While I agree with your analysis in this article, I don't let Bondi off that easily. She could have overruled him at any point or taken back decision-making authority at any time. And she was not under oath when she threw him under the bus. Don't mistake these comments as being supportive of Blanche in any way - he is a sniveling bootlicker willing to do ANYTHING to be AG.
If Dems take the House and Senate this fall, they need to act FAST to neuter the narcissist-in-chief.
Reverse the tariffs.
Restore the ACA subsidies.
RELEASE the files.
DonJohn can publicly VETO their efforts to lower costs for regular Americans, but he can't veto the release of the files, as demanded by a law that he signed.
A national watchdog group, the Campaign for Accountability (CfA), filed an 11-page ethics complaint against Blanche with the New York Bar.The complaint outlines the following key details:
The Underlying Case: The complaint stems from the prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident and asylum seeker whose earlier court victory challenging his deportation gained national attention.
Judicial Findings: U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw Jr. dismissed the smuggling charges against Abrego Garcia, ruling that Blanche (who was involved in the DOJ at the time) launched the criminal prosecution not to enforce the law, but for "vindictive" reasons to retaliate against Garcia and justify his deportation.Ethical Violations Alleged:
The bar complaint alleges that Blanche violated numerous New York Rules of Professional Conduct, including prohibitions against:Dishonesty, fraud, and misrepresentation.
Threatening or utilizing criminal charges to gain an advantage in a civil matter.
Conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice.Directing subordinate DOJ lawyers to act with a conflict of interest.
Bondi is such a liar. Those Epstein files were her job to release. First, to see that victim identity was properly redacted. Second, to release the files. She did neither. She didn’t even face the victims at the hearing. She has no integrity whatsoever. As for Blanche, he was trying to make a deal with Maxwell, that’s why she was transferred to a cushy facility. It’s all very clear. If any of them, MAGA or non-MAGA votes to confirm Blanche then they are all corrupt and enabling a criminal felon in the White House.
I don't know why so many are resistant to the analogy that the tRump Organization is nothing but a NY crime family making tRump Don Don. But I get a lot of resistance every time I post it. Look at his entire business history: it is one scheme after another based on fabulism, fraud, tax evasion, hiring illegal workers, stiffing contractors, and eventually getting bailed out. He bribes all the right people. And in elevating Todd Blanche, he has his next Roy Cohn - a known mob lawyer. It is time to call a spade a spade and admit we elected a mob boss president.
I think the resistance comes from comparing Trump's administration to an NY crime family. In this case you're insulting NY crime families. Any of which ran better and more competently than Trump's.
Also Roy Cohn was an evil genius. Thank god Trump was too stupid to learn everything Cohn probably tried to teach him. Compared to Cohn, Blanche isn't even qualified to be a henchman. Maybe a "henchman wannabe."
Sure but he doesn't have to be Roy Cohn or even a henchman to do that. He just has to be the incompetent patsy. Trump will tell him what to do and he'll try to do it. But he better be a lot more effective than he's been so far or he won't be Patsy General for long.
Anyone who ever worked in New York City knows how corrupt trump as well as his father was. It was the way they did business and he learned it early and used it very often. I agree with you that Blanche now in his current position is the "Roy Cohn" lawyer he always wanted, and he cannot be allowed to continue in his role for the remainder of this administration.
I hear you Stephen! Thinking of Michael Cohen's part in Trump's world prior to being president, leads me to the same conclusion. Also when I think of DJT's father and his success in NY during that time period .... he would have had to of come up against the various crime families and found ways to deal with them. DJT's demand for loyalty to him, is also very telling. Perhaps the only thing that is unique in the Trump Crime Family is that Trump craves lime light! LOL His ego is his what will take him down.
Some time ago I realized that I don’t read the national papers any more. Jeff Bezoz soured me on the Post and these days if it wasn’t for Wordle I’d probably save the subscription fee for the Times too. I come here, to Substack, to read the news like it used to be. Thanks!
The next president MUST do two things to brace up our democracy towards healing. First, present to the public ALL Epstein files showing how trump was involved with child raping and trafficking. Second, ALL illegally gained money(including all illegally gained money of his family since it was set up by him and has his fingerprints on it) should be seized because of domestic terrorist actions to undermine the countries economic conditions. The worst punishment for the fascist-corrupt trump family is to be poor and for the American people to see crime does not pay in this country. If we don't lay this block for the foundation of rebuilding our democracy then it will not be strong enough to survive.
I have to wonder if GOP approval of Blanche to head Justice might lead to GOP senate losses. While I would hate the former, I would love to see Democrats take the Senate and the House in the midterms and start the reversal of Project 2025 as well as the eventual prosecution and/or impeachment of Trump.
If the decision to withhold the Epstein files was not Bondi's, and that she was subservient to Trump and Blanche in that matter (and probably others) SHE had the power nevertheless. She was a loyalist and lied to the Congress in her confirmation hearings. The Congress allowed this. Bondi was not the people's Attorney General and was never going to be. Now Blanche, the president's personal attorney is taking over. He sits there in front of lawmakers and lies expecting us to believe it. He is a blatant liar. He is confrontational as though he does not owe the people or their elected representatives anything. This is on us, thrown to us. When these traitors ( the whole lot) were confirmed they lied and were believed. Now there is no excuse. They must be held to account, impeached, disbarred..shamed. We know their colors.
What happens now, or used to happen, is when a decent person, a good person that works for people and in the name of the Constitution, gets to office and then then finds out that they "play or pay" or they reach a point where conscience kicks in, and they leave (or are fired)- then there is always someone, a "player" that will replace that person. And then there are those in the Congress who say- well he's the president and he should have who he wants serving him. And there you have it- the most corrupt administration ever. Shame on us.
I am thoroughly at a loss to understand how Blanche and Bondi have not been disbarred and had their law licenses revoked. I am no legal expert but it seems to me the evidence of total abrogation of oaths to the Constitution and the clearly unethical behaviors from both these individuals would be sufficient to initiate such proceedings. Who decides that? What is the purpose of the bar associations if not to hold such people accountable?
Will Norm's group be working on the White House Lawn wresting cage removal? Now there's also the "trump promenade" which he wants to add to the Lincoln Memorial property.
"Bondi made clear that the decision to withhold 3 million files required by law to be released was not hers."
Talk about a CYA statement! Bondi was the Attorney General, the head of the Department of Injustice. Had she never heard Harry Truman's words, "the buck stops here?" Bondi and now Blanche have got to be the most incompetent people to be in charge of wielding the law. If the senate approves this nominee, they all deserve to be voted out for not looking after the welfare of the people and attention to justice.
I'm not sure anyone else who succeeds Blanche would be less corrupt, but he clearly is too biased and unqualified to handle the AG position. I hope the Republicans who have nothing left to lose defy Trump on this nomination. But what I really hope is that somewhere, whether in the United States or elsewhere, there's a clean copy of the Epstein files in the cloud, waiting to be downloaded and disseminated around the world. Some of the heaviest Kool-Aid drinking MAGA faithful would still stick with Trump, but when the scope of his involvement is known, he's finished as a political force. If he wasn't up to his eyeballs in the horrors of the Epstein affair, he would have proven that long ago. That he's gone to such great lengths to defy legislation and cover it up speaks volumes.
Let's stop kidding ourselves. Trump's obvious refusal to release those files adds weight to the suspicions that Trump is a habitual sex offender where his illegal and disgraceful behavior involved sex with minor children. What is this nation's blindness to this possibility saying about our care and value for minor children? It may also be a humiliating revelation that men with money and power were involved in Epstein's heinous business of supplying minor children to the sexual whims of helpless minor children including in some instances male children.
And he confirmed, to Marjorie Taylor Green, that releasing the files would hurt his friends. Even if he personally is not so involved, he is absolutely protecting the people who are.
The confirmation hearing needs to have a laser focus on this cover up because it proves he is unfit and every senator should be removed if they do not bring this up 😎
Be sue to tell that to the voters in your state. Midterms are coming up, and any GOP senator up for election needs to be challenged by a strong Dem/Progressive opponant. That is the way senators are removed and replaced.
While I agree with your analysis in this article, I don't let Bondi off that easily. She could have overruled him at any point or taken back decision-making authority at any time. And she was not under oath when she threw him under the bus. Don't mistake these comments as being supportive of Blanche in any way - he is a sniveling bootlicker willing to do ANYTHING to be AG.
If Dems take the House and Senate this fall, they need to act FAST to neuter the narcissist-in-chief.
Reverse the tariffs.
Restore the ACA subsidies.
RELEASE the files.
DonJohn can publicly VETO their efforts to lower costs for regular Americans, but he can't veto the release of the files, as demanded by a law that he signed.
Hold those ugly feet to the fire.
A perfect example of everything being relative. In this administration there will always be somebody even lower than rock bottom.
Easy to say but Trump was always there with a knife to her throat and maybe she thought if she went along with the scheme he wouldn’t use it.
How is he even still a lawyer??? He should be disbarred 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
NY bar complaint.
A national watchdog group, the Campaign for Accountability (CfA), filed an 11-page ethics complaint against Blanche with the New York Bar.The complaint outlines the following key details:
The Underlying Case: The complaint stems from the prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident and asylum seeker whose earlier court victory challenging his deportation gained national attention.
Judicial Findings: U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw Jr. dismissed the smuggling charges against Abrego Garcia, ruling that Blanche (who was involved in the DOJ at the time) launched the criminal prosecution not to enforce the law, but for "vindictive" reasons to retaliate against Garcia and justify his deportation.Ethical Violations Alleged:
The bar complaint alleges that Blanche violated numerous New York Rules of Professional Conduct, including prohibitions against:Dishonesty, fraud, and misrepresentation.
Threatening or utilizing criminal charges to gain an advantage in a civil matter.
Conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice.Directing subordinate DOJ lawyers to act with a conflict of interest.
Bondi is such a liar. Those Epstein files were her job to release. First, to see that victim identity was properly redacted. Second, to release the files. She did neither. She didn’t even face the victims at the hearing. She has no integrity whatsoever. As for Blanche, he was trying to make a deal with Maxwell, that’s why she was transferred to a cushy facility. It’s all very clear. If any of them, MAGA or non-MAGA votes to confirm Blanche then they are all corrupt and enabling a criminal felon in the White House.
The Republicans have already proven to be corrected, bought, co-conspirators of this rogue regime.
I don't know why so many are resistant to the analogy that the tRump Organization is nothing but a NY crime family making tRump Don Don. But I get a lot of resistance every time I post it. Look at his entire business history: it is one scheme after another based on fabulism, fraud, tax evasion, hiring illegal workers, stiffing contractors, and eventually getting bailed out. He bribes all the right people. And in elevating Todd Blanche, he has his next Roy Cohn - a known mob lawyer. It is time to call a spade a spade and admit we elected a mob boss president.
A crime family run by a spoiled, childish bully.
I think the resistance comes from comparing Trump's administration to an NY crime family. In this case you're insulting NY crime families. Any of which ran better and more competently than Trump's.
Also Roy Cohn was an evil genius. Thank god Trump was too stupid to learn everything Cohn probably tried to teach him. Compared to Cohn, Blanche isn't even qualified to be a henchman. Maybe a "henchman wannabe."
Bizarro World mob boss. And Blanche can/will do plenty of damage.
Sure but he doesn't have to be Roy Cohn or even a henchman to do that. He just has to be the incompetent patsy. Trump will tell him what to do and he'll try to do it. But he better be a lot more effective than he's been so far or he won't be Patsy General for long.
I agree this us a crime family. You make an ibvious point
Yet few are taking it seriously.
No resistance to your description here. Trump is all of that and more.
Anyone who ever worked in New York City knows how corrupt trump as well as his father was. It was the way they did business and he learned it early and used it very often. I agree with you that Blanche now in his current position is the "Roy Cohn" lawyer he always wanted, and he cannot be allowed to continue in his role for the remainder of this administration.
I hear you Stephen! Thinking of Michael Cohen's part in Trump's world prior to being president, leads me to the same conclusion. Also when I think of DJT's father and his success in NY during that time period .... he would have had to of come up against the various crime families and found ways to deal with them. DJT's demand for loyalty to him, is also very telling. Perhaps the only thing that is unique in the Trump Crime Family is that Trump craves lime light! LOL His ego is his what will take him down.
Some time ago I realized that I don’t read the national papers any more. Jeff Bezoz soured me on the Post and these days if it wasn’t for Wordle I’d probably save the subscription fee for the Times too. I come here, to Substack, to read the news like it used to be. Thanks!
The next president MUST do two things to brace up our democracy towards healing. First, present to the public ALL Epstein files showing how trump was involved with child raping and trafficking. Second, ALL illegally gained money(including all illegally gained money of his family since it was set up by him and has his fingerprints on it) should be seized because of domestic terrorist actions to undermine the countries economic conditions. The worst punishment for the fascist-corrupt trump family is to be poor and for the American people to see crime does not pay in this country. If we don't lay this block for the foundation of rebuilding our democracy then it will not be strong enough to survive.
Those emails (and files). All 3.5 million of them .
I have to wonder if GOP approval of Blanche to head Justice might lead to GOP senate losses. While I would hate the former, I would love to see Democrats take the Senate and the House in the midterms and start the reversal of Project 2025 as well as the eventual prosecution and/or impeachment of Trump.
If the decision to withhold the Epstein files was not Bondi's, and that she was subservient to Trump and Blanche in that matter (and probably others) SHE had the power nevertheless. She was a loyalist and lied to the Congress in her confirmation hearings. The Congress allowed this. Bondi was not the people's Attorney General and was never going to be. Now Blanche, the president's personal attorney is taking over. He sits there in front of lawmakers and lies expecting us to believe it. He is a blatant liar. He is confrontational as though he does not owe the people or their elected representatives anything. This is on us, thrown to us. When these traitors ( the whole lot) were confirmed they lied and were believed. Now there is no excuse. They must be held to account, impeached, disbarred..shamed. We know their colors.
What happens now, or used to happen, is when a decent person, a good person that works for people and in the name of the Constitution, gets to office and then then finds out that they "play or pay" or they reach a point where conscience kicks in, and they leave (or are fired)- then there is always someone, a "player" that will replace that person. And then there are those in the Congress who say- well he's the president and he should have who he wants serving him. And there you have it- the most corrupt administration ever. Shame on us.
I am thoroughly at a loss to understand how Blanche and Bondi have not been disbarred and had their law licenses revoked. I am no legal expert but it seems to me the evidence of total abrogation of oaths to the Constitution and the clearly unethical behaviors from both these individuals would be sufficient to initiate such proceedings. Who decides that? What is the purpose of the bar associations if not to hold such people accountable?
Cowardly State bar Associations.
Will Norm's group be working on the White House Lawn wresting cage removal? Now there's also the "trump promenade" which he wants to add to the Lincoln Memorial property.
"Bondi made clear that the decision to withhold 3 million files required by law to be released was not hers."
Talk about a CYA statement! Bondi was the Attorney General, the head of the Department of Injustice. Had she never heard Harry Truman's words, "the buck stops here?" Bondi and now Blanche have got to be the most incompetent people to be in charge of wielding the law. If the senate approves this nominee, they all deserve to be voted out for not looking after the welfare of the people and attention to justice.
I'm not sure anyone else who succeeds Blanche would be less corrupt, but he clearly is too biased and unqualified to handle the AG position. I hope the Republicans who have nothing left to lose defy Trump on this nomination. But what I really hope is that somewhere, whether in the United States or elsewhere, there's a clean copy of the Epstein files in the cloud, waiting to be downloaded and disseminated around the world. Some of the heaviest Kool-Aid drinking MAGA faithful would still stick with Trump, but when the scope of his involvement is known, he's finished as a political force. If he wasn't up to his eyeballs in the horrors of the Epstein affair, he would have proven that long ago. That he's gone to such great lengths to defy legislation and cover it up speaks volumes.
Let's stop kidding ourselves. Trump's obvious refusal to release those files adds weight to the suspicions that Trump is a habitual sex offender where his illegal and disgraceful behavior involved sex with minor children. What is this nation's blindness to this possibility saying about our care and value for minor children? It may also be a humiliating revelation that men with money and power were involved in Epstein's heinous business of supplying minor children to the sexual whims of helpless minor children including in some instances male children.
And he confirmed, to Marjorie Taylor Green, that releasing the files would hurt his friends. Even if he personally is not so involved, he is absolutely protecting the people who are.
I want the Senators to get him on record by asking
Do you believe in the rule of law?
Is the Constitution still the organizational basis for US society?
For and to whom does the Constitution apply?
THEN. Ask why he blatantly ignores the law (Epstein) and the Court’s orders.
The confirmation hearing needs to have a laser focus on this cover up because it proves he is unfit and every senator should be removed if they do not bring this up 😎
Be sue to tell that to the voters in your state. Midterms are coming up, and any GOP senator up for election needs to be challenged by a strong Dem/Progressive opponant. That is the way senators are removed and replaced.