“Sunday Morning Futures” host Maria Bartiromo questioned Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday about the progress of probes into abuses of power targeting President Donald Trump.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in July released documents and a memo detailing what she called a “years-long coup” against Trump after he defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, and sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department. Bartiromo asked Blanche why there had not been any indictments over the targeting of Trump by the Obama and Biden administrations.
“You heard the former chairman of the Intelligence Committee saying that there has been a conspiracy over 10 years. What have you done about it?” Bartiromo asked Blanche.
“Well, look, that’s exactly what we’re investigating right now,” he replied. “And by the way, what is not in dispute is that the whole Russia hoax— there was absolutely nothing to it and so the question that the American people have to ask is, ‘Well then, why did they do it? Why did Comey say what he said? Why did the outgoing Obama administration do what they did?’”
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The Steele Dossier, which was used to further allegations that Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with the Russian government to defeat Clinton and to justify partisan actions of the FBI during the Obama administration, was later discredited. Blanche told Bartiromo there was still a chance Obama administration figures could face charges.
“You saw a continued effort all the way up until very recently — up until the raid of Mar-a-Lago just a couple of years ago — a continued effort to destroy President Trump, and whether that’s one conspiracy that that continued from 2015, 2016, all the way up to 2023 is what we’re looking at right now,” Blanche said.
“But the way that we do that is with the grand jury process,” Blanche continued. “So it’s calling witnesses, it’s looking at documents, it’s having prosecutors study, it’s having the FBI look at it and investigate what happened, and we’re finding out some incredibly troubling things, and at some point, at the right time, that will be made public and the American people will see exactly what happened to this administration and President Trump over the past decade.”
Bartiromo also asked Blanche when indictments over the Russia collusion investigation prompted by the Steele Dossier would come.
“Well, I mean, look, as has been publicly reported, the Southern District of Florida has an open criminal investigation that involves hundreds of subpoenas,” Blanche said. “It involves hundreds of witnesses, and so as far as timing and when we can expect it, we are working hard and we are working efficiently, but we are going to do it right. We are not going to rush something that isn’t ready. We’re not going to reach a conclusion before our investigation is over, but I assure you, and I assure the American people that we are completely focused on it.”
“What is not ready?” a visibly irritated Bartiromo replied. “I mean, you know, we’ve been watching this, you know, play out for a long time and viewers and people watching are frustrated because it just keeps happening.”
Editor’s note: This report was updated to correct the spelling of Acting Attorney General Blanche’s name.
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