r/PoursTea • u/Impressive10000 • 16d ago

Storm In A Teacup 🍵 'You Cannot Be Asking Me That!': Trump’s AG Goes Nuclear On Live TV Over Press Ban

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/todd-blanche-clashes-abc-host-trump-press-ban_n_6ab93c44e4b0d1543f549863
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u/Porunga23 16d ago

Why?

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u/Impressive10000 16d ago

Because it makes him have to answer for the BS out of his client's mouth?

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u/Double_Eagle9285 15d ago

He is not supposed to represent the president as his lawyer. He is supposed to be neutral, works for us-

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u/Vegetable_Offer_2268 15d ago

You could see as soon as he was confirmed,he went right back to being trumps lawyer and protector. If you look up the word sleazy in the dictionary Blanches face would be there.

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u/Wakkit1988 15d ago

I got tired of explaining people that the DOJ is intended to represent the government, and the president has his own legal council in Whitehouse Council.

The structure is similar to a corporation and their legal council, where they represent the interests of the corporation, but not necessarily you as the employee. For instance, if an outside party sues you for your role within the company, then the company may utilize their lawyers to represent you on their behalf, but if your actions are against the company or entirely unrelated to your employment, then they may tell you to pound sand or even work against you, necessitating you have your own council.

Trump is an employee, and he's directly working against the interests of his employer. If this was a private company, he'd have been fired and dragged into court for his breach of fiduciary duty.

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u/Burnbrook 16d ago

Because they have no legal recourse or justification. This is clearly unconstitutional.

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u/OldSchoolBubba 15d ago

Trump, Blanche and all the enablers always label everything as "national security" to justify their actions.

Yet Trump's own words reveal they're trying to control the narratives and hide their true actions going into the midterms.

This is a fake cosplay presidency on a crime spree that doesn't govern anything.

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u/Verde_3773 15d ago

Just like W did from 2001-2008…

Funny how it’s always Republicans who think reporting & disseminating the truth is a threat to national security…

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u/Ill-Bullfrog-5360 11d ago

That’s a little too tidy.

Bush-era Republicans absolutely attacked the press over national-security reporting. But Democrats weren’t exactly civil-liberties absolutists during the same period either.
In 2001, 145 House Democrats voted for the PATRIOT Act, and it passed the Senate 98–1, with virtually the entire Democratic caucus supporting it.

Then in 2008, 105 House Democrats voted for the FISA Amendments Act, which expanded surveillance authority and provided telecom companies a path to retroactive immunity; the Senate passed it 69–28, with Barack Obama voting yes.

And even on the 2006 resolution condemning publication of classified information, 17 Democrats joined 210 Republicans… although, to be fair, the large majority of Democrats voted against it.

So criticize Bush and the Republicans for what they actually did. Absolutely. But “it’s always Republicans” erases a pretty bipartisan post-9/11 record of sacrificing civil liberties in the name of national security.

Extremism and authoritarian bullshit suck regardless of whose jersey it’s wearing.

Boo to purity politics it’s meant to be back and forth

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u/Antique-Dragonfly615 15d ago

"National Security" has been the GOP battle cry since Nixon. There's a big difference between the Security of the Nation, and the Security of those abusing the nation to keep running (ruining?) it.

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u/OldSchoolBubba 15d ago

There it is. Tell it

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u/Squidly_Diddly 15d ago

Yeah the Ahole has been on a crime spree his entire life.

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u/No-Effective388 Drama Llama 🎭 16d ago

Trump is a whiny little man, who cannot stand being asked questions, that he does not like.

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u/Impressive10000 16d ago

Blanche says "and it’s not right for the people of the United States to have to put up with.”

I say they have the freedom to change the channel. CNN is far more accurate and unbiased than Faux Noise.

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u/No-Effective388 Drama Llama 🎭 16d ago

*yet. I would not be sure if CNN stays this way after the merger.

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u/Impressive10000 16d ago

They bought it for a reason.

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u/No-Effective388 Drama Llama 🎭 16d ago

Exactly. Step by step MAGA is silencing everyone.

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u/concerts85701 15d ago

It’s all part of Project 2025. The Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society have been setting pieces in place for 40+ years.

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u/Cohens4thClient 15d ago

Pedophile supporter defends pedophile.

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u/JohnnyCrispZoom 16d ago

Trump is the fake news. He sucks!!!

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

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u/Preying_Mantid_67 15d ago

Oh he’ll have a couple decades after Cheeto is off to meet the bleeding choir invisible … and he will come to learn the price he paid for his soul.

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u/BatEco1 15d ago

AND NOT ONE QUESTION ABOUT THE FILES THEY ARE HIDING!

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u/Jazzlike_Damage793 15d ago

Fascists don’t like the first amendment when it is applied to them.

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u/soxperry 15d ago

>“I’m sorry, wait, give you an example of when CNN doesn’t report accurately?!” Blanche exclaimed. “You cannot be asking me that! They don’t even disagree. There’s not even a real dispute that the information coming out of CNN and some of these other networks is wholly and completely, almost 100% negative toward the president.”

Yes. One lie please. Any time now.

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u/pemungkah 12d ago

Very cute. He characterized it as negative, and completely sidestepped whether or not it was accurate.

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u/RSKrit 15d ago

the lie is that they are reporting “news”. they may be slightly accurate, sometimes not as they all make mistakes, but the spin added to tell people what to think about it is predominantly lies, when it comes to certain subjects.

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u/retiredGPA 11d ago

How wonderfully vague.

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u/RSKrit 11d ago

fits them perfectly. good observation.

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u/TheManWith2Poobrains 15d ago

"... it’s not right for the people of the United States to have to put up with.”

Legally the government / DOJ (same thing these days), have to support their position that CNN et al are publishing news damaging to national security, not that the public has to endure something.

Even Blanche's own words destroy his case.

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u/IncredibleEdible321 15d ago

Sorry buddy, but she can ask you any questions she likes.

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u/Impossible_Walrus555 15d ago

Blanche is one of the worst of the weirdo sycophants. He is in fact supposed to have separation from the president. Two separate entities. But this regime is so broken and so crooked.