“Oh, what a tangled web we weave . . . .” AG nominee Todd Blanche is snarled deep in a tangled web of his own making, and he and Republicans are covering up the messy tangle. That won’t last. The mess is too thick. The stink is too rank.
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1. Everybody hates both Trump’s crooked slush fund AND the crooked Trump family tax fraud amnesty, so Blanche weaseled a false answer that the slush fund was “DEAD.” But he wouldn’t put in writing. That’s a tell in general, and with lawyers’ weasel words in particular.
2. For instance, all Blanche said was that the Fund was dead and would not be set up. How do you weasel around that? Add one more collusive codicil to the crooked deal, and there’s a brand new vehicle for the $$$. “Hey, I said we wouldn’t use ‘the Fund,’ and we didn’t.”
3. Tillis and Cornyn trying to extract an actual end to the slush fund and the Trump tax fraud amnesty, and being rebuffed, proves that the promise was false. Trump wants BOTH, and weasel Blanche is stuck with his client’s decision. So he squirms. And lies.
4. He pretends he’s had no communication with “Trump’s lawyers.” Strange, since someone for DOJ “negotiated” the “deal.” Strange, since Trump’s lawyers spoke for DOJ in a pleading. Strange, since the federal judge found there was “collusion,” which takes both sides.
5. The slush fund was established in a document negotiated and signed between Blanche (signed by his stooge) and “Trump’s lawyers.” Where are the communications around that, which Blanche says he didn’t have?
Where’d the deal come from? Was it immaculate conception?
6. It gets thicker if someone appeals. Blanche (very weirdly) filed no DOJ pleadings in the case, probably to evade disciplinary action for the collusive “fraud on the court” problem he has. If he enters an appearance to appeal, BOOM, he’s solidly under the court’s authority.
7. If he doesn’t enter an appearance, and the “Trump lawyers” appeal for him, it’s a new chapter in the collusion. They have to practice in that court, and one of Trump’s lawyers has already been referred for bar discipline there, so they have their own problems to worry about.
8. Either way, the federal judge found collusion and sent her decision to NY Bar authorities, where Blanche already faces a complaint. Their investigation could expose the web. The judge reserved decision on “fraud on the court”; she too could investigate. And the Florida Bar.
9. The documents behind the scenes between the White House, “Trump’s lawyers,” and Blanche’s crooked DOJ as this collusive scam was cooked up, will be telling — likely damning. We’ve demanded the documents be preserved. No shredding, kiddies.
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“Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” Blanche had to lie, and lie about lies, and walked himself into box canyons of lying. They’re hiding documents, pretending they don’t exist, which would only worsen the collusion. The truth will out.
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