Todd Blanche HAS and continues to work for Donald Trump, a guy who likes to have his staff do WHATEVER ‘HE’ Wants….
He doesn’t much care about rules , or even the law…..
Blanche IS fronting….
The media IS gonna be on his case about his follow thru ….
Todd Blanche, the newly confirmed attorney general, refused to say on Sunday that he would always act independently of White House control but claimed during an interview that President Trump has “never” demanded he prosecute specific people.
Mr. Blanche, displaying a greater ease in fielding a variety of pointed questions than his predecessor, Pam Bondi, sought to balance his loyalty to the president and a commitment to the evenhanded administration of justice during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“There’s a big difference between saying we will always do our job and investigate any case, and act independently of the White House,” Mr. Blanche said when pressed to pledge his independence by the show’s host, Kristen Welker.
“No, I’m not going to pledge that, and no attorney general should ever pledge that,” he said.
But he suggested in another interview that he was not afraid to push back. “It’s my job to talk to him about those issues, which I have done for many years and I will continue to do,” he said on “Fox News Sunday.”
Mr. Blanche told NBC that Mr. Trump had never asked him to do anything illegal or unethical — and claimed that reports of White House meddling in the department were overhyped.
“There is this extraordinarily false narrative that the president wakes up in the morning and calls me and says, ‘Todd, go prosecute X or Y,’” Mr. Blanche said. “He does not do that. He has never done that. He will never do that.”
In September, Mr. Trump demanded the immediate prosecution of several adversaries in a social media post aimed at Ms. Bondi. He fired Ms. Bondi in April, in part because he thought she was moving too slowly in prosecuting his perceived enemies whom he had identified, with scant or nonexistent evidence, as being criminals….
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Mr. Blanche emphasized his commitment to focusing on law and order during a speech at Justice Department headquarters last week, seeking to shift the narrative away from the political maelstrom that has engulfed the department during his tenure…..
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