United States Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche made a crucial mistake in a criminal matter, according to a legal journalist.
Lawfare's Roger Parloff on Saturday noted that Blanche made the DOJ's case vulnerable in the matter involving a mistakenly deported man named Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Abrego Garcia is a migrant who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador due to an “administrative error” but has since been returned to the U.S. and is fighting deportation efforts.
Parloff flagged a legal filing that says, "Most tellingly, Attorney General Bondi's direct report, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, linked Abrego's criminal charges to Abrego's civil lawsuit in Maryland."
"Strikingly, during a television Deputy Attorney General Blanche revealed that the government started 'investigating' Abrego after 'a judge in Maryland ... questioned' the government's decision, found that it 'had no right to deport him,' and 'accused the government of doing something wrong,'" according to the court document.
Parloff highlighted those lines and wrote, "Blanche's explicit linkage of the vindictive start of govt's Abrego criminal probe to govt’s loss of Abrego's civil case may be the most foolish thing he’s done since his cross of Michael Cohen."
Parloff then quoted Blanche's now-infamous line to Trump's ex-lawyer and fixer Cohen in a courtroom: “[Y]ou went on TikTok and called me a ‘crying little s---,’ didn’t you?”
