Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday held a press conference to announced the creation of the “National Fraud Enforcement Division,” which will “zealously investigate and prosecute those who steal taxpayer dollars and rip off the American people.”
This is Todd Blanche’s first presser after he took over as Acting Attorney General following Trump’s decision to fire Pam Bondi.
“What we saw, and what President Trump went through, every single prosecutor in this department, you have a duty to do the right thing,” Blanche said.
“You have prosecutors who are absolutely not doing the right thing,” he said. What happened the last four years is something that will never happen again.”
A reporter asked Blanche about his comment on Biden’s weaponized DOJ.
“You said earlier that this Department of Justice has indicted President Trump times. Can you explain what you base that statement on?” the reporter asked Blanche.
Blanche roasted the reporter.
“What kind of a question is that?” Blanche said.
“He got indicted 4 times. He got indicted in Florida, and then he got indicted in D.C., and then they superseded in Florida, and then they superseded in D.C,” he said.
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In June 2023, Jack Smith indicted Trump on 37 federal counts in Miami for lawfully storing presidential records at his Mar-a-Lago estate which was protected by Secret Service agents.
In July 2023 Jack Smith hit Trump with 3 additional charges in the investigation into classified documents stored at Mar-a-Lago. The superseding indictment, filed in the Southern District of Florida, claims Trump was part of a scheme to delete security footage from Mar-a-Lago.
In September 2023 Trump was hit with 4 counts in Jack Smith’s January 6 case up in DC: Conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.
Jack Smith moved to dismiss both cases and said due to the nature of the immunity afforded a sitting President, it does not require dismissal with prejudice.
“As a result of the election held on November 5, 2024, the defendant, Donald J. Trump, will be inaugurated as President on January 20, 2025. It has long been the position of the Department of Justice that the United States Constitution forbids the federal indictment and subsequent criminal prosecution of a sitting President,” Jack Smith wrote.
“After careful consideration, the department has determined that [the Office of Legal Counsel’s] prior opinions concerning the Constitution’s prohibition on federal indictment and prosecution of a sitting president apply to this situation and that as a result this prosecution must be dismissed before the defendant is inaugurated,” Smith wrote.
“That prohibition is categorical and does not turn on the gravity of the crimes charged, the strength of the government’s proof, or the merits of the prosecution, which the government stands fully behind,” Jack Smith wrote in the government’s motion to dismiss reviewed by The Gateway Pundit.
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