#impeach #25a

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche: "I just operate every day on doing everything I need to do to execute the president's agenda and priorities, and I'm not alone in that. I hope every single person that has the privilege to serve in this administration is doing the exact same thing."

"I'm not committing to anything" -- Acting AG Todd Blanche doesn't rule out invoking some sort of "privilege" to block Bondi from testifying to the House Oversight Committee

Acting AG Todd Blanche: "If you were a prosecutor, and you were trying to prosecute your boss, you have ethical duties as a lawyer that I think prevent you from continuing to work in that environment"

Q: Since Watergate, there has been a firewall between the White House and DOJ TODD BLANCHE: That is the most false statement I have ever heard in my life. There is always communication between a president and his priorities and what the DOJ should be focused on and not focused on

Acting AG Blanche: "As far as whether we would take a criminal referral from the White House -- Yes! If somebody knows about fraud, please tell us. So if the president says 'I heard there's fraud in Minneapolis,' like any president, I hope the AG would absolutely say, 'Yes, we'll investigate that.'"

CNBC: What do you say to people who are looking at these airfares and saying, 'Wait a second, I can't take my family to California this summer. It's ridiculous!' SEAN DUFFY: Thanks to President Trump and American energy dominance, we have a ton of energy in the US. This is short term

CNBC: There's growing chatter that one of the big four airlines could get even bigger and buy one of the smaller ones. Would you like to see that? SEAN DUFFY: President Trump loves to see big deals happen. He'd have to review it. But I think there's room for some mergers in the aviation industry

Trump in 2012: “Gas prices are at crazy levels--fire Obama!”

Apparently, Kathie Lee Gifford enjoys hanging out at Mar-a-Lago

Amazing -- the first question Todd Blanche takes as acting AG is about how he will handle President Trump pressuring him to prosecute his political foes, and Blanche doesn't deny the premise of the question!

Acting AG Todd Blanche makes stuff up: "If you look at people that happened to just walk by the president on a given day, they got subjected to massive investigations by this department."

Q: Didn't Pam Bondi lose her job because she's wasn't successful in prosecuting the president's political foes? TODD BLANCHE: Nobody has any idea why the attorney general and I'm the acting attorney general except for President Trump

Acting AG Todd Blanche: "I love working for President Trump. It's the greatest honor of a lifetime. And if President Trump chooses to nominate somebody else and asks me to go do something else, I'll say, 'Thank you very much, I love you, sir.'"

Q: On fraud, a firm tied to Kristi Noem got paid over $200,000 in taxpayer money. Is that something that would fall under the purview of this new fraud unit? TODD BLANCHE: You all have decided to write a lot about it hoping that it generates something

Q: Legal scholars have raised questions about bombing a nation's civilian infrastructure as possible war crimes. What is DOJ's analysis? TODD BLANCHE: We support the Department of War

Q: You said earlier that 'this DOJ has indicted President Trump 4 times.' You now run this department. Are you basing that on your experience as a defense lawyer for the president? TODD BLANCHE: What kind of question is that?

Q: Can you expand on your comment that nobody has any idea why Bondi is no longer the AG? It seems like it's a problem if you don't know what the president wants you to be doing better BLANCHE: That's an assumption baked into your question that I don't know is true

Hollywood should remove Trump’s star from the Walk of Fame as fast as America removed Cesar Chavez. 💁🏻‍♀️

The next time Trump asks, "who are you with," the reporter should respond, "I'm with the United States of America. Who are You with?"

The President is threatening genocide and possible use of nuclear weapons against Iran. It’s clear the President has continued to decline and is not fit to lead. The members of his Cabinet must invoke the 25th Amendment immediately.

Obviously the generals were all sacked because they advised against this madness.

We won't last 33 more months of this. This must stop. We must make it stop.

Rep. Ansari: "Donald Trump is trying to normalize language that essentially threatening genocide, threatening the potential use of nuclear weapons ... how is nobody trying to restrain this madman who is trying to get all of us killed. This is a nightmare scenario. It's apocalyptic."

They will obey. They always obey. That is why so many children have already been killed in Iran.

Ansari: "Every person in this country needs to be calling R members of Congress relentlessly. Of all of the issues that have come up over last year, all have been devastating, but we're talking about potential for nuclear war here. That is the language Trump is using & we shouldn't pretend it's not"

Rep. Sheri Biggs on Trump's threat that Iranian civilization will "die tonight": "This is peace through strength"

With approval ratings sinking and Republican nerves heightening, James Carville paints for us how this November will be one to remember. Watch the LP Pod here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd7OFR1hhvQ

We can have a real Senate impeachment trial for once. And with Republicans like Marjorie Taylor Greene already calling for Trump's removal, we can make it stick. From my conversation with @tarapalmeri.bsky.social

JD Vance: “Trump is a really bad candidate and frankly, I think, a really bad person.”

Georgia Voter: It's giving war crime. You can't do that. We don't just annihilate people because we can and, you know, make a grab for the money and the oil. And that's what we've done in Venezuela. And that's what we're doing in Iran.

Smith: He is clearly unfit to lead this country.

Smith: I think we're going to have to go straight to the voters to hold the Republicans accountable who have allowed Donald Trump to do all the damage that he has done.

ICYMI: @thetimes.com did a nice little profile on me "I think covering this stuff over the last decade has probably negatively affected my mental health just bc it’s pretty bleak most of the time. But I still get up and feel privileged in some ways to be able to cover historic events for a living."

Vance, at a rally with Orban, begins by getting Trump on the phone. Trump says, "remember this -- Viktor didn't allow people to storm your country and invade your country like other people have, and ruin your country frankly. He's kept your country good. He's kept Hungarian people in your country."

Trump on speaker phone at the Orban rally: "I just want to tell you I'm a big fan of Viktor, I'm with him all the way. The United States is with him all the way."

JD Vance: "We have got to get Viktor Orban reelected as prime minister of Hungary, don't we?"

The American Historical Association filed suit today against the president and several top Trump administration officials over a new Justice Department opinion claiming the administration can ignore the Presidential Records Act of 1978.

JD Vance: "The bureaucrats in Brussels, those people should not be listened to. Listen to your hearts, listen to your souls, and listen to the sovereignty of the Hungarian people."