President Donald Trump's Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche was enraged Thursday that The New York Times didn't use the entirety of a quote he provided on their latest reporting about the prosecutions of Columbia University protesters.
The Times article paints a picture of high-ranking Trump officials clashing with career prosecutors and law enforcement officials disturbed by what they saw as the weaponization of the justice system against students for expressing political opinions about the bloody war taking place in Gaza.
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“This is a false story fabricated by a group of people who allowed antisemitism and support of Hamas terrorists to fester for several years, standing by but doing nothing,” Blanche stated in the quote The Times provided in the story.
But Blanche, taking to X after publication, complained that he said a lot more than that.
"The @nytimes chopped up my quote to fit their false narrative leaked from the DOJ Deep State ... again," wrote Blanche. "Here's what they didn’t want readers to see: a clear, direct condemnation of antisemitism and support for terrorism. We’re not playing their game."
The rest of the quote had Blanche citing evidence from the warrant targeting Columbia University Apartheid Divest, including a photograph of a pro-Hamas inverted triangle symbol painted on Columbia property, as well as a magistrate judge finding "probable cause" that some members of the protest group were "harboring and concealing illegal aliens."
Despite Blanche's remarks, The Times reported that a number of lower-level prosecutors in the Justice Department weren't comfortable moving ahead with that investigation, which has currently "stalled."
The investigation, according to the report, triggered "anger and alarm among career prosecutors and investigators who saw the demand as politically motivated and lacking legal merit," according to sources within the department, resulting in a "clash" and an uprising of lawyers in the Civil Rights division.
Further, "The demand for the inquiry into students who protested Israel’s conduct of the conflict in Gaza also prompted pushback from a federal magistrate judge, who believed some of the steps being sought by the official, Emil Bove III, were unjustified and might violate the First Amendment, the people said."
The @nytimes chopped up my quote to fit their false narrative leaked from the DOJ Deep State...again. Here's what they didn’t want readers to see: a clear, direct condemnation of antisemitism and support for terrorism. We’re not playing their game.
Full quote below.👇 pic.twitter.com/BCmcTW82HZ
— Todd Blanche (@DAGToddBlanche) May 1, 2025