Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche just revealed what's coming next in President Donald Trump's ballot scheme with a searing dog whistle during a Fox News interview on Sunday, according to one analyst.
Blanche joined Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on "Sunday Morning Futures," where he claimed, without evidence, that there is "a ton of evidence" that the 2020 general election was rigged against Trump.
"They’re very good at hiding up their misconduct. Hiding what they’re doing. And so that’s why we are very focused on finding out whether the right people voted,” Blanche claimed.
Blanche's comments caused political analyst Jim Acosta's ears to perk up, not just because Blanche seemed to be forgetting that the Trump administration was in office during the 2020 election and multiple Trump officials, from former Attorney General Bill Barr to cybersecurity director Chris Krebs, denied Trump's claim that the election was stolen. Blanche also appeared to be sending out a "dog whistle" that revealed the Trump administration's two-pronged plan to meddle in the upcoming midterms, Acosta argued in a new Substack essay.
"Trump has two chief goals in mind with his ballot baloney," Acosta wrote. "The first is to coax his party to disenfranchise minorities on a massive scale."
Acosta pointed to Blanche's statement that the Trump Department of Justice wanted to ensure the "right people" voted in the election, which he took to mean that only Trump supporters should be allowed to vote.
"But it is Trump who has been the voting fraudster all along," Acosta wrote. "In recent weeks, he and his political team have worked hand in glove with state legislators in the deep-red MAGA south to resurrect Jim Crow-style congressional maps that seek to eliminate minority representation in Congress. MAGA-loyalist justices on the Supreme Court and other sympathetic state judges are lending Trump a hand in his midterm meddling."
He added that there seems to be a second, and possibly more nefarious, reason Blanche made those comments.
"Trump’s second goal, of course, is to start building a case to challenge the midterm election results in the almost certain event that Democrats take control of the House and, quite possibly, the Senate," Acosta added.