{"id":166991,"date":"2026-11-09T10:58:57","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T18:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/11\/09\/todd-blanche-is-the-real-victim-just-ask-him-hell-tell-you\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T10:58:57","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T18:58:57","slug":"todd-blanche-is-the-real-victim-just-ask-him-hell-tell-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/11\/09\/todd-blanche-is-the-real-victim-just-ask-him-hell-tell-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd Blanche Is The Real Victim. Just Ask Him, He\u2019ll Tell You!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Todd \u201cDARVO\u201d Blanche took to the Sunday shows to complain about Democratic lawmakers being so mean<\/em> to the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

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here’s is full footage of the crashout Attorney General Todd Blanche just had on CNN, including him confirming he’ll investigate Democrats on Trump’s demand and leaving the door open to trying to imprison them<\/p>\n

\u2014 Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)<\/a> 2026-11-08T14:25:21.285Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

After Tuesday\u2019s blue tsunami, Democrats promised to investigate the administration\u2019s flagrant corruption. Naturally Trump spent Saturday flipping his shit<\/a> and demanding that these \u201cEXTORTIONISTS\u201d be imprisoned.<\/p>\n

An hour later, he followed up by urging<\/a> Americans to report Democratic \u201cthreats\u201d to DOJ \u2014 \u201cIf you would like, send them directly to me, your President\u201d \u2014 because \u201cThese SLEAZEBAGS should go to jail.\u201d<\/p>\n

So the attorney general parked his keister in front of the cameras and worked himself into a lather of feigned indignation. Blanche, who spent the past two years forcing the president\u2019s enemies to pony up millions of dollars in legal fees, is BIG MAD about a post<\/a> from Rep. Robert Garcia, the incoming Oversight chair, warning Trump administration officials to \u201cLAWYER UP.\u201d<\/p>\n

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AG Todd Blanche: “You have Garcia minutes after Stephen Miller was promoted to chief of staff telling him to ‘lawyer up.’ Well I’ll tell you what. Stephen Miller has a lawyer. It’s me.”<\/p>\n

\u2014 Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)<\/a> 2026-11-07T00:20:41.901Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll tell you what,\u201d he vamped to Fox News\u2019s Laura Ingraham. \u201cStephen Miller has a lawyer. It\u2019s me.\u201d<\/p>\n

And he did such a bang-up job<\/a> for his last private client!<\/p>\n

Third verse, same as the first<\/h2>\n

To prop up their \u201cwe\u2019re the real<\/em> victims\u201d storyline, Republicans are recycling a month-old smear targeting Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin. In a wide-ranging discussion<\/a> at the University of Chicago, she explained that the incoming Congress will use its oversight power to hold the president accountable and<\/em> to deter people from carrying out his corrupt edicts:<\/p>\n

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I want to look at these signature cases and not just focus on the president, but on the people who enabled him. I want young people coming out of school to say, \u201cShould I go work for the Trump administration?\u201d Like, \u201cThat sounds fun. I might get an opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

I want them to be like, \u201cLord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don\u2019t want. And so, let me avoid participating in that.\u201d I want that deterrence message sent.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As Greg Sargent noted<\/a>, right-wing accounts screeched that Slotkin was pledging to hunt down College Republicans. Trump called<\/a> her \u201ca low life who is ruining her state,\u201d and now he\u2019s back for another bite at the apple, howling<\/a> that the senator \u201cis saying that she is going to go after all young people that believe in Republican Values, and that give even the slightest inclination to be a Republican.\u201d<\/p>\n

On CNN<\/a> this weekend, Blanche called Slotkin\u2019s comments potentially criminal: \u201cThey have threatened donors. They have threatened individuals who are in college and might want to work for conservative institutions or for a conservative government or for President Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

Todd Blanche, who charged the Southern Poverty Law Center with defrauding donors is outraged that someone would demonize conservative institutions. The guy whose office is targeting<\/a> the Open Society Institute, funded by Jewish philanthropist George Soros, for potential racketeering, wire fraud, and even terrorism charges. The one whose boss ordered him to investigate Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue<\/a>, Democratic megadonor Reid Hoffman<\/a>, and Democratic superlawyer Marc Elias<\/a>. The guy who personally authorized a raid Rep. Ilhan Omar\u2019s home three weeks before the election.<\/p>\n

But please, Mister Attorney General<\/em>, tell us more about how Democrats\u2019 conduct is \u201cso vile and so dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n

Best defense is a good offense<\/h2>\n

Blanche\u2019s attack on Slotkin is exceptionally craven since the DOJ actually tried to throw the senator in jail in February. Last November, Sen. Slotkin, Sen. Mark Kelly, and Reps. Jason Crow, Chrissy Houlahan, Chris Deluzio and Maggie Goodlander, all veterans of the military or intelligence community, made a 90-second video reminding active-duty service members that \u201cyou must refuse illegal orders.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statement was protected by both the First Amendment and legislative immunity. It also happens to be true. But Trump called them seditious traitors who should be punished with death, and so the FBI opened an investigation that only ended when a grand jury in DC told US Attorney Jeanine Pirro to get lost<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Blanche is once again threatening to prosecute Sen. Slotkin for doing her job, lying about what she said, and summoning the troll storms and threats he knows will follow \u2014 all while howling that she<\/em> is intimidating him<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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This man, @mrddmia<\/a>, who is suggesting I be shot, was in the mix to be President Trump’s next Attorney General after he fired Pam Bondi for not prosecuting more of his political opponents. He is now at a MAGA dark money group, mobilizing death threats against me and my staff for\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/yez5f2YWFG<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Elissa Slotkin (@ElissaSlotkin) October 19, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

The attacks on Rep. Garcia are yet another retread. In February of 2025, interim US Attorney Ed Martin, who was too much of a wackass<\/a> to get confirmed by a Republican Senate, sent a menacing letter demanding that the congressman \u201cclarify\u201d what he meant by \u201cWhat the American public wants is for us to bring actual weapons to this bar fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

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So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump\u2019s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Robert Garcia (@robertgarcia.bsky.social)<\/a> 2025-02-20T19:55:59.203Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

\u201cThis sounds to some like a threat to Mr. Musk \u2013 an appointed representative of President Donald Trump who you call a \u2018dick\u2019 \u2013 and government staff who work for him,\u201d Martin babbled.<\/p>\n

Martin eventually got himself turfed out<\/a> of the DOJ altogether, reportedly because his blabbermouth sank the grand jury investigation into California Sen. Adam Schiff, another Trump enemy.<\/p>\n

But now Blanche has picked up the mantle, warning House Oversight Committee members that he \u201cwould be very worried\u201d if he were them.<\/p>\n

Not your job, bro<\/h2>\n

As for his generous offer to serve as counsel to the entire executive branch, Blanche insists this is a constitutional obligation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Constitution sees it as my job,\u201d he blustered, adding that if Rep. Garcia didn\u2019t have a copy, \u201cI can arrange to send him one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perhaps the AG should scrutinize his edition a bit more closely, though, since it doesn\u2019t mention the attorney general at all. The office was created<\/a> by Section 35 of the Judiciary Act of 1789, which gave the AG exactly two jobs: argue the government\u2019s cases at the Supreme Court and give legal advice to the president and department heads. The Justice Department didn\u2019t even exist until 1870.<\/p>\n

What Blanche is really talking about is a regulation, 28 C.F.R. \u00a7 50.15<\/a>, which lets DOJ represent federal employees in congressional proceedings if the attorney general decides their conduct was within the scope of their employment and that representation is in the interest of the United States. So yes, Stephen Miller will probably get a taxpayer-funded lawyer. But when Blanche vowed to represent Pete Hegseth at his likely impeachment hearing, he accused Bash of \u201cignoring history, and including recent history\u201d of the attorney general acting as personal lawyer for cabinet members.<\/p>\n

That, too, was bullshit. When Trump was impeached the first time, he was defended<\/a> by his personal lawyer Jay Sekulow and White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, not by Bill Barr. (The White House Counsel is not a part of DOJ.)<\/p>\n

In 2023, DOJ\u2019s own Office of Legal Counsel noted<\/a> that \u201cthe Department has not provided formal representation in any of the five impeachment trials of Executive Branch officers.\u201d When House Republicans impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas the following year, DHS hired<\/a> Debevoise & Plimpton to represent him, racking up $1.6 million in bills. The Heritage Foundation called it \u201cobscene.\u201d<\/p>\n

And while Blanche performs umbrage at all the patriotic conservatives who won\u2019t enter government service because of scary Elissa Slotkin, Trump has gleefully gutted the federal bureaucracy and pointed to its diminution as a sign of his own greatness.<\/p>\n

During the dark days of DOGE, the Office of Personnel Management shoved hundreds of thousands of employees out the door, chirping<\/a> that \u201cThe way to greater American prosperity is encouraging people to move from lower productivity jobs in the public sector to higher productivity jobs in the private sector.\u201d<\/p>\n

Obviously, Blanche doesn\u2019t give a shit when the Forest Service gets burned down. But he cares very much about his own agency\u2019s inability to hire competent lawyers.<\/p>\n

Since 2025, the DOJ has lost nearly 1,000<\/a> assistant US attorneys and faced a drastic decline in both the number and quality of applicants to replace them. In March, the Department started<\/a> letting US attorney\u2019s offices hire prosecutors straight out of law school. Former DOJ chief of staff Chad Mizelle and leaders of multiple US Attorneys offices took to social media begging young lawyers to slide into their DMs and shoot over a CV. Turns out, it\u2019s not so easy to hire good employees when you\u2019re asking them to bring dogshit cases that will land them on the front page and maybe even the disciplinary docket of the state bar.<\/p>\n

Plus there\u2019s the little matter that this<\/em> DOJ has a nasty habit of trying to prosecute its own people. Blanche publicly crows<\/a> that he\u2019s trying to build a case against former special counsel Jack Smith, and he\u2019s so desperate to put former FBI director Jim Comey in handcuffs that he filed charges over a picture of seashells on Instagram. Last week, in the same courthouse where Comey is fighting yet a third set of garbage criminal charges, a magistrate tossed<\/a> the DOJ\u2019s case against two former FBI officials for lying about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat has transpired here cannot be described as anything other than weaponization,\u201d Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said from the bench, adding that \u201cThis case is marketing material to discourage people from joining the FBI.\u201d<\/p>\n

The call is coming from inside the house, Todd! And soon, it\u2019ll be coming from the House, too. As a wise man once said, LAWYER UP!<\/p>\n

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Liz Dye<\/a>\u00a0produces the Law and Chaos\u00a0Substack\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0You can subscribe by clicking the logo:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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The post Todd Blanche Is The Real Victim. Just Ask Him, He\u2019ll Tell You!<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, Todd \u201cDARVO\u201d Blanche took to the Sunday shows to complain about Democratic lawmakers being so mean<\/em> to the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

After Tuesday\u2019s blue tsunami, Democrats promised to investigate the administration\u2019s flagrant corruption. Naturally Trump spent Saturday flipping his shit<\/a> and demanding that these \u201cEXTORTIONISTS\u201d be imprisoned.<\/p>\n

An hour later, he followed up by urging<\/a> Americans to report Democratic \u201cthreats\u201d to DOJ \u2014 \u201cIf you would like, send them directly to me, your President\u201d \u2014 because \u201cThese SLEAZEBAGS should go to jail.\u201d<\/p>\n

So the attorney general parked his keister in front of the cameras and worked himself into a lather of feigned indignation. Blanche, who spent the past two years forcing the president\u2019s enemies to pony up millions of dollars in legal fees, is BIG MAD about a post<\/a> from Rep. Robert Garcia, the incoming Oversight chair, warning Trump administration officials to \u201cLAWYER UP.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll tell you what,\u201d he vamped to Fox News\u2019s Laura Ingraham. \u201cStephen Miller has a lawyer. It\u2019s me.\u201d<\/p>\n

And he did such a bang-up job<\/a> for his last private client!<\/p>\n

To prop up their \u201cwe\u2019re the real<\/em> victims\u201d storyline, Republicans are recycling a month-old smear targeting Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin. In a wide-ranging discussion<\/a> at the University of Chicago, she explained that the incoming Congress will use its oversight power to hold the president accountable and<\/em> to deter people from carrying out his corrupt edicts:<\/p>\n

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I want to look at these signature cases and not just focus on the president, but on the people who enabled him. I want young people coming out of school to say, \u201cShould I go work for the Trump administration?\u201d Like, \u201cThat sounds fun. I might get an opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

I want them to be like, \u201cLord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don\u2019t want. And so, let me avoid participating in that.\u201d I want that deterrence message sent.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As Greg Sargent noted<\/a>, right-wing accounts screeched that Slotkin was pledging to hunt down College Republicans. Trump called<\/a> her \u201ca low life who is ruining her state,\u201d and now he\u2019s back for another bite at the apple, howling<\/a> that the senator \u201cis saying that she is going to go after all young people that believe in Republican Values, and that give even the slightest inclination to be a Republican.\u201d<\/p>\n

On CNN<\/a> this weekend, Blanche called Slotkin\u2019s comments potentially criminal: \u201cThey have threatened donors. They have threatened individuals who are in college and might want to work for conservative institutions or for a conservative government or for President Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

Todd Blanche, who charged the Southern Poverty Law Center with defrauding donors is outraged that someone would demonize conservative institutions. The guy whose office is targeting<\/a> the Open Society Institute, funded by Jewish philanthropist George Soros, for potential racketeering, wire fraud, and even terrorism charges. The one whose boss ordered him to investigate Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue<\/a>, Democratic megadonor Reid Hoffman<\/a>, and Democratic superlawyer Marc Elias<\/a>. The guy who personally authorized a raid Rep. Ilhan Omar\u2019s home three weeks before the election.<\/p>\n

But please, Mister Attorney General<\/em>, tell us more about how Democrats\u2019 conduct is \u201cso vile and so dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blanche\u2019s attack on Slotkin is exceptionally craven since the DOJ actually tried to throw the senator in jail in February. Last November, Sen. Slotkin, Sen. Mark Kelly, and Reps. Jason Crow, Chrissy Houlahan, Chris Deluzio and Maggie Goodlander, all veterans of the military or intelligence community, made a 90-second video reminding active-duty service members that \u201cyou must refuse illegal orders.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statement was protected by both the First Amendment and legislative immunity. It also happens to be true. But Trump called them seditious traitors who should be punished with death, and so the FBI opened an investigation that only ended when a grand jury in DC told US Attorney Jeanine Pirro to get lost<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Blanche is once again threatening to prosecute Sen. Slotkin for doing her job, lying about what she said, and summoning the troll storms and threats he knows will follow \u2014 all while howling that she<\/em> is intimidating him<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The attacks on Rep. Garcia are yet another retread. In February of 2025, interim US Attorney Ed Martin, who was too much of a wackass<\/a> to get confirmed by a Republican Senate, sent a menacing letter demanding that the congressman \u201cclarify\u201d what he meant by \u201cWhat the American public wants is for us to bring actual weapons to this bar fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis sounds to some like a threat to Mr. Musk \u2013 an appointed representative of President Donald Trump who you call a \u2018dick\u2019 \u2013 and government staff who work for him,\u201d Martin babbled.<\/p>\n

Martin eventually got himself turfed out<\/a> of the DOJ altogether, reportedly because his blabbermouth sank the grand jury investigation into California Sen. Adam Schiff, another Trump enemy.<\/p>\n

But now Blanche has picked up the mantle, warning House Oversight Committee members that he \u201cwould be very worried\u201d if he were them.<\/p>\n

As for his generous offer to serve as counsel to the entire executive branch, Blanche insists this is a constitutional obligation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Constitution sees it as my job,\u201d he blustered, adding that if Rep. Garcia didn\u2019t have a copy, \u201cI can arrange to send him one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perhaps the AG should scrutinize his edition a bit more closely, though, since it doesn\u2019t mention the attorney general at all. The office was created<\/a> by Section 35 of the Judiciary Act of 1789, which gave the AG exactly two jobs: argue the government\u2019s cases at the Supreme Court and give legal advice to the president and department heads. The Justice Department didn\u2019t even exist until 1870.<\/p>\n

What Blanche is really talking about is a regulation, 28 C.F.R. \u00a7 50.15<\/a>, which lets DOJ represent federal employees in congressional proceedings if the attorney general decides their conduct was within the scope of their employment and that representation is in the interest of the United States. So yes, Stephen Miller will probably get a taxpayer-funded lawyer. But when Blanche vowed to represent Pete Hegseth at his likely impeachment hearing, he accused Bash of \u201cignoring history, and including recent history\u201d of the attorney general acting as personal lawyer for cabinet members.<\/p>\n

That, too, was bullshit. When Trump was impeached the first time, he was defended<\/a> by his personal lawyer Jay Sekulow and White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, not by Bill Barr. (The White House Counsel is not a part of DOJ.)<\/p>\n

In 2023, DOJ\u2019s own Office of Legal Counsel noted<\/a> that \u201cthe Department has not provided formal representation in any of the five impeachment trials of Executive Branch officers.\u201d When House Republicans impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas the following year, DHS hired<\/a> Debevoise & Plimpton to represent him, racking up $1.6 million in bills. The Heritage Foundation called it \u201cobscene.\u201d<\/p>\n

And while Blanche performs umbrage at all the patriotic conservatives who won\u2019t enter government service because of scary Elissa Slotkin, Trump has gleefully gutted the federal bureaucracy and pointed to its diminution as a sign of his own greatness.<\/p>\n

During the dark days of DOGE, the Office of Personnel Management shoved hundreds of thousands of employees out the door, chirping<\/a> that \u201cThe way to greater American prosperity is encouraging people to move from lower productivity jobs in the public sector to higher productivity jobs in the private sector.\u201d<\/p>\n

Obviously, Blanche doesn\u2019t give a shit when the Forest Service gets burned down. But he cares very much about his own agency\u2019s inability to hire competent lawyers.<\/p>\n

Since 2025, the DOJ has lost nearly 1,000<\/a> assistant US attorneys and faced a drastic decline in both the number and quality of applicants to replace them. In March, the Department started<\/a> letting US attorney\u2019s offices hire prosecutors straight out of law school. Former DOJ chief of staff Chad Mizelle and leaders of multiple US Attorneys offices took to social media begging young lawyers to slide into their DMs and shoot over a CV. Turns out, it\u2019s not so easy to hire good employees when you\u2019re asking them to bring dogshit cases that will land them on the front page and maybe even the disciplinary docket of the state bar.<\/p>\n

Plus there\u2019s the little matter that this<\/em> DOJ has a nasty habit of trying to prosecute its own people. Blanche publicly crows<\/a> that he\u2019s trying to build a case against former special counsel Jack Smith, and he\u2019s so desperate to put former FBI director Jim Comey in handcuffs that he filed charges over a picture of seashells on Instagram. Last week, in the same courthouse where Comey is fighting yet a third set of garbage criminal charges, a magistrate tossed<\/a> the DOJ\u2019s case against two former FBI officials for lying about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat has transpired here cannot be described as anything other than weaponization,\u201d Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said from the bench, adding that \u201cThis case is marketing material to discourage people from joining the FBI.\u201d<\/p>\n

The call is coming from inside the house, Todd! And soon, it\u2019ll be coming from the House, too. As a wise man once said, LAWYER UP!<\/p>\n

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Liz Dye<\/a>\u00a0produces the Law and Chaos\u00a0Substack\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0You can subscribe by clicking the logo:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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