'Extraordinarily Obnoxious': AG Nominee Blanche Faces Loaded Questions at Senate Confirmation Hearing

Posted by:

By Bob Hoge

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche faced the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday for confirmation hearings as Donald Trump’s pick to become the permanent AG. As you would expect, Democrats on the committee are trying to turn it into an anti-Trump theater production so they can get their MS NOW hits, and in at least one exchange about FBI Director Kash Patel over unsubstantiated rumors, their questions became “extraordinarily obnoxious.”

Blanche clapped back when the repellent Graham Platner cheerleader, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), took his time to personally attack Patel:

🚨 WOW! Attorney General Todd Blanche just MIC DROPPED insufferable Sen. Whitehouse (D) slandering Kash Patel

WHITEHOUSE: How long do you intend to PUT UP with that Kash Patel character? Are you good with his airplane jaunts, are you confident he's not DRINKING on the job, are you sure none of his travel is a pretext for vacation activities like [snorkeling Olympics and] visiting girlfriends? Are you sure he knows what he's doing?! Are you willing to look at whether he LIED to this committee?!

BLANCHE: That is an extraordinarily OBNOXIOUS question, senator! I have FULL FAITH in @FBIDirectorKash and the work he's doing EVERY DAY. 🔥

WHITEHOUSE: GREAT, you get to own that! 🤡

Hold strong, Director Patel!

Patel’s team took notice:

Boom.

Although it was Donald Trump’s team that released the Jeffrey Epstein files and it was Biden’s who kept them behind closed doors, Democrats have spent months trying to tie the president to the late pedophile’s dirty deeds despite little evidence. They’ve also long insinuated that Trump’s DOJ is involved in some sort of cover-up regarding the disturbing case, even though it was their own president who did little to shine a light on what happened.

Illinois Dem Sen. Dick Durbin tried to politicize the harm caused by Epstein by accusing Blanche of refusing to meet the victims:

Durbin: There are ten individuals who were [exploited and] abused by Mr. Epstein here today. [None of them] have had a chance to speak to anyone in the department or FBI, they've asked repeatedly. Can I get your word under oath that within the next 30 days, you will personally sit down [with] them?

Blanche: I have somebody from my office in charge of our task force investigating human trafficking. She's available to talk to them.

Durbin: Will you meet with these survivors?

Blanche: I'm prohibited from meeting directly with them.

Note: the transcript in the above social media post has been abbreviated. 

Durbin didn’t care much about the victims during Biden’s term, but now he’s hoping to use them as a “gotcha” party trick to kneecap Blanche’s confirmation. How noble.

Democrat Senators also tried to undermine Blanche’s credibility by insinuating that he was a deep personal friend of the president because, before his tenure at the DOJ, he had been Trump’s personal lawyer in previous legal cases. Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) humorously noted that a president would hardly appoint an enemy to the position:

🚨 JUST NOW: Democrats are melting down at Todd Blanche CRUSHING his AG confirmation hearing after he dropped this answer

SEN. KENNEDY: Are you and President Trump friends?

BLANCHE: I'm his lawyer — WAS his lawyer. Then the Deputy Attorney General. So I met him as his criminal defense attorney[...]

KENNEDY: Are you enemies?

BLANCHE: No, not at all

KENNEDY: Have you EVER seen a president of the US appoint an ENEMY to be Attorney General?

BLANCHE: I have not.

Confirm him now, HE'S QUALIFIED!

Blanche also faced questioning on Trump’s pardoning of J6 participants, sanctuary jurisdictions, the now-defunct “Anti‑Weaponization Fund," and mass firings at the DOJ.

While we’ve grown used to Democrats turning confirmation hearings into circus acts, Blanche must also win over virtually every Republican to get through, and that is not a sure thing:

It is a moment of rare leverage for the Senate. It takes a single Republican vote against Mr. Blanche to sink his nomination. Two lame-duck Republicans who sit on the committee, Senators Thom Tillis of North Carolina and John Cornyn of Texas, have repeatedly raised questions about Mr. Blanche’s role in creating a $1.8 billion fund for those claiming to be victims of actions by the Biden administration, and in shielding the president and his family from tax investigations.

Tillis is not seeking reelection in November, while Cornyn was defeated in his GOP primary by Trump-backed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

This one could go down to the wire.

Original Here

Join the Conversation!
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
We have a wonderful, active, and engaged community. Come join us in the comments section below! You'll need a Hyvor account (100% free) if you don't already have one. 
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐