Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche played a key role overseeing Donald Trump’s so-called retribution campaign to target the president’s political enemies and investigate the prosecutors and officials who once investigated them, new emails show.
Blanche, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney and his nominee to serve as the nation’s top law enforcement official, assigned senior Department of Justice officials to oversee politically loaded investigations into former special counsel Jack Smith, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the prosecution of January 6 rioters and the 2020 presidential election, emails show.
