Blanche appeared on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday as well as ABC’s This Week.
Trump’s deputy AG unable to explain why Tulsi Gabbard was present at politically-charged search of Georgia election office
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Blanche says President Donald Trump isn’t obsessed with campaigns
against his enemies – even as he admits it is DOJ’s priority
- In both conversations, he was unable to offer anything more than Trump’s own beliefs and whims for the new focus of the FBI, which under Joe Biden spent years prosecuting hundreds of participants in the violent January 6 attack on the Capitol, only to see them pardoned by Trump.
- He added that a federal magistrate judge had granted FBI agents a warrant to seize voting records from the 2020 election in Fulton County as part of a “criminal grand jury investigation.”
“I don't know
why the director was there.
But she is for sure a key part of our
efforts at election integrity and making sure we have free and fair
elections. She's an expert in that space,”
----said Blanche of Gabbard’s
involvement.
He added that she “can go where she needs to go”, but could
not answer what purpose the DNI was serving overseeing an FBI raid —
which falls under jurisdiction of the DOJ.
“She is not part of the grand jury investigation,”
----Blanche said.
The deputy attorney general also denied on CNN that Donald Trump was directly involved with the planning or approval of the raid, but could not say whether or not the president had been briefed on it by advisers like Attorney General Pam Bondi.
“This is a criminal investigation, so it’s tightly-held, as it must be under the law,” Blanche claimed. He would not answer what potential crime was under investigation, but added: “Election integrity is of the highest importance to the American people.”
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On
ABC, Blanche was pressed by George Stephanopoulos to explain the
agency’s focus in the wake of its apparent effort to reopen an
investigation into the 2020 election, and other politically-charged
cases, such as the failed efforts to indict James Comey and Letitia James,
two figures who respectively led efforts to investigate Trump’s 2016
campaign and business ventures.
- Blanche responded by confirming what critics of the Trump administration have complained about for months: That the Justice Department now primarily serves the president’s desires.
“If you're going to work in this department, you are going to execute
on the president's priorities,”
---Blanche said, responding to
Stephanopoulos’s question about the dismissals and resignations of
prosecutors who have refused to be involved in the president’s revenge
campaign.
He went on to deny that Trump was focused on such cases even as they have consumed his social media feed at times. . .
> Both investigations into the Trump team’s alleged efforts to persuade
officials to change vote totals were abandoned after Trump was
re-elected to the White House in 2024.
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