Liz Oyer: Todd Blanche Has Done a ‘Tremendous Amount of Damage’ to the Department of Justice

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OYER: “Todd Blanche knows no limits to. To which he will go to carry out Donald Trump’s agenda, his political agenda. He has gutted the career workforce at the Department of Justice, which has limited the ability of that organization to do its core mission, which is to protect public safety, to keep Americans safe and to uphold the rule of law in this country. And instead, he has prioritized Donald Trump’s political interests, financial interests and personal interests over and above the interests of the American people, which makes him fundamentally unsuited for this role. What he did, in my case, firing me because I wouldn’t sign off on a political favor for a friend of the president and then retaliating against me and my family. Unfortunately, it’s not unique. There have been countless civil servants who have been treated this way. There are thousands of Justice Department lawyers who have resigned or been forced out under Todd Blanche’s leadership, and he has really just done such a tremendous amount of damage to that organization as deputy attorney general, that”