MaddowBlog-Deputy AG Blanche contradicts Trump, adding to systemic credibility concerns
Facing an intensifying scandal, Todd Blanche began Sunday with dwindling credibility. He ended the day with none.
Deputy AG Blanche contradicts Trump, adding to systemic credibility concerns
— (@enuffsaysv.bsky.social) 2025-12-23T01:10:47.035Z
Facing an intensifying scandal, Todd Blanche began Sunday with dwindling credibility. He ended the day with none.
Read in MS NOW: apple.news/AykiqsRvYQse...
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥no one in the regime has credibility about anything at all🔥🔥🔥
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/deputy-ag-blanche-contradicts-trump-adding-to-systemic-credibility-concerns
But one exchange stood out to me. The New York Times reported:
Kristen Welker, the moderator on ‘Meet the Press,’ raised the criminal cases filed against the former F.B.I. director James Comey and New York’s attorney general, Letitia James — charges that were dismissed last month when a judge found that the prosecutor who brought them had been unlawfully put in that job by the Trump administration.
That appointment was made, and those criminal charges were filed, after Mr. Trump forced out his own prosecutor in Virginia, Erik S. Siebert, who had concluded that the evidence did not support charges against either Mr. Comey or Ms. James.
Asked whether the Justice Department was taking directions from the president about whom to prosecute, Blanche was incredulous. “No, of course we’re not,” he said.
The deputy attorney general quickly added, as part of an apparent effort to set the record straight, “Mr. Siebert wasn’t fired because he refused to bring cases. He resigned.”
WELKER: Is the DOJ taking directions about who to prosecute from President Trump?
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-12-21T15:28:14.780Z
BLANCHE: No. Of course we're not. And also, Mr. Siebert wasn't fired because he refused to bring cases. He resigned.
There’s overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
NBC News reported over the summer, for example, that the White House was leaning heavily on Siebert, at the time the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, for brazenly corrupt reasons: Team Trump wanted him to go after Comey and James, not because they’d done anything wrong but because the president saw them as political foes......
MS NOW’s Ken Dilanian explained soon after, “the United States is confronting something we have never seen before: a president essentially ordering his DOJ to charge someone with a crime, regardless of whether the people whose job it is to evaluate the case think there is insufficient evidence.”
Put another way, some presidents get rid of officials for being corrupt; this president forced out Siebert for not being corrupt.
Three months later, the Trump-appointed deputy attorney general appeared on “Meet the Press,” pretended the president had nothing to do with the Justice Department’s prosecutorial decisions and, despite extensive evidence, including Trump’s own public comments, told a national television audience that an ousted prosecutor wasn’t actually fired, even though anyone who remembers the events that unfolded in September knows better.
Blanche began Sunday with dwindling credibility. He ended the day with none.
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Granted his stated excuse was different than "because he didn't file these cases", it was some BS about him having the backing of VA Senators (he's not THAT much of an idiot to not put forth a different excuse), but EVERYONE KNEW.
These people are such a fucking clownshow. And not a funny one 
