Carrie Johnson
speaker
143 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 7 Aug
Carrie Johnson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine who's in a tough reelection battle, came out and said that she was opposed to Blanche in part because of the role he played in generating that nearly one point eight billion dollar slush fund um designed for people who had been the victims of
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weaponization by the Biden Justice Department, maybe even January sixth rioters.
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She also cited Blanche's alleged promise to an anti abortion group that he would do what he could to
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uh bar the mailing of abortion medication to women across the country.
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Uh another person who came out against Blanche earlier this morning is Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska.
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Murkowski basically said that she does not have confidence that Todd Blanche, the former personal lawyer to President Trump, will check President Trump's worst impulses.
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Senator Cassidy said he had been on the phone with Todd Blanche five or six times, including right before Cassidy went uh to the Senate floor to say he would in fact vote for Todd Blanche.
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Wow.
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And he said there had been other text exchanges as well.
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He also talked about being on the phone for a long time with the former attorney general during the first Trump administration, Bill Barr, who's argued that the Senate should confirm Todd Blanche because anybody's a good thing.
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Else would be worse.
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And that argument really seemed to be persuasive to Senator Cassidy.
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Senator Cassidy said he wasn't a fan of the slush fund.
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He wasn't a fan of this tax immunity deal.
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Uh the Justice Department appears to have tried to broker.
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uh for President Trump and two of his sons and and the Trump company.
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But Cassidy said he did like Todd Blanche's work on violent crime and human trafficking and healthcare fraud.
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And he said that he thought that Blanche would be able to stand up to the president and give him honest advice.
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Now, whether the president will actually take that advice is an open question for Bill Cassidy, but he landed on yes after a few hours of suspense.
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