Attorney General CONFRONTED after DOJ drops BOMBSHELL announcement

In the aftermath of today's bombshell. announcement by Gavin Newsom that the. DOJ is now targeting him and his family, Attorney General Todd Blanche was asked. for a comment about the latest instance. of vindictive prosecution. Here's what. that looked like. >> General Blanche, General Blanche, can. you conf- can you confirm if this. Justice Department is investigating. Gavin Newsom? And if the president directed you to do. this? He says it's being weaponized against. him. Did the president tell you to. investigate Gavin Newsom?

General Blanche, can you at least. confirm that this investigation is. happening? He's making some very serious. >> January 6th that Senator Tillis has. asked you to do in order to get. confirmed. >> He's made some serious accusations. Can. you please respond to that, General. Blanche? Any comment at all? >> Weird. I thought the new Trump DOJ loved. to talk about ongoing investigations, especially when they involve ICE agents. shooting unarmed Americans in the. streets. Guess they're a little less.

chatty when it's not about dead. Americans whose stories they're trying. to spin, huh? Now, this comes after. Gavin Newsom made the following. announcement this morning. >> In recent days, federal agents have. knocked on the doors of family, friends, and former employees. Not because they. found a crime, because they're simply. trying to find one. They're demanding. records. They're abusing the grand jury. process, digging through years and years. of random documents. Donald Trump isn't. just coming after me because of my mean. tweets. He's coming after me because I'm.

considering running for president. Because he hates that I've consistently. called him out over and over again for. his lies and deceit. Donald Trump is. simply the most corrupt president in. American history. He's turned the levers. of government into his own personal. power ministries to reward cronies and. to try to jail his opponents. His. personal attorney now runs the. Department of Justice, which has. repeatedly gone after his political.

enemies. Ask Jerome Powell. Sent them. after James Comey, Chris James, Adam. Schiff. He sent them after Tim Waltz and. a woman that a jury found Donald Trump. had sexually abused. One by one, anyone who has challenged. Donald Trump has ended up on his hit. list. And today, I proudly join that. list. After calling for my arrest last year, Donald Trump directed his Department of.

Justice to investigate me. And just in. the last week, I've learned that his. campaign has reached my own home. To get. me, he's coming after my wife, Jen. A public servant, a woman who's. dedicated her life to supporting women. and girls. Someone who has done nothing. wrong other than having the temerity to. advocate for what she believes in. If. they can't intimidate me, they'll go. after the mother of our children. Donald Trump picked the wrong target. We.

have nothing to hide. His political. operatives can take every record and. read every page, but they'll be looking. in the wrong place. Because if they. really want to find corruption, look no. further than 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Donald Trump is selling the presidency. He's running the largest cash heist in. American political history, trading. foreign tariff relief for approval of. his golf courses, day trading behind the.

Resolute Desk, reaping hundreds of. millions of dollars in personal profit. And he's doing it openly. He's doing it. on camera. He did it last night on the. White House lawn. He's doing it through. cryptocurrencies. He's doing it through. the receipt of a $400 million private. jet from a foreign government that he. plans to keep when he leaves office. There are his son's ventures in. countries where his own administration. is simultaneously making policy. His.

personal fortune has skyrocketed by $4. billion since making his return to. office. This is the behavior of a. regime, not a republic. The White House has become a. marketplace, a marketplace for sneakers. and coins and watches, cologne, guitars, Bibles, and phones. Influence for sale, access for sale. And. today, my family and I can personally. confirm that justice.

is for sale. >> Now, we got a refreshingly honest. response there from Newsom. He is. thinking of running for president. I. think that's as far as I'm concerned, the first time that he's made that. announcement. And so, because that poses. a threat to Trump and his movement, now. the White House needs to use the tools. available to it to go after him. This. isn't an example of the DOJ going after. a crime. It's the DOJ going after a. person and trying desperately to find a. crime to justify it. Just a quick note. here to say that if you appreciate my. work, which is and always will be 100%.

free, a small ask is if you could please. pre-order my new book, The Day After, which explores how Democrats must. finally wield power if they're fortunate. enough to get it back. I'll also be on. tour in DC, New York, and LA mid-July. You can grab tickets to the tour, and. you can pre-order the book at the same. link, which I'll put on the screen and. in the post description of this video. You can also find them at. briantylercohen.com/book. Again, I'll never paywall a single piece. of content, but this is the one time. that I'll ask for some support for a. book that I really think meets this. moment. Thanks so much. By the way,

Newsom knows that this whole thing is a. conclusion in search of evidence, which. explains his next move. He submitted a. FOIA request through his attorneys to. the DOJ demanding emails, signal chats, and text messages, along with other. communications using terms like Newsom, Gavin Newsom, Jennifer Newsom from. January 2025 to today. In other words, if there are official communications. from administration officials demanding. that dirt be dug up on the Newsom family. to retroactively justify this. prosecution, then that'll be a pretty.

open and shut case that the White House. is targeting its opponents and. vindictively prosecuting them. It'll. also mean that any attorneys involved. are guaranteed to be referred to bar. council in their respective states to. have their law licenses reviewed and it. might also mean that the Newsoms could. have a civil case in court on their. hands. And look, Newsom getting added to an. enemies list is unfortunately nothing. new. And I have some authority to speak. here given the fact that Trump just. added me to his official enemies list, a.

media offenders list, which is a list of. content creators that this White House. is now targeting. Is the addition to this enemies list. warranted? Absolutely not. But it's not. about the merits of inclusion. The whole. point of adding people to these lists is. to harass Trump's opponents, to make it. emotionally, mentally, physically, and. financially painful. That's what they. did to James Comey, Letitia James, Jerome Powell, Tim Walls, E. Jean. Carroll, and on and on. For a party that. literally had a weaponization of.

government subcommittee, so upset were. they at the prospect of the government. going after people, they sure have. forgotten their opposition to censorship. over the last 2 years. But look, Newsom deserves credit for not. capitulating, especially in light of the. fact that so many have. We have seen law. firms bend the knee, universities bend. the knee, tech CEOs, media companies, news outlets, all massive institutions. with all the resources at their. disposal, and yet so many have decided. to take the easy route and capitulate.

And so they'll not only heap money into. Trump's pockets, but send him a message. that it is easy to own these people. because they won't put up a fight. That. behavior makes it all the more difficult. for everybody else, including me, and. it's infuriating. That's why when it. came to be my turn, this was my official. response. I've spent a lot of time. reporting on the news. I try very hard. not to be the news. This video is going. to be a little bit different. On the. whitehouse.gov website, taxpayer-funded. website, you'll now see my name under a.

list of media offenders. So, I am. officially on one of Donald Trump's. enemies list. This is, I guess, a new. iteration that's focused on content. creators now that he's moved through law. firms, universities, tech companies, media outlets, comedians. I guess we're. up to content creators now. So, in. consultation with my attorneys, I've. drafted a response, uh a legal response, uh to Trump putting my name on this.

enemies list as far as content creators. are concerned, and it goes as follows. >> [clears throat]. you. Suck my dick. So, why do that? Why poke the bear? Because I got tired. of watching people with a hell of a lot. more power and money and influence than. me roll over and play dead. So, if I. could offer a blueprint for anybody in. the future, content creators, journalists, independent media, you name. it, who get targeted to fight back with. no fear, then I'll have done my job. And. Newsom is doing his by not backing down.

and speaking out because this. administration does not respond to. weakness by backing down. They respond. to weakness by punching you again and. again and again over and over and over. That's why Trump continues to go after. ABC and Disney, their parent company, even after they paid him $16 million. because he doesn't respect them. He sees. them as chumps because they acted like. chumps. The only way to beat a bully is. to punch him in the face. That's what. we're doing. One last note, if you'd. like to show some support for my work, I.

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