Blanche Denies Pressure as DOJ Chief to Go After Trump’s Enemies

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, newly minted as the nation’s top law enforcement officer, said he doesn’t feel pressure to carry out retribution against Donald Trump’s political enemies even as he pledged fidelity to the president’s agenda.

“It is true that some of” the thousands of investigations and prosecutions the DOJ is managing “involve men, women and entities that the president in the past has had issues with and that he believes should be investigated,” Blanche said Tuesday during his first press conference since Trump named him to run the department until a permanent replacement is found for Pam Bondi, who was fired last week. “That is his right and, indeed, it is his duty to do that,” Blanche said. “And so I do not view this as pressure.”