Attorney General Todd Blanche exposed his “criminal intent” to help President Donald Trump “steal the midterms” when he lashed out at a CNN host, a longtime legal journalist argued.
Marcy Wheeler, an independent journalist who has covered the Jan. 6 prosecutions, made the argument Monday in a post on her Emptywheel blog about Blanche’s Sunday interviews on CNN’s “State of the Union” and CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
Blanche used both interviews to defend a Justice Department lawsuit claiming a second candidate, Dan Sullivan, could confuse voters in Alaska’s tight U.S. Senate race, where Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) is seeking reelection, The Washington Post reported.
“[O]ne of the big questions is whether or not the president is laying the groundwork for a scenario where … President Trump tries to overturn the election, and the result of that could be, God forbid, what we saw after January 6,” CNN host Dana Bash told Blanche.
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