Todd Blanche Goes on Fox News for Some Big Lying

Pointing out and correcting all of the lies, the propaganda, and the misinformation coming out of the Trump administration is an impossible task, especially for a small, nonprofit news organization*. It’s like trying to stop a tsunami with beach toys designed for building sand castles.

However, when it comes to exposing Donald Trump’s Big Lie, we will never yield an inch because it is the most dangerous of his fabrications and gnaws at the heart of US democracy.

And that brings us to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Fox News host Maria Bartiromo.

On Sunday, the two election deniers got together on Bartiromo’s show to talk about Trump’s loss in 2020.

Of course, that’s not how they see things.

In fact, Bartiromo’s views on the election are a big reason why Fox News was forced to settle a lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems for nearly $800 million that the company had brought against the right-wing propaganda outlet.

But she just cannot let it go, which is why she invited Blanche to talk about the “Russia collusion hoax,” which is what Trump supporters call Vladimir Putin’s well-documented efforts to influence the 2016 election to keep Hillary Clinton out of the White House, and the 2020 race.

Since we recently pointed out the ridiculousness of the former, we’ll focus on the latter today.

“The president says all the time that the election was rigged,” Bartiromo said. “What have you done about that?”

Obviously, Trump says a lot of things that are totally made up – whether it’s that he’ll introduce a healthcare plan in two weeks, that Iran bombed its own school, that the Strait of Hormuz is open, and that he is 6’3” and weights 215 lbs.

When he does, it is usually up to his minions to back up those lies, and that’s precisely what Blanche, who served as the president’s former personal attorney before getting a job at the Department of Justice (DOJ), did.

“There is a ton of evidence that the election was rigged,” Blanche said. “That’s not something the DOJ needs to tell you about. There has been evidence about that for many, many years.”

None of that is true. There is not “a ton of evidence.” That’s not for a lack of trying to find it, by the way. The president and his cronies, as well as millions of MAGA “sleuths,” have spent years trying to prove that Joe Biden stole the election.

And yet, they have come up empty. Trump has lost dozens of court challenges, and even the audits in red states have shown nothing close to resembling any of the allegations the president and his team have made.

Still, Blanche said DOJ is conducting “multiple investigations,” which makes one wonder why the government is wasting resources on this quixotic quest.

The acting attorney general also had an explanation as to why this evidence has proven to be so elusive.

“By the way, this is very difficult because they’re very good,” he said. “They are very good at hiding misconduct and hiding what they are doing.”

Well, either that, or all of those allegations of fraud are bogus.

After all, Trump and others have made some very specific accusations about mysteriously appearing votes, Italian satellites, bamboo ballots, and other nonsense.

The fact that nobody has been charged in those and other cases tells all.

Blanche maintains this is because “it takes a lot of good old-fashioned law enforcement police work.”

However, he assured Bartiromo and her audience that “as soon as we have something to say for it, whether it’s charges, whether it’s a report, whether it’s the results of an investigation, the American people will learn about what we uncovered.”

And that gets to the heart of the matter.

The goal here is not to charge anybody with the kind of election fraud that would have swung the race Trump’s way (although it is possible that DOJ, which apparently has nothing better to do, may drum up some charges down the road); it’s to maintain the con.

Therefore, it’s very likely that the administration will release a “report” or the “results of an investigation” before the election that will keep the base riled up but prove absolutely nothing.

That is also why Blanche was evasive whenever Bartiromo attempted to get him to say something specific, e.g., whether he had seen evidence of this fraud.

Instead of giving her the answer she was clearly looking for, he merely said that the administration had already charged “dozens” of people with voting illegally and was investigating “a ton more.”

It better be quite a few people because Trump lost the election by seven million, fifty-nine thousand, five hundred and twenty-six votes.

When Bartiromo tried again and asked whether we will ever have a definitive answer as to whether the election was stolen, Blanche deflected again.

“I’m not going to answer that there will be a definitive answer,” he said. “That wouldn’t be fair to you or anybody else, but we are looking at it, and we are hoping to get one.”

Well, we have great news for Todd and Maria: that definitive answer has been out there for more than five years now – they, and especially the president, just don’t like it.

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