Raskin: "It doesn't give me a lot of comfort that Todd Blanche is now the acting AG. This is the guy who transferred Ghislaine Maxwell from the higher security prison to the low security prison camp in Texas."
Regarding Todd Blanche: It is probably a good time to recall that he literally ordered up the kidnapping of the Mayor of New Jersey's biggest city.
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Trump’s comments last night about “Obama’s Iran deal” were simply wrong. It wasn’t perfect, but it capped uranium enrichment at 3.67%. Since Trump scrapped it, Iran has enriched to 60%—much closer to weapons-grade. And that stockpile still hasn’t been eliminated.
Todd Blanche, the new Acting US Attorney General, previously shut down DOJ crypto investigations while personally having at least $150k invested in crypto:
Fire Noem. Fire Bondi. Fire Tulsi. Fire Hegseth and Rubio. The problem will always still be you. We don’t like you.
Five years in office, eight Trump attorneys general:
1️⃣ Jeff Sessions
2️⃣ Todd Rosenstein (acting, 1 day)
3️⃣ Matthew Whitaker (acting)
4️⃣ William Barr
5️⃣ Jeffrey Rosen (acting)
6️⃣ James McHenry (acting)
7️⃣ Pam Bondi
8️⃣ Todd Blanche (acting)
The now-acting Attorney General, Todd Blanche, has been the driving force behind the DOJ going after hospitals and schools - and even private businesses - which support trans people.
🚀 Ukraine: Fire Point FP-7 Pelican Ballistic Missile with a 300km range and 250kg warhead. (Pictured)
FP-9 will reach Moscow with its 850km range and an 800kg warhead.
(1,750 lb warhead)
Curiosity kills cats, but only proverbially🐱
In Ukraine, amongst the brave defenders, every animal feels safe and playful❤️
Reminder that acting AG Todd Blanche spoke at CPAC. It was unthinkable in the past for a DOJ attorney to participate in partisan politics.
Worse, he boasted that every federal officer "with a gun" (FBI agents & others) who had participated in any Trump investigation had now been fired.
True scum.
Breaking News: The President fires Pam Bondi and inserts Todd Blanche as acting Attorney General of the Justice Department. ICYMI, we chronicled some of Blanche’s business and ethical dealings here. www.propublica.org/article/todd...
If you think acting AG Todd Blanche looks like a stereotypical mob lawyer, it's because he literally is a mob lawyer.
Bondi. Noem. Gone.
Pattern? Not subtle.
Women out first—
while Patel, Hegseth, and Howard Lutnick skate untouched—even with Epstein smoke in the air.
This isn’t accountability.
It’s selective sacrifice.
They don’t fire the worst.
They fire who they can afford to lose.
More cover-up & Double Standard
"Next winter is six months away. Ukraine was forced to become Europe's laboratory for district heating under a hybrid attack. And the question today is whether Europe absorbs those lessons before it has to learn them firsthand," writes Miro Sedlak, Senior energy sector executive, in this op-ed.
In the last 24 hours
1. Judge skeptical about Hegseth's press crap
2. Judge lets DOGE depositions back online
3. Judge blocks Trump defunding NPR/PBS
4. Judge blocks Trump attack on ESA
5. Judge blocks Trump's ballroom
Russian Z-blogger Romanov cautiously admits that the losses of Putin’s army in Ukraine indeed amount to 30,000 killed per month. Ukrainians are steadily moving toward the figure of 50,000 that was mentioned by the new Defense Minister Fedorov.
Quick reminder Todd Blanche, the guy who interviewed Ghislaine Maxwell, leading to her upgrade to Club Fed, is the same guy who just got the job as Attorney General. We’re looking at a pardon, folks.
#EpsteinFiles
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“At that time, there was already considerable frustration between Ukraine and the United States.
Because we were asking them for weapons and sanctions, but they weren’t providing either weapons or sanctions.”
— Dmytro Kuleba, describing his meeting with Antony Blinken in 2021
Video: Dmytro Gordon
