Hmmmmm?
REALLY?
You mean his Boss, the Convicted Felon President isn’t gonna have the last word with Todd Blache, who used to be Trump’s private attorney?
This we gotta see….
I mean Trump IS beating on the US Attorney for DC because she can’t indict a innocent guy in the Lincoln Poll case?
How long ya got Mr. Attorney General working FOR Donald Trump?
Or?….. Was your speech just a media sound bite?
Newly confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche’s 19-minute address to the Justice Department’s workforce Thursday was striking more for what he didn’t say than what he did.
There were no strident attacks on the Biden administration’s stewardship of the department, no denunciations of “activist” federal judges and no calls to end the weaponization of law enforcement — all topics that have featured prominently in some of Blanche’s public remarks as a senior department official over the past year and a half.
Instead, Blanche emphasized to DOJ employees that he was one of them, committed to continuing work the Justice Department has done for generations, often with little change from administration to administration.
“I promise you that I will lead this department with integrity. I promise you that I will focus on our core mission, which is to uphold the rule of law fairly and impartially, to keep this great country safe and to protect the rights of every citizen in this country. And I think about integrity, … it’s a promise that we’re going to uphold the law without fear or favor,” he said.
That’s a promise that many federal judges and Democratic lawmakers, including some of their Republican colleagues, have found wanting in recent months as the Justice Department launched prosecutions of some of President Donald Trump’s perceived political enemies like former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Since Trump came into office, DOJ has also lost thousands of attorneys, many of whom have said they observed increasing politicization of the department.
But Blanche’s message Thursday was one of professionalism and an embrace of internal disagreement, even of employees with “different politics.”
“What I have seen over the past 30 years working intimately with this department is that this department succeeds when people of different backgrounds, different politics, different life experiences put the mission of the department first,” the attorney general said to hundreds of staffers gathered in the department’s Great Hall and thousands more watching on video feeds across the country.
“I think disagreement is extraordinarily healthy. I think disagreement is the only way that we make the best decisions as a department, … and I want to encourage everybody to do that,” he added.
Critics said Blanche’s remarks Thursday were sharply at odds with the actions of DOJ’s management since January 2025…..
image….Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks to staffers at the Justice Department headquarters on Aug. 13, 2026.Josh Gerstein/POLITICO
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