MAGA is fickle

[Trump's Deputy Attorney General Todd] Blanche has become the target of a right-wing media campaign pushing for his ouster. His accusers blame him for, among other things, holding up a [Ghislaine] Maxwell-like arrangement for Tina Peters, a conspiracy theorist and former county clerk in Colorado sentenced last fall to nine years in prison for letting another conspiracy theorist copy hard drives of voter data and post the stolen materials to his website.

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He has recently been blamed for a host of misdeeds, including holding up “reparations” for January 6th defendants. But the most significant allegation against him comes from Peter Ticktin, a former Trump military-academy chum turned MAGA lawyer who’s now at the center of the get-Blanche campaign.

In Ticktin’s telling, the Justice Department was poised last month to essentially rescue his client Peters from Colorado state prison, where she has started serving her nine-year sentence.

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Peters has become a kind of election fraud martyr, thanks in part to interviews from prison where she lays out grievances with prison life, including smelly cups, loud doors slamming, and guards yelling her name too loudly.

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Oh, what? Prison isn't fun?

“We now can definitely identify Todd Blanche as the problem,” Emerald Robinson, an anchor for MyPillow magnate Mike Lindell’s LindellTV, said in an InfoWars appearance last week.

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But because Peters is held on state charges, Trump can’t pardon her, even though he’s demanded her release repeatedly in Truth Social posts.

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Peters has kept up the pressure herself, issuing a statement on X demanding that the DOJ “send in the marshals” to rescue her.

“Why is the DOJ defying Trump’s demands?” she tweeted. “Get off your asses and get me out!”

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Ticktin claims the Justice Department was poised to transfer Peters in September to a cozier federal prison. But, in an appearance last week on former Trump adviser Steve Bannon’s show, Ticktin alleged that the plan was quashed by Blanche.

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According to Overstock.com founder Patrick Byrne—an election denier and Peters friend whom Ticktin is attempting (so far unsuccessfully) to represent in an unrelated trial—the plan was for the Justice Department to claim that Peters is a “witness” in an unspecified upcoming case. That, in turn, would create a need for her to be in federal custody. Then Peters would have been transferred to a nicer, camp-style prison.

It all could have worked out, allegedly, had Blanche not intervened!

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[I]n Trump’s Justice Department [...] each month a new top official seems to be in the crosshairs of activists yearning for prosecutions, accountability or just good old-fashioned liberal tears. Kash Patel and Dan Bongino, both at the FBI, have had to manage disappointment and anger over the lack of disclosures around the Jeffrey Epstein files. And Attorney General Pam Bondi recently was the subject of intense criticism for claiming that hate speech wasn’t legally protected.

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The call to fire Blanche has been picked up by other MAGA influencers, including the popular “Hodge Twins” and InfoWars chief Alex Jones. Happy to pile on, Jones claimed that Blanche had also blocked an investigation into alleged unfairness in the Sandy Hook lawsuits that bankrupted InfoWars.

They just need Fox News to pile on.