Todd Blanche ripped into Trump's weaponization czar and directed key prosecutions of president's enemies, emails show
Source: The Independent
Tuesday 14 July 2026 15:13 EDT
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche played a key role overseeing Donald Trump’s so-called retribution campaign to target the president’s political enemies and investigate the prosecutors and officials who once investigated them, new emails show.
Blanche, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney and his nominee to serve as the nation’s top law enforcement official, assigned senior Department of Justice officials to oversee politically loaded investigations into former special counsel Jack Smith, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the prosecution of January 6 rioters and the 2020 presidential election, emails show.
The documents, obtained by watchdog group American Oversight and first reported by The New York Times, were released the day before Blanche faces two days of Senate confirmation hearings to serve as the next U.S. Attorney General.
Emails and other documents appear to show Blanche’s grip on the Justice Department’s inner workings, from scheduling weekly “weaponization” meetings in his office to berating senior officials he didn’t think were up to the job. Other messages show Blanche’s office deploying his allies to oversee high-profile investigations following demands from the president and his allies to prosecute his rivals.
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