MAGA appears to be turning on one of President Donald Trump's most loyal attorneys, which could spell trouble for the embattled official, according to a new report.
Will Sommer of The Bulwark reported on Monday that MAGA appears to be turning on Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who was Trump's criminal defense attorney during his New York fraud trial. MAGA loyalists allege that Blanche is holding up a "Maxwell-like deal" for Tina Peters, a Trump ally who is serving a prison sentence for allowing a Trump-aligned conspiracy theorist to steal voter data from Colorado.
"Blanche has become the target of a right-wing media campaign pushing for his ouster," Sommer reported. "His accusers blame him for, among other things, holding up a Maxwell-like arrangement for Tina Peters, a conspiracy theorist and former county clerk in Colorado sentenced last fall to nine years in prison for letting another conspiracy theorist copy hard drives of voter data and post the stolen materials to his website."
"And in an administration that takes many of its cues from right-wing media, that might spell trouble for even entrenched Trump loyalists like Blanche," he continued.
Sommer reported that Blanche's position at the Department of Justice makes him vulnerable to attacks from the MAGA base because of Trump's refusal to release the Epstein files.
"No one’s position inside the MAGA movement is ever fully secure. And that holds particularly true for those who serve in Trump’s Justice Department, where each month a new top official seems to be in the crosshairs of activists yearning for prosecutions, accountability or just good old-fashioned liberal tears," Sommer wrote.