Episode 5599: The Left's Calling For The End Of America

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How is Todd Blanche reshaping the Justice Department under the Trump administration?

Eugene Daniels 0:00

Instead, Blanche is shattering post-Watergate norms that protected the country, y'all, from a president who wants to weaponize the Justice Department for personal or political gain. And Blanche has been laying the groundwork for this moment for months, years maybe. Back in April, then acting AG Blanche boldly asserted that Trump has a quote right and duty to influence individual investigations. And over the course Trump's second term, the Justice Department has weaponized the institution to target the president's perceived foes.

Michael Steele 0:31

Of course, Trump's to-do list for Todd Blanche expands well beyond the president's petty retribution campaign. Y'all know that. He's also pressuring the DOJ to sow doubts in our elections ahead of the midterms. During that same Meet the Press interview, Blanche said he's ready to take Trump's push to obtain state's voter rolls as all the way to the Supreme Court. In fact, just today, a federal judge in Minnesota decided. Missed another attempt by the administration to access state voter rolls. This comes hours after Trump's DOJ appealed three similar rulings. In total, the Justice Department has lost 23 of these cases so far, winning zero, none.

Symone Sanders Townsend 1:14

Todd Blanche has a superpower, if I, you know, could say so. And I think his superpower is making the extraordinary sound ordinary run-of-the-mill. He does this very, very well. He sounds like a very boring, normal, like good old boy lawyer that's just trying to tell the people what's going on. And oh my goodness, these Democrats are so snowflakes and they're blowing everything out of proportion when, oh, Kristen, what do you mean? That's ridiculous. No, Todd Blanche is ridiculous, and people need to be very well aware just like the pr the chairman just laid out how they're trying to steal the election they have re-engineered what this Justice Department was meant to do and have done it um using normal sounding language describing extraordinary actions that we should not just gloss over.

Eugene Daniels 1:57

Yeah. When you watch him compared to Pam Bondi, Pam Bondi does feel more political when she's talking, right? He feels like a lawyer. That is your point. And I think the thing that's so interesting about watching how he is going to be operating as the attorney general is there's the explicit, the heavy-handed stuff that we hear from Donald Trump. Go out there and go get him, Pam, or whatever that tweet said, someone can fact check that he did say it. Um but then there is the implicit, right? There's the there's the fact that at the end of the day there have been ten years of Donald Trump talking about his perceived foes. And there have been 18 months of this administration. Kyle Blanche knows his marching orders.

Eugene Daniels 2:32

He knows what Donald Trump's want Donald Trump wants. So he doesn't have to wait for any actual orders. So it's our job the folks in the media and the folks that care about um these kinds of things to watch and pay attention because I think it's going to get a lot worse. So

Unknown 2:45

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Unknown 3:36

the process to get there ensures the internal party democracy that we want to see in DSA. So it it it really wraps up uh The revolutionary tradition of democracy that I think socialism and abolitionism in the United States have always been a part of and aims it, you know, at at a future that we can live in as a as a human species, because I think absent a revolutionary uh democratic socialist republic in North America, we may not have a livable future.