Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in the East. When the history of the Trump era is written,

what happened to Todd Blanche will be in the discussion questions at the end of the Weaponized Department of Justice chapter.

There is no retribution campaign against Donald Trump's perceived political enemies who, by the way, aren't enemies at all,

but merely public servants doing their jobs in every instance without Todd Blanche's zeal

for carrying out that retribution campaign.

Brand new reporting in the New York Times based on newly released emails from a Freedom of

Information Act request revealed just how much Todd Blanche has

controlled and caused turmoil in the Department of Justice in his mission to fulfill Trump's

wish of punishing all those perceived enemies. According to the Times, what led to Blanche putting

himself in the driver's seat of the DOJ's retribution efforts last May was this. He was, quote,

handed a migraine in a Detective Colombo trench coat by the name of Edward R. Martin Jr. Martin, a right-wing

lawyer who championed the cause of the January 6th rioters, had just been forced out as the acting

U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.

The White House Senate installed Ed Martin as the head of the weaponization working group.

Martin put on nothing less than a show for Donald Trump,

like when he showed up at the Brooklyn home of New York's attorney General Tish James

in that Detective Colombo trench coat while he tried to cook up a mortgage frog case against her.

The New York Times reports that Todd Blanche, quote, didn't believe that Martin, a provocateur with minimal prosecutorial experience,

had the chops and know-how to do the job. That's according to current and former officials who spoke

anonymously. Notably, Blanche doesn't fire him, though. No. He hands him the keys to the car and then

supervised his driving by, quote, scheduling a check-in meeting every Friday, according to this

trove of internal justice department emails. The emails also revealed that

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