00:00At an April 8th press conference, a reporter asked you a question about President Trump's desire
00:06to see his perceived political enemies prosecuted. You answered, quote, that is his right and indeed
00:15it is his duty to do that. The DOJ has sued 30 states seeking their voter lists. 14 of those
00:26lawsuits have been resolved by federal judges. Mr. Blanche, did any of those 14 federal court
00:33judges from across the country agree with DOJ's legal position? Again, yes or no? With some of the
00:43legal positions, yes. Welcome, Mr. Blanche. To ensure the fitness to serve of all nominees who come
00:51before any of my committees, I asked the following two initial questions. Since you became a legal
00:57adult, have you ever made unwanted requests for sexual favors or committed any verbal or
01:04physical harassment or assault of a sexual nature? No, Senator. Have you ever faced discipline
01:10or entered into a settlement relating to this kind of conduct? No, Senator. Mr. Blanche, over
01:17the course of the past five months, the New Mexico Department of Justice has talked to your staff
01:25about getting access to information for its investigation into alleged crime at Jeffrey Epstein's
01:33Zorro Ranch. Will you and your team continue to cooperate with the New Mexico Department of Justice
01:41Justice and help it get the information it needs? Yes, we're continuing to work with them, and yes.
01:49Thank you. Mr. Blanche, at an April 8th press conference, a reporter asked you a question about
01:55President Trump's desire to see his perceived political enemies prosecuted. You answered, quote,
02:03that is his right and indeed it is his duty to do that. To clarify, Mr. Blanche, do you believe
02:12it is
02:13the president's right and duty to order the investigation or prosecution of his perceived
02:19enemies? Yes or no? I can't answer that yes or no. That wasn't the question, and my answer was that
02:25as
02:25the president of the United States under Article 2, he's in charge of the Department of Justice,
02:31and so my answer reflects that idea, not that he has a right to go after his political enemies.
02:36Reclaiming my time, I think that what the president meant was pretty clear, and I just wanted to know
02:41whether you thought that that is indeed his right and duty to prosecute his perceived enemies, so let
02:51me get to that. Investigations of the president's perceived enemies aren't theoretical. They are happening.
02:59For example, last August, President Trump posted on social media that George Soros should be charged
03:07with RICO. Weeks later, one of your deputies directed several U.S. attorneys' offices to investigate
03:15Soros' charitable foundations for violating the RICO statute. Mr. Blanche, to confirm,
03:25were the U.S. attorneys' offices asked to launch these investigations because of the president's post?
03:33Yes or no? I'm not even confirming that they were asked to do that, but most certainly not because of
03:39any truth from President Trump. Well, the president definitely, excuse me, the president definitely
03:42posted that he should be, Mr. Soros should be charged with RICO, and lo and behold, several weeks later,
03:49that is exactly what your office sought to have done. Since last year, DOJ has sued 30 states seeking
03:59their voter lists. 14 of those lawsuits have been resolved by federal judges. Mr. Blanche, did any of
04:09those 14 federal court judges from across the country agree with DOJ's legal position? Again, yes or no?
04:19With some of the legal positions, yes. Pardon? The answer to the question is yes. Some of the judges
04:27agreed with some of our legal positions, and most of those cases are under appeal? Actually,
04:36that's not correct. The answer is actually no. These 14 federal judges, some of them were Trump appointees,
04:42disagreed with DOJ's position in terms of getting access to these voter rolls. It's all part of DOJ's
04:50attempt and with the president's attempt at election interference.
04:57We know that federal judges are a problem for you, certainly a problem for President Trump, because
05:04they actually care about facts and evidence. And that's why last fall, at a Federalist Society event,
05:12you called for young lawyers, at that event, to join you in fighting a war. And you said,
05:18we need you, because it's a war, and it's something we will not win unless we keep on fighting.
05:24The war that you were talking about was against federal judges who were ruling against the
05:32administration, correct? No.
05:37Well, then do you believe that judges should be impeached based on their rulings against this
05:47administration and the president? Yes or no? No. No, I don't believe that.
05:55On that, you disagree with the president, because he believes judges should be impeached for
05:59disagreeing with them. President Trump sees DOJ not only as a tool to attack his enemies,
06:08but also useful for helping his friends. To that end, on May 18th, you signed an attorney general order
06:15establishing funding and setting out requirements for the so-called anti-weaponization fund.
06:24Correct? You signed such an order? Yes, I did sign that document. Yes.
06:29Have you rescinded that order? Yes. The order is no longer in effect. There is no weaponization fund. Correct.
06:35That is not my question. My question is, did you rescind that order? Yes. I'm doing it under oath right
06:39now. It does not exist.
06:41You know, when you answer that there is no fund, that is not rescinding the order, because you can resurrect
06:47that order at any time. So actually, your answer is no, you have not rescinded that order.
06:52Mr. Blanche, one of your first acts as a deputy attorney general was to issue a memo eviscerating DOJ's enforcement
07:01work against crypto criminals.
07:04Crypto crime surged in 2025. Mr. Blanche, are you aware that Americans reported over $11 billion in crypto fraud losses
07:16to the FBI last year?
07:19Mr. Blanche, crypto enforcement is way up compared to a year and a half ago. So I didn't eviscerate anything.
07:24To the contrary, actually, we empowered AUSAs around the country to go after criminals in the right circumstances.
07:32Mr. Blanche.
07:32And we continue to do it.
07:36I take it you are not aware that there were reports of over $11 billion in crypto fraud reported to
07:43the FBI. That was my question. Are you aware or are you not aware?
07:48Are you talking about the fraud that we have prosecuted?
07:51No, I'm talking about the $11 billion worth of crypto crime. This is a pretty good, simple question.
07:57I just don't understand. Are you or are you not aware? But it doesn't seem you're aware because you're making
08:02all kinds of excuses. The fact is that we, crypto enforcement, you eviscerated that work that your department is supposed
08:13to be doing.
08:13And so anyway, Mr. Blanche, when you issued your memo ending crypto crime enforcement, you held significant amounts of cryptocurrency
08:22yourself. And I sent you several letters asking you about it. And I am still awaiting your answer.
08:32Mr. Blanche, Mr. Blanche, it is clear to me that your leadership is going to be a continuation of what
08:39we have seen so far at the Trump Department of Justice, or more likely to be called the Department of
08:45Retribution and Corruption.
08:47You see nothing wrong with the president treating DOJ as his own personal law firm to use as a weapon
08:54against his perceived enemies and as a way of helping his friends and as a tool to interfere with the
09:01upcoming elections.
09:03The states run elections in this country, but you want to insert DOJ at every step of the process, suing
09:11the states with frivolous claims and sending threatening letters to secretaries of state.
09:17You want to suppress the votes of American citizens who will have a chance to resoundingly reject the president's corruption
09:25at the ballot box this November.
09:28You signed a memo eviscerating DOJ's cryptocurrency enforcement work leading to a surge in Americans being victimized by cryptocurrency fraud.
09:39You also championed a slush fund for the president's allies who attacked police officers on January 6th.
09:46From the beginning we all knew that that's what this fund was for, but now we have findings of fact
09:52from a federal judge concluding that the fund came out of a fake lawsuit filed solely to lend an air
10:02of legitimacy to the president's attempt to compensate his insurrectionist allies.
10:08You played a key role in attempting to perpetuate this fraud on American taxpayers, and you oversaw the botched release
10:18of the Epstein files denying justice once again to survivors who have been waiting so long for it.
10:26You have no business being the attorney general of the United States of America.
10:30I certainly urge my colleagues to vote against your confirmation.
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