As hard as this is to believe, Blanche will be worse than Bondi.

[AntonToo]

You’re claiming these protesters were “communicating” with President Trump?

Silly, "targeted Republicans" refers to Congressional Republicans who's phone records were subpoened as part of J6 investigation.

 

[AntonToo]

Playing a sped up clip doesn’t make protesters “insurrectionists” trying to “overturn the election”.

But it does make them violent law breakers you dummy. Which is WHY they were apropriately prosecuted.

Your claim that these were harmless protestors or that DOJ somehow needed Biden's orders to bring charges against these crimes in broad daylight is INSANE.

Aren't you tired of shitting yourself in public just to make excuses for your Dear Leader?

 

[theHawk]

Funny you lefties don’t hold that same standard to BLM lawbreakers.

Many of these people were not given a trial, held in solitary confinement as if they were international terrorists.

But it does make them violent law breakers you dummy. Which is WHY they were apropriately prosecuted.

Your claim that these were harmless protestors or that DOJ somehow needed Biden's orders to bring charges against these crimes in broad daylight is INSANE.

 

[AntonToo]

Funny you lefties don’t hold that same standard to BLM lawbreakers.

What's funny is you now grabbing your bag of whatabouts because you know you are full of shit.

BLM lawbreakers were condemned by Biden, rejected as violent criminals, none of them got pardons. Go fish nutbag,

 

[AntonToo]

Many of these people were not given a trial, held in solitary confinement as if they were international terrorists.

Dumbass, name one.

I've asked before, none of you bs eating dupes can name one who didn't get due process. Not one.

 

[berg80]

Isn't another word for this bribery?

U.S. Set to Drop Charges Against Indian Billionaire Accused of Fraud​

When the Justice Department indicted India’s richest man in the final weeks of the Biden administration, prosecutors described an “elaborate” bribery scheme involving “corruption and fraud at the expense of U.S. investors.”

Now, according to several people with knowledge of the case, the Justice Department is planning to drop the charges altogether.

The reversal came after the Indian billionaire, Gautam Adani, hired a new legal team led by Robert J. Giuffra Jr., one of President Trump’s personal lawyers and the co-chairman of the prominent firm Sullivan & Cromwell.

Mr. Giuffra’s efforts on Mr. Adani’s behalf culminated in a previously unreported meeting last month at the Justice Department’s headquarters in Washington, according to people familiar with the meeting. Mr. Giuffra ticked through about 100 slides outlining why prosecutors lacked basic evidence, as well as the jurisdiction even to bring the case, one of the people said.

Another slide also made an unusual offer: If prosecutors dropped the charges, Mr. Adani would be willing to invest $10 billion in the American economy and create 15,000 jobs, echoing a pledge he had made in the wake of Mr. Trump’s election.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/nyregion/gautam-adani-billionaire-doj-trump.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20260514&instance_id=175595&nl=breaking-news&regi_id=65145149&segment_id=219848&user_id=fecdfdffdaaa11107b72f0f4f6e429cc

 

[berg80]

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., grilled Blanche over the department’s mass cancellation of community violence intervention grants, intended to fund collaborations between civilians and victim service providers to devise strategies for reducing community violence, often without involving police.

Approximately $169 million in grants for those efforts were among those abruptly cancelled by the Justice Department last year, according to a report compiled by the Council on Criminal Justice, a nonpartisan think tank. One of those, Gillibrand pointed out, was a more than $4 million grant allocated to an organization in New York dedicated to preventing youth violence.

“Did you analyze whether this program was working before you slashed the funding?” Gillibrand asked.

“Yes, there’s still a ton of funding for those programs,” Blanche said.

“Not the ones in New York,” she replied. “You just deleted them.”

Blanche disputed the characterization that the department “deleted” the funds, saying the DOJ is “not seeking funding for it” in the future.

Acting AG Todd Blanche testifies before Congress on nearly $1.8B fund tied to Trump allies

Track live updates as acting AG Todd Blanche testifies before Congress on the DOJ oversight, and Trump allies’ $1.8B anti-weaponization fund.

www.ms.now

Todd is on the Hill defending the unprecedentedly corrupt $1.7B slush fund.

 

[Dekster]

There is a school of thought that goes along the lines of the way the government is set up, any order from above is per se legal unless it explicitly is prohibited in the constitution so the only justification for not obeying them is if they are immoral. It is the same rationale used in the military "illegal orders" discussions.

 

[berg80]

There is a school of thought that goes along the lines of the way the government is set up, any order from above is per se legal unless it explicitly is prohibited in the constitution

Thanks to trump's SC he may avoid accountability for illegal acts but those that carry them out possess no such immunity from the law. Though because this is a lawless regime trump would no doubt pardon anyone who committed an illegal act on his behalf.

 

[Dekster]

Thanks to trump's SC he may avoid accountability for illegal acts but those that carry them out possess no such immunity from the law. Though because this is a lawless regime trump would no doubt pardon anyone who committed an illegal act on his behalf.

I just wanted to point out that lawful orders or unlawful orders are a bit murky to say the least when it comes to the government and its employees

 

[berg80]

I just wanted to point out that lawful orders or unlawful orders are a bit murky to say the least when it comes to the government and its employees

I guess I'd have to disagree. The SC's immunity ruling for a sitting prez leaves some ambiguity as to what qualifies as an "official act." But as far as orders given by trump to break the law, statutes tell us whether they are legal or not.

 

[berg80]

Trump’s past tax returns get protection from IRS enforcement under ‘lawfare’ fund settlement​

Federal tax returns filed by President Donald Trump, family members, the Trump Organization, and related trusts and affiliates before this week are protected from potential Internal Revenue Service enforcement actions under a controversial $1.8 billion settlement with the Justice Department, a new document posted Tuesday shows.

The Justice Department, as part of the settlement, barred the federal government from prosecuting or pursuing “any and all claims” that could have been made by the IRS, which included “tax returns filed before” the effective date of the settlement, according to the document, signed by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.

The protection extends to Trump, his family members, the Trump Organization and “parties including trusts, parent, sister or related companies, affiliates, and subsidiaries.” It covers any pending tax audits of Trump and the others referred to in the addendum that the IRS would have been conducting at the time of the settlement.

Trump's past tax returns get protection from IRS enforcement under 'lawfare' fund settlement

President Trump agreed to drop his lawsuit against the IRS in exchange for a fund that can compensate allies who were targeted under the Biden administration.

www.cnbc.com

trump and the fam get immunity for cheating on their taxes.

Astonishing.

 

[Dekster]

I guess I'd have to disagree. The SC's immunity ruling for a sitting prez leaves some ambiguity as to what qualifies as an "official act." But as far as orders given by trump to break the law, statutes tell us whether they are legal or not.

I am unaware of any statute that says it is illegal for the Justice Department to drop charges.

 

[berg80]

I am unaware of any statute that says it is illegal for the Justice Department to drop charges.

That certainly isn't what I was talking about.

 

[berg80]

The indictment was an extraordinary escalation of the administration’s pressure on Cuba.​

The Justice Department unsealed an indictment on Wednesday charging Raúl Castro, the 94-year-old former president of Cuba and the brother of Fidel Castro, along with five other people with murder and a conspiracy to kill U.S. citizens stemming from the fatal downing 30 years ago of two planes operated by a humanitarian aid group.

The indictment, issued in Federal District Court in Miami, was an extraordinary escalation of the Trump administration’s multifaceted pressure campaign against Cuba’s Communist government.

The charges, which built on an earlier case first filed in 2003, brought to bear on Mr. Castro the powers of the American criminal justice system at a moment of high tension with Cuba. They also laid the grounds for potential action by the military to remove him from the country through a means similar to how U.S. Special Operations forces used an indictment against Nicolás Maduro, the former leader of Venezuela, to swoop into Caracas in a brazen operation in January and capture him.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05/20/us/trump-news?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20260520&instance_id=175895&nl=breaking-news&regi_id=65145149&segment_id=220149&user_id=fecdfdffdaaa11107b72f0f4f6e429cc

Anyone else think the ultimate goal is for the trump Org to develop real estate in Cuba?

This kind of thing makes me wonder if the blonde sock puppet wasn't enough of a sock puppet...............but Todd is.

 

[berg80]

Trump’s Fund Shows Blanche Choosing Loyalty Over Moderation​

Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, has tried to tread an ever-narrowing path between his role as a top Justice Department official and the job that got him there in the first place — as President Trump’s doggedly loyal former lead defense lawyer.

Allies of Mr. Blanche thought he could achieve two seemingly irreconcilable goals when he was elevated to temporarily replace Pam Bondi after her ouster in April: restoring stability and competence to the department and taking a handful of actions that were sufficiently drastic to convince the boss he was tough enough to make his title permanent.

So far, however, Mr. Blanche has exhibited few of the modest moderating tendencies he exhibited during more than a year as Ms. Bondi’s top deputy. Under Mr. Blanche, the pace of investigations against Mr. Trump’s perceived enemies has accelerated — most strikingly, the indictment of the former F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, for posting on social media an image of seashells that prosecutors cast as threatening. Mr. Blanche has used his new perch to boost debunked election conspiracy theories promoted by the president.

But the moves that most starkly illustrated Mr. Blanche’s evolving approach came this week. In announcing on Monday a $1.8 billion fund that would benefit those who claim they were targeted by the federal government, he effectively forged a pipeline to funnel taxpayer money to Trump allies, among them supporters who ransacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. “The machinery of government should never be weaponized against any American, and it is this department’s intention to make right the wrongs that were previously done while ensuring this never happens again,” Mr. Blanche said in a statement.

Trump’s Fund Shows Blanche Choosing Loyalty Over Moderation

Once seen by some as the most conventional of President Trump’s political appointees, Todd Blanche has taken off the gloves in his new role as acting attorney general.

www.nytimes.com

Dotard always ends up promoting the most rabid zealots.

 

[berg80]

Todd Blanche defends the Justice Department’s new $1.8 billion compensation fund.​

Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, on Tuesday defended a new $1.8 billion program to pay people who claim mistreatment by the federal government, as he faced blowback to an initiative Democrats called a slush fund for allies of President Trump’s.

Mr. Blanche’s comments came during a Senate appropriations hearing, where he promised transparency even as he declined to disclose whether the money would go to pro-Trump rioters convicted of assaulting police officers at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

“There’s no limitation on the claims,” he said, insisting that the fund would review claims from an array of people, not just Republicans, and not just over perceived instances of mistreatment by the Biden administration.

Asked if Mr. Trump’s campaign donors could also seek taxpayer compensation, Mr. Blanche said they could. He also suggested that President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s son Hunter Biden, who was prosecuted and convicted by the Biden administration, could also apply.

Blanche Defends $1.8 Billion Fund That Could Benefit Trump’s Allies

www.nytimes.com

This is why Todd is where he is.

 

[berg80]

Ted Cruz says GOP senators were ‘screaming’ at Todd Blanche during ‘anti-weaponization’ fund briefing​

Screaming, yelling and accusations of self-dealing.

That’s how Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Friday described a closed-door meeting with Senate Republicans and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on the Trump administration’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund that’s drawn bipartisan opposition.

On his podcast “Verdict with Ted Cruz,” the Texas senator described the meeting as “one of the roughest meetings I’ve seen in my entire time in the Senate.”

Ted Cruz says GOP senators were ‘screaming’ at Todd Blanche during ‘anti-weaponization’ fund briefing

The private meeting came hours before the Senate postponed a critical vote to advance a partisan funding bill for ICE and Border Patrol.

www.nbcnews.com

Interesting that Ted admitted to the dissent.

 

[berg80]

When Todd was asked to defend trump's despicable slush fund he said "people who hurt police get money all the time."

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5889625-todd-blanche-doj-anti-weaponization-fund-defense/

These people have a black hole where their moral compass belongs.

 

[ColonelAngus]

The next person up is always a billion times worse than the previous person.

You commies NEVER CHANGE!

VANCE IS A BILLION TRUMPS!