There’s a running segment on The Daily Show during which the program “highlights” the bozos in the regime. While I’ve complained about others, I hadn’t had a chance to kvetch about acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, formerly FOTUS’s personal attorney.
You’ve probably heard about the “$1.8 billion fund created by the regime to pay people who claim mistreatment by the federal government appears to violate longstanding Justice Department standards and practices, as well as a policy directive issued by the administration last year, legal experts said.
“Todd Blanche… defended the fund at a Senate hearing, calling it “unusual” but insisting it was appropriate, reflective of past settlements.” Even former AG Pam Bondi would not have allowed such egregious actions.
Some of the Jan. 6 rioters could get large spoonfuls. But the Family looks to be the biggest beneficiaries of all: “As part of the settlement, the U.S. government is barred from prosecuting or further auditing the Trumps or their family business for any potential misconduct preceding the agreement. That saves them from penalties that some estimate could have reached $100 million or beyond. More than that, it functionally puts the family beyond the reach of the law in these tax cases. The order is intended to last, according to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, “FOREVER.”
This is A Department of Justice for an Age of Conspiracy Theories, per Quinta Jurecic of The Atlantic
Baseless allegations
“Not so very long ago, the Justice Department stood as a bulwark of facts against [djt’s] wildest claims. During his first term, a pattern emerged: Trump would make a bizarre assertion (say, that Barack Obama had illegally wiretapped Trump Tower), a litigant would point to this assertion in court to cast doubt on the Justice Department’s arguments, and DOJ attorneys would be forced to explain to an irritated judge that the president’s statements did not actually reflect the government’s position on the matter. Checking his comments against what a government lawyer was willing to swear in front of a judge was a handy way of demonstrating how FOTUS’s version of reality measured up to the truth.
In the second term, the Justice Department no longer maintains a polite distance from the baseless allegations he shares in his late-night Truth Social posts.”
Terry Moran is “righteously furious about the Slush Fund. And all the rest of the corruption cascading out of this administration. And, to me, some of the real villains here—aside from the president and his White House henchmen—are Trump’s lawyers, all the way up to the Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. A law license is a public trust. And I know that’s a pretty low bar much of the time. You can get a lawyer to make a case for you that the sky is green and the grass is blue, and they’ll do it without blushing. For a nice fee.
“But this? At some point, the bar should step in. If you are an American lawyer and you have played a part in the plundering of our Treasury with this ‘weaponization’ slush-fund scheme, maybe you should lose your license?”
“Reverse racism?”
Substack: Trump DOJ will avenge the KKK by taking out SPLC by Liz Dye. The racism is not subtle.
“The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche claimed.
“Flanked by embattled FBI Director Kash Patel, Blanche announced an 11-count federal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The civil rights organization that effectively brought down the Ku Klux Klan.
“The indictment is a grotesque attempt to recast white people as the real victims of racism. In the Trump DOJ’s telling, the civil rights advocates who spent decades mapping and dismantling the Klan are somehow its secret benefactors, ‘enriching’ themselves by secretly creating racism — something which is apparently in such short supply that it can only be generated with constant infusions of cash.”
Newsmax: In an early morning Truth Social post on Friday, FOTUS described the SPLC as “one of the greatest political scams in American history.” He declared that if the allegations prove true, the 2020 presidential election should be “permanently wiped from the books.”
Bogus charge
National Memo: “The absurdity of the bogus indictment is obvious to anyone – including former federal prosecutor Blanche – who knows how the FBI prosecutes organized crime, terrorism, narcotics smuggling, or violent extremism, in nearly every case, depending on paid informants. In fact, over the past few decades, the FBI and the Justice Department have relied on information from SPLC and its informants to jail violent Klansmen and Nazis. The indictment also charges that SPLC ‘concealed’ its identity behind false fronts when sending money to informants, just as the FBI and the Justice Department would do, so as not to expose their paid spies.
BTW, per WaPo: Elon Musk posted almost daily about race on X in recent months, a Washington Post analysis found, at times sharing views experts said echoed white supremacy.
As I noted, the trick with the library trustee vote for Albany Public Library on May 19 was that I found at least six of the candidates to be credible choices.
It’s ridiculous. Every time my wife and I went to Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, and came in through the main entrance, we passed by the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
Since practically the beginning of its run in 1979, I’ve been a massive fan of CBS Sunday Morning. It is the network’s weekly magazine on the air.
I always wondered how my baby sister, Marcia, became a biker babe in her 20s. She has forgotten more about motorcycles than I ever knew. Oddly, it seemed to have been instigated by our grandfather, McKinley Green.