Is Todd Blanche Simply Stupid or is He Evil? Or Both?
The emails center on Ed Martin Jr., the right-wing lawyer pushed out as acting U.S. Attorney for D.C. and then parked at DOJ headquarters to run the weaponization working group. Blanche wrote "I am frustrated" within a month, set up weekly check-ins, and reassigned investigative lanes to his own deputies. Hawk covers Martin's role in the Letitia James mortgage case, the January 6th review, and the Biden auto pen probe, complete with a look at what an auto pen actually is.
Along the way Hawk plays Andrew Weissmann on the one question he would ask Blanche, revisits Emil Bove's judicial…
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