--- title: Todd Blanche url: https://propagandaarchive.org/quotes/todd-blanche/ description: 6 verified quotes from Todd Blanche, Attorney General of the United States, with sources. section: FRAME --- ![Illustration: a contemporary investigator's evidence wall of printed social-media posts, network diagrams and a pinned world map, in the same dossier style as the rest of the archive.](https://propagandaarchive.org/static/generated/detail/hero-contemporary-evidence-wall.jpg) [Quotes](https://propagandaarchive.org/quotes/) · United States # Todd Blanche ![Todd Blanche, official Attorney General portrait, 2026](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/images/trump-administration/todd-blanche.jpg) [Photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AG_Todd_Blanche_Official_Portrait.jpg): Ryan M. Biller, U.S. Department of Justice, Public domain (U.S. federal government work) Attorney General of the United States · United States On the regime page: [Trump administration](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/trump-administration/#todd-blanche) 6 quotes, oldest first. [Filter with other speakers](https://propagandaarchive.org/quotes/#speaker=todd-blanche). 1. > “The Justice Department is opening a criminal investigation relating to the selective leak of inaccurate, but nevertheless classified, information from the Intelligence Community relating to Tren de Aragua (TDA). We will not tolerate politically motivated efforts by the Deep State to undercut President Trump’s agenda by leaking false information onto the pages of their allies at the New York Times. The Alien Enemies Proclamation is supported by fact, law, and common sense, which we will establish in court and then expel the TDA terrorists from this country.” — March 21, 2025 · Statement · Washington, DC, US Department of Justice — Issued in response to New York Times reporting on classified intelligence about Tren de Aragua, while the administration was relying on the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged gang members. — Statement of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on the Investigation into an Intelligence Leak, US Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, 21 March 2025 [Source](https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/statement-deputy-attorney-general-todd-blanche-investigation-intelligence-leak) 2. > “Yes, it is a moot issue, meaning there is no weaponization fund. The weaponization fund is dead. It's not moving forward.” — July 15, 2026 · Testimony · Washington, DC, Senate Judiciary Committee Verified (secondary source) — Answering a senator's question at his confirmation hearing about the 'anti-weaponization fund' created in the settlement of President Trump's lawsuit over the leak of his tax returns. — Testimony at the nomination hearing of Todd Blanche to be Attorney General, Senate Judiciary Committee, day one, 15 July 2026 (Rev.com transcript) [Source](https://www.rev.com/transcripts/blanche-confirmation-day-one) 3. > “So, I wasn't celebrating it, I was merely stating a fact, which is that the January 6th defendants did receive a very generous pardon or commutation from President Trump, every one of them, on January 20th.” — July 15, 2026 · Testimony · Washington, DC, Senate Judiciary Committee Verified (secondary source) — Responding to a senator who asked about Blanche's earlier public statement that January 6 defendants and their lawyers had 'a short memory'. The senator went on to criticise the pardons as unwarranted for those who assaulted police officers. — Testimony at the nomination hearing of Todd Blanche to be Attorney General, Senate Judiciary Committee, day one, 15 July 2026 (Rev.com transcript) [Source](https://www.rev.com/transcripts/blanche-confirmation-day-one) 4. > “I don't believe he is, no.” — July 15, 2026 · Testimony · Washington, DC, Senate Judiciary Committee Verified (secondary source) — Reply to Sen. Chris Coons, who asked whether President Trump is eligible, as a matter of constitutional law, to run for another term in 2028. — Testimony at the nomination hearing of Todd Blanche to be Attorney General, Senate Judiciary Committee, day one, 15 July 2026 (Rev.com transcript) [Source](https://www.rev.com/transcripts/blanche-confirmation-day-one) 5. > “Any mistake that was made is not appropriate. And so, yes, I am sorry that in about 1% of the documents, mistakes were made.” — July 15, 2026 · Testimony · Washington, DC, Senate Judiciary Committee Verified (secondary source) — Pressed by a senator, with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse present in the room, to apologise for errors in the Justice Department's release of the Epstein files, including unredacted victims' names. — Testimony at the nomination hearing of Todd Blanche to be Attorney General, Senate Judiciary Committee, day one, 15 July 2026 (Rev.com transcript) [Source](https://www.rev.com/transcripts/blanche-confirmation-day-one) 6. > “We have a right, just like every litigant in court, to have a judge that will be fair and impartial. We have no choice but to act.” — September 30, 2026 · Statement · Washington, DC, Justice Department press conference Verified (secondary source) — Blanche announced the filing with the Eighth Circuit against all but one of the federal district judges in Minnesota, after most had spoken to the New York Times about the government's handling of cases during an immigration-enforcement surge. — Press conference announcing a judicial misconduct complaint against Minnesota federal judges, 30 September 2026, as quoted by CBS News, "Justice Department files judicial misconduct complaint against federal judges in Minnesota" [Source](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/justice-department-files-judicial-misconduct-complaint-against-federal-judges-in-minnesota/)