AG Todd Blanche Warns Incoming Democrat Majority Will Reach Beyond Normal Oversight Of Trump, GOP

Attorney General Todd Blanche warned during a Sunday interview that Democrats have crossed the line from conducting congressional oversight to making “outright threats” against Republicans, donors, and students.

Speaking with CNN “State of the Union” host Dana Bash, Blanche criticized Democratic California Rep. Robert Garcia, the likely incoming House Oversight Committee chairman, for telling Trump administration officials to “lawyer up” after Democrats won majorities in both the House and Senate on Tuesday.

“[W]hat we have seen over the past several days, and even over the past several weeks, are outright threats, many by elected members of Congress and some senators, against anybody that’s conservative and anybody that happens to be a Republican,” Blanche said. “They have threatened donors. They have threatened individuals who are in college and might want to work for conservative institutions or for a conservative government or for President Trump. And that is extremely troubling, and it should be troubling to everybody in this country.”

“And over the last several days, we have seen the rhetoric even rise up, to the point where, … before they’re even in power, they’re already talking about investigations and impeachments, with no basis, no facts, just out there running around,” Blanche added. “That should be something that President Trump is very concerned about, and certainly I am as well.”

Trump directed the Department of Justice to probe the Democrats’ “criminal act,” a Truth Social post he issued Saturday reads. “This is extortion at the highest level.”

Bash then pushed back on Blanche, and asked if he is concerned about Democrats using their constitutional oversight role to investigate the administration.

“Wait, wait, wait, wait. No, no, no, no, no,” Blanche cut in to dispute Bash’s framing. “They have a very unique role in oversight. I agree. Have you been listening to the rhetoric the past couple days?” Blanche asked Bash. “You honestly think that all they’re doing is talking about their oversight obligations when they’re talking about going after basically every member of the Cabinet, they’re talking about impeachments, they’re talking about going after companies, private companies who happen to have made investments in this country over the past couple of years?”

“That is not oversight, he added. “I welcome oversight. Oversight is exactly something they should be doing. “

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