year-old to perform oral sex. These allegations--contained in three different FBI interviews—also tell us that Trump punched the child on the side of her head after she allegedly “bit the s--t out of” his penis. After the press discovered this cover up, Blanche said he had not released those records because they were coded as ‘duplicative.’ This raises even more red flags because DOJ originally said there were six million Epstein documents in their possession. However, they only released three million claiming the records in their possession were “duplicative.” How many of those allegedly duplicative records actually contain information about Trump?! We also know from Pam Bondi that it was Todd Blanche who moved Ghislaine Maxwell- Trump’s good friend and co-conspirator of Epstein--to a cushy prison after he interviewed her. This new minimum-security prison allows prisoners the freedom to roam the facility’s expansive grounds with limited to no perimeter fencing to pen them in. There are gardening opportunities for the green-fingered criminals. They even the “puppy program” -- which involves playing with a 12-week-old Labrador all day. This was all part of the cover up to keep Maxwell quiet. Then there is Blanche agreeing to Trump’s demand for $1.8 billion slush fund and giving him and his family immunity for $100 million plus in back taxes. The cover story for this was a scam lawsuit by Trump over his IRS returns being released back in 2020. This lawsuit was so bogus the federal judge handling it demanded Blanche explain why it was not a sham given Trump was suing the very government he runs?! But Blanche rushed to settle the case just two days before the judge’s deadline. (We will see if the slush fund is really being abandoned.) And then we have Blanche prosecuting Trump’s critics as Trump has demanded. The most recent case came as Blanche was serving as Acting AG and he prosecuted James Comey for posting an image a seashells that read “86 47.” Blanche rushing to charge Comey after Bondi failed is a big part of why Trump wants he as permanent Attorney General. We have had corrupt Attorneys General before. The most infamous being Richard Nixon’s Attorney General John Mitchell who became the first U.S. Attorney General to be convicted of a felony. He was sentenced to prison for his role in planning, approving, and covering up the Watergate break-in. Yet nothing compares to Blanche’s corruption. In the case of Mitchell, he committed his crimes and misconduct AFTER he was confirmed as Attorney General. In the case of Todd Blanche, his crimes and misconduct have come BEFORE the Senators are set to consider his confirmation. Will this be enough to deter the GOP Senators and John Fetterman—who voted to confirm Pam Bondi—to say no? Unlikely. But it doesn’t mean Blanche won’t be disbarred! Below is my interview of Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa) on why Blanche should never be confirmed as AG. She is a real fighter! 
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