Ryan Lucas
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135 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4 Sep
Ryan Lucas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That is the bottom line as of right now.
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Yeah, I expect this to be a tense hearing today, and that's because in this second Trump administration, the Justice Department has been in turmoil.
It has been at the center of a number of political firestorms, and Blanche himself has been in the thick of all of it.
He is seen as a Trump loyalist.
He previously served as Trump's personal attorney.
And then when Trump returned to office, he named Blanche to be the number two official at the Justice Department.
Blanche then became acting attorney general in April after Trump pushed out his first attorney general, Pam Bondi.
Trump has liked what he's seen from Blanche in the past couple months.
He nominated him for the job full time.
But Democrats, and it has to be said a few Republicans, have concerns about Blanche's track record over the past 18 months at the department.
And so I expect him to get tough questions about that today.
Well, look, Democrats have a whole bunch of issues that they're going to want to get into with Blanche.
They say that he has destroyed the Justice Department's traditional independence from the White House.
They say that he's made it subservient to the president, weaponized it to go after Trump's perceived political enemies.
And there's a long list of Trump critics who have faced DOJ investigations or prosecutions, perhaps most notably former FBI Director James Comey, who has been indicted twice by this Justice Department.
Democrats also have questions about Blanche's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, whether the Justice Department and Blanche specifically did anything to try to shield President Trump from embarrassment in those files.
And then there's the $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund that the department agreed to set up as part of a settlement with Trump to end his lawsuit against the IRS.
That's right.
The fund has been scrapped, yes.
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