Ted Cruz says GOP senators were ‘screaming’ at Todd Blanche during ‘anti-weaponization’ fund briefing

Maybe these angry senators should write some conflict of interest bills to stop Trump from appointing his personal cronies to positions of power?

This is the scene of the Lion King where the hyenas turn on Scar

I don’t give a single shit what Republicans do behind closed doors. Until they do the same in public and actually take action, they are obsequious cowards who’ve abandoned their oaths.

Oh they so mad….then all of a sudden it gets approved.

Of course the GOP would be angry the math doesn’t add up.

You are willing to upset millions of voters during a midterm year to appease a few thousand people who most likely were already going to vote for you or can’t because they have a felon conviction so they can’t vote even if they wanted to.

Republicans then have to go back to their districts and explain why a bunch of people who attacked the US and served jail time for their crimes deserve to get paid on top of a pardon.

This is also coming from the party of fiscal responsibility by the way. The party that has been screaming for nearly 50 years on how we gotta pull ourselves up by the boot straps and personality responsibility.

Republicans are going to face a political tsunami and that was before this vague as hell slush fund.

Ted Cruz is fine with it.

The thing about pardons is…accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt. How can you claim that you are a victim of malicious prosecution when you have already admitted your guilt in that prosecution?

On the one hand, I love this for Blanche.

On the other hand, these GOP lickspittles facilitated this every step of the way. What the fuck did they expect?

“Why didn’t you get $10B!?” – TC

But they will vote to confirm him

They don’t need to be screaming, they need to do ✨oversight✨

Cruz is a cuck

they just want a cut

Yet no Congressional representative stopped the madness, so they are all complicit. You either hold the president and DOJ accountable or you are part of the problem!

Probably cheering him on.

It’s all about what you say and how you say it.

Bunch of quislings.

“What do we say to the cameras to make it sound like we’re taking this seriously?”

Ted “Aviv” Cruz

Oh no! I hope he’s ok. Or not. 🤷‍♀️

Fuck Ted Cruz…

That said:

The DOJ is compromised and Todd Blanche is a walking conflict of interest.

Aside from being Trump’s personal lawyer (so much for “merit” based hiring), he’s overseen the Justice Department’s transformation into Trump’s personal, dedicated legal arm and has stripped the agency of all civil servants not loyal to the president.

All that’s left are staunch, pro-Trump sycophants who, if it comes down to it, will not hesitate to choose him and his interests over the rule of law.

Trump’s own DOJ, which now serves at his behest, was supposed to *defend* the IRS in Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against his own government, not work in tandem with the president to negotiate a settlement on his behalf that would establish a slush fund for his own secret use.

Another aspect of this whole scheme that isn’t being discussed enough is the process by which the lawsuit turned into a “anti-weaponization” fund paid for by the American taxpayer.

The judge in the case argued that it had no legs because it lacked “adverseness” and was constitutionally invalid.

In other words, there was no dispute between parties because Trump was opposing himself.

> “There must be an honest and actual antagonistic assertion of rights by one individual against another, which is neither feigned nor collusive.”

The judge gave Trump and his attorneys a deadline to explain themselves.

They couldn’t…

So two days before that deadline, Trump dropped the suit specifically to avoid the judge ruling that the whole case was constitutionally unsound.

The judge was about to pull the rug out from underneath Trump when the DOJ negotiated the $1,776 BILLION “settlement.”

The case had no ground to stand on in the first place. But Todd Blanche and Trump’s corrupt DOJ found a way around that by concocting a scheme to create a taxpayer financed slush fund for him, his corrupt cohorts and his violent followers.

The other question that’s not being asked enough is, if Trump was the supposed victim of the tax leak, why is everyone except Trump getting a payout?

And the answer only makes sense when you consider the corruption involved.

The judge was about to rule that Trump couldn’t sue his own government. The case was going to die and Trump would have nothing to show for it.

The problem is he couldn’t take the money himself because it would amount to clear cut violation of the Emoluments Clause, for which Trump would be undoubtedly impeached.

So instead, the “settlement” was restructured so that, on its face, Trump receives no money but gets in return:

Immunity in perpetuity from the IRS; permanently barring the agency from ever auditing him, his family or his businesses again

And of course, $1.776 billion flowing to a slush fund he secretly controls. And a fund no less run by a commission that his own crooked AG appoints and can fire at will.

Blanche has also said this:

> “There isn’t a single man or woman with a gun, federal agent, still in that organization that had anything to do with the prosecution of President Trump.”

In other words, Blanche fired any DOJ official who has ever been remotely close to an investigation or legal case that has sought to hold Trump accountable for his crimes, corruption and misconduct.

Kash Patel has been reported to have done the same.

I know this might be difficult for MAGA to understand, but the DOJ is supposed to operate independently of the president, not at his every beck and call.

Blanche is cronyism personified. And this particular crony is now tasked with managing a severely compromised justice department that he helped convert into the law offices of Donald J Trump, Esquire.

There’s also his role in trying to orchestrate a cover up with Ghislaine Maxwell by offering her limited immunity and dangling the possibility of a pardon in front of her in exchange for public statements absolving Trump and a transfer to a minimum security, cushy prison to facilitate her cooperation with the government.

This is the same Maxwell that Trump expressed sympathy for during a press conference after she was arrested in 2020:

> “I just wish her well, frankly. I’ve met her numerous times over the years, especially since I lived in Palm Beach, and I guess they lived in Palm Beach. But I wish her well, whatever it is.”

Blanche was charged with interviewing Maxwell as part of the justice department’s cover Trump’s ass initiative.

It is VERY unusual for the second highest ranking DOJ official to meet personally with a criminal convicted of conspiracy and sex trafficking of minors.

The DOJ offered her “proffer immunity;” allowing her to speak openly without fear of her statements being used against her in the future.

This type of immunity is usually followed by a cooperation deal.

This was clearly part of an effort to negotiate for Maxwell’s cooperation and control what information she might spill to the public.

Blanche is just another devout loyalist who will jump when Trump says jump, and who will submit to Trump’s every deranged and autocratic whim without question.

The lawyers in the Broadview Six (now Four) hearing in Chicago where *expansive* prosecutorial misconduct was revealed this week specifically made a request for the “weaponization compensation fund” money to fund what the judge was calling in court “vindictive prosecution” and the AUSAs were all tripping over each other to throw someone else under the bus because this case is SO ugly and involves what the judge characterized as the worst prosecutorial misconduct she’s seen in her entire career that was apparently (grand jury transcripts will *probably* be released, which is hella unusual) politically motivated.

I expect some of the GOP screaming is that after the bombshell hearing was released, motions are being filed everywhere ICE has worked with federal prosecutors to gin up charges against protestors or regular citizens going about their business to seek grand jury transcripts and evidence of political weaponization of the grand jury process by prosecutors. If they manage to actually set this fund up, there’s going to be a tsunami of claims against it from people victimized by Trump’s justice department because *his lawyers are neither good at their jobs nor subtle*, and as you go further down the chain into state US Attorneys offices, it appears to get more and more and more blatant. And there are *plenty* of judges who are going to say “if this fund exists, then yes, this person who was prosecuted by Trump’s justice department where we have extensive recorded evidence of misconduct is entitled to compensation from it.”

It was pretty interesting to watch how fast the federal prosecutors were flinging each under the bus. They tried to dismiss the case in the middle of the night so the judge (and defendents) wouldn’t demand the grand jury transcripts. The judge called out their “mea culpa” in court as being fairly obviously fictional and undermined by all of their actual actions, and mentioned repeatedly that they failed in their duty of candor to the court. Then individual lawyers for the defendents were bringing receipts of obviously false and defamatory things the prosecution said about them in the media, and e-mails the prosecution sent them that directly contradicted what they were saying in court. (And the defense had basically ten minutes’ notice that the transcripts were originally provided to the judge redacted not because of “IT issues” but because of an attempt to hide misconduct and the hearing was not going to be dull.)

This was a bunch of lower-level attorneys tasked with carrying out the DOJ’s will who all looked at this and went, “Oh, shit, we got caught, this is really bad, I’m going get disbarred. There’s only so much room on the Fox News gravy train and Trump is dying, I’m fucked.” They sent a kid just out of law school up as the “prosecutor” who ran the grand jury when he did so under a 20-year veteran, who said it was just his second grand jury hearing (the first being for something routine) and didn’t realize the “process was not being followed.” Extra classy.

It involved such novel forms of attorney misconduct that the judge’s chambers were unable to find applicable case law before the hearing.

Anyway one assumes the Senate GOP got prior notice shit was about to go down and then when shit went down and part of their objection to the slush fund is what a huge target it is for people who have actually been maliciously prosecuted.

Ted Cruz was probably overjoyed to have everyone in the Senate’s ire directed at someone else for a change. 

Same old story. Everyone is up in arms now, but when it comes time to vote, everyone gets in line.

> ‘anti-weaponization’ fund

Got to be the most Orwellian name they’ve come up with so far.