Attorney General Todd Blanche went into the belly of the beast and spoke with Kristen Welker on Meet the Press. She tried to trip him up, but he didn’t back down. One of his key lines was, “The president will never ask me to do something unethical or legal — or illegal. He never has. He never will.”
Kristen Welker: We appreciate you being here in person. As we just heard in your address to the Justice Department staff this week, you said you and the DOJ will, quote, “uphold the law without fear or favor.” You, of course, used to be President Trump’s personal defense attorney. Can you pledge that the Justice Department will always act independently of the White House?
Attorney General Todd Blanche: Well, there’s a big difference between saying we will always do our job and investigate any case and act independently of the White House. No, I’m not going to pledge that. And no attorney general should ever pledge that. The President, I mean, if I were to pledge I will be independent of the White House, what that means is that if President Trump says, “I want the Department of Justice to go after every violent criminal in this country,” which is what he has said, what you’re saying to me is I should say, “No, sir, I’m not going to do it.” So I will act with integrity. Our prosecutors will act with integrity. We will prosecute without fear or any sort of favor. And that’s exactly what we’ve been doing. And that’s what every Department of Justice should do.
Kristen Welker: Well, I guess, big picture: If the president asks you to do something that you feel crosses an ethical or legal line, would you do it?
Attorney General Todd Blanche: The president will never ask me to do something unethical or legal — or illegal. He never has. He never will. And no, I swore to the Constitution of the United States like every cabinet secretary has done and like every attorney general before me has done. And so this, this narrative that’s mostly pushed by the left and pushed by the media that the president’s going to pull me aside and ask me to do something illegal is completely a false narrative, not true, will not happen, and hasn’t happened.
🚨 HOLY CRAP! AG Todd Blanche just MIC DROPPED Kristen Welker to her face for lecturing him
“I swore to the CONSTITUTION…this NARRATIVE that’s pushed by the left and media, that the president will pull me aside and ask me to do something illegal is a FALSE NARRATIVE, NOT TRUE,… pic.twitter.com/FFuWWIdKKh
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 16, 2026
He said they won’t back down on voter rolls, despite pressure from the host, Kristen Welker, to say he will. He might take it to the Supreme Court. We don’t have the SAVE Act, but we have this.
🚨 BREAKING: AG Todd Blanche tells Kristen Welker and blue states NO, he’s NOT going to BACK DOWN from trying to seize the voter rolls from blue states hiding election fraud
Blanche says he might even take it to the SUPREME COURT.
LFG! 🔥
WELKER: They say states dictate… pic.twitter.com/cVzXH5dalg
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 16, 2026
On Fox News Sunday, he explained that they have a criminal referral on Anthony Fauci and he is the subject of an ongoing investigation. We might get justice yet. It is important we do, or this will happen again.
🚨 JUST NOW: AG Todd Blanche says he has OFFICIALLY RECEIVED the criminal referral for Dr. Fauci, calling the matter an “ONGOING INVESTIGATION”
Great news! Hold Fauci accountable 🔥
“We received the referral from from the committee and and we’re handling that case like as every… pic.twitter.com/iYiSAJ9MxD
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 16, 2026
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