Blanche says – Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told Sean Hannity that Donald Trump would “absolutely” have been sent to prison if he hadn’t won the 2024 election, while also confirming a Justice Department investigation into grand juries and saying it will test whether
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche didn’t mince words on Tuesday night, telling Sean Hannity that President Donald Trump “absolutely” would have been sent to prison if he had not won the 2024 election.
The exchange came during Blanche’s interview on Hannity’s Hang Out podcast. where Hannity walked through what he called a “litany” of legal problems facing Trump. including the fact that Trump was “convicted on 34 felony charges in New York City.” Hannity then put the question plainly: if Trump doesn’t win in 2024 and take the White House. “is it either the White House or the big house?”.
Blanche’s answer was immediate. “Yes! Oh yeah, absolutely,” he said.
Blanche tied that prediction to multiple cases pending or looming around Trump before and after Election Day. He pointed to a D.C. case “breathing down his neck. ” and said there was also a Florida case that had been dismissed but was being appealed. He added that. in New York. “there’s no scenario in which he wasn’t going to send President Trump to prison. ” and contrasted that with what happened after Trump won.
Blanche then broadened the stakes of 2024 beyond Trump’s personal situation. “the consequences of 2024 for this country are priceless. But for him and his family, also priceless,” he said.
Hannity pressed on another front, asking whether the Justice Department was investigating whether grand juries targeted Trump. Blanche confirmed that such a probe exists.
“This is all being investigated, and it’s whether or not a pattern of behavior has taken place to destroy this man — one man, one family, one organization,” Hannity said.
“Without a doubt,” Blanche replied.
He said the investigation will have to determine whether there was a pattern of politically motivated legal attacks against Trump, adding, “but that’s not hard to do.”
Blanche’s comments arrive in a wider moment of scrutiny around the Justice Department and the courts. His appearance on Hannity’s podcast came a week after the Department of Justice launched an investigation into whether E. Jean Carroll perjured herself in her sexual assault civil suit against Trump. In that case, Carroll said in a 2022 deposition that she did not receive help funding her case. A year later, Linkedin co-founder and liberal donor Reid Hoffman said he helped bankroll it.
The sequence of Blanche’s remarks—his insistence that prison was effectively inevitable absent the 2024 outcome. paired with confirmation of a Justice Department probe into whether grand juries targeted Trump—underscored a central tension now playing out in Washington: not just what legal actions were taken. but what motive might be behind them and whether a pattern can be proven.
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