Cosplaying The Boss

Reporter: Any update on who you want to lead DOJ?

Trump: Todd is doing a fantastic job. He’s a great lawyer. I know that because he’s been with me a long time. We have incredible people in the DOJ who are getting better all the time. pic.twitter.com/I4FYZPiUqH

— Acyn (@Acyn) April 13, 2026

 If you think slinging bullshit is doing a great job:

Asked in an interview with NBC News about a communication Trump sent to then-Attorney General Pam Bondi in which he publicly implored her to indict several of his political enemies, Blanche said it was an example of the president being upfront with the American people and making his "high expectations" clear.

"That type of communication from President Trump should make every American happy," Blanche said. "It means that there's an executive, a chief executive, that is making sure every one of his Cabinet members are working as hard as they should."

At serving the chief executive? Where, exactly , is that listed in the presidential duties outlined in Article. II? "Faithfully execute the laws” is not the same thing as “faithfully use the laws to execute your enemies.”

Blanche became the acting head of the Justice Department this month after Trump fired Bondi, in part, because the president was frustrated that she did not have more success in prosecutions of his political foes, NBC News reported.

Yeah, pesky legal system kept getting in the way. Turns out Trump’s authority only extends to a supine Congress, and isn’t recognized by most of the judiciary (the Sinister Six excluded).

He described Trump as "my boss" and said the investigations into Trump’s political enemies were only a small part of the Justice Department's overall work.

The bulk of the DOJ's work now is recruiting enough attorneys to do the job, because too much of DOJ’s work was prosecuting Trump’s political enemies (a little goes a long way ), and convincing the courts that DOJ can be trusted again. Because even the Solicitor General got his ass handed to him in the birthright citizenship arguments, and trial courts are full blown disgusted.

“There is outsized focus” on those probes, “because they involve individuals that the president has had significant issues — for good reason, by the way, within the past that will continue the rest of the time he’s president,” Blanche said.

That you even say that out loud is the most disturbing thing I’ve ever heard from a USAG.

Directing the Justice Department, he said, is "what being the commander in chief is about."

Alright, second most disturbing thing. This one’s worse.

The Justice Department also failed to indict six sitting members of Congress over a social media video that Trump labeled “SEDITIOUS” because it encouraged members of the military and intelligence communities not to obey unlawful orders. Grand jurors rejected the claims.

Blanche said Tuesday the failed investigations showed “that we’re working hard.”

Any other supervisory prosecuting attorney who said that would be shitcanned before the sunset. Trump is stupid enough to think this is just fine.

"It could be that the grand jury just made the wrong decision," he said, speaking broadly about failed indictments. "The grand jurors don't get everything right, just like nobody gets everything right all the time. So some of those, it's a tough case, and some of those were continuing to investigate. You don't have to just take a 'no true bill' from a grand jury and walk away."

I’m pretty sure in some cases the DOJ didn’t; so they racked up a few more  no bills on the same cases. Truly an admirable milestone of doing what Trump demanded: wasting time and money and court resources, on what never should have been pursued in the first place. The legal standards of reasonable suspicion and probable cause exist for a reason; as do grand juries. But while double jeopardy doesn’t attach to a no bill, going before multiple grand juries until you “win” is hardly proof that the system is working the way it should. It’s much more reflects the effort of the chief executive to bend the system to his will.

Tell us, AG Blanche, how’s that working out?

Blanche on Tuesday promised to prioritize what the Trump administration has called the “weaponization” of the Justice Department by Democrats against Trump, his allies and some right-wing groups.

By weaponizing the DOJ against Trump’s he, thereby trying to inoculate their efforts from the same criticism.  The famous legal defense of “HE STARTED IT!,” heard on playgrounds around the country.

But Blanche is expected to run into the same issues as Bondi; subpoenas for the Federal Reserve and Chairman Jerome Powell were blocked by a federal judge, and cases against New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey were dismissed by a judge. The Justice Department is, however, weighing whether to try again on Comey, NBC News reported.

Because the statute of limitations shouldn’t stand in the way of Trump punishing his enemies?

Last week, in his first public appearance as acting attorney general, he insisted the Justice Department was not focused on going after Trump’s political enemies.

And since then he’s had a “come to Jesus”? I’m sorry, that should be: “come to Trump cosplaying a Red Cross doctor with miraculous healing powers.”

He is Blanche’ client boss, after all.