United States Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is "very frustrated" and "embarrassed" by the latest failures of the DOJ, so much so that he is reportedly encouraging an internal investigation of Trump admin officials.
MS Now investigative reporter Carol Leonnig appeared on the network on Thursday to further discuss a bombshell report that two Trump officials are being investigated by the FBI.
The host asked of Leonnig, "I'mcurious though because this isa new development that I thinkI was not expecting today.This is the DOJ investigatingtwo Trump officials. And howdid that come about? Because sofar what we've seen is DOJ has done the investigating that Donald Trump wants in terms ofpolitics, how did the DOJ openan investigation and then getone approved into two of Donald Trump's own officials?"
"So great question," Leonnig began. "Oursources say that the deputyattorney general, Todd Blanche,is well aware of this probe,not technically running thisinvestigation, but aware of itand familiar with it and not inany way interfering with it,but possibly even encouragingit."
She added, "You know, there is a claimby some of our sources that Blanche and some of the peoplearound him at the top layers ofthe Department of Justice havebeen very frustrated withthe methods used by Ed Martinand Bill Pulte and theirfrustration about thepossibility that these casesare not solid, the ones thatboth men have been pushingdespite them being Trump alliesand doing what Trump reallywould like, which is goingafter his perceived enemies,his critics."
"In this case,it is a problem, according toour sources, for Todd Blanche,to have cases that aren't beinghandled very properly. And aswe saw, there were someunforced errors," she noted on Thursday. " In anothercase in the eastern district ofVirginia yesterday. We're told Blanche is a little bitembarrassed about all of that."