Something that the dying news media like to do is frame President Trump’s concerns with the Justice Department as though they’re animated solely by personal vendetta, rather than legitimate matters of law and order that affect everyone. Look at how they’re reacting to the president nominating Todd Blanche to serve as attorney general.
The New York Times said Trump was “elevating a trusted loyalist who has proved willing to execute the president’s demands.” The Washington Post, citing unnamed “critics,” said Blanche has “abandoned standard Justice Department norms and continues to operate as if he were working as Trump’s personal lawyer.” CNN, having apparently hunted down those very same unnamed critics, said Blanche, as the current acting attorney general, “has effectuated the president’s personal and political agenda to use the Justice Department as his own attack mechanism.”
This is another way of saying Blanche is likely to pursue objectives at odds with what the dying media would prefer. Namely, accountability for past wrongs that deserve to be righted. And with many of those wrongs, the media were complicit, most notably the Russia collusion hoax that they perpetuated along with the very same Justice Department that Blanche is set to oversee. Of course they’ll want to undermine his role by characterizing him not as an upholder of the law but rather as a servant of the president’s petty whims.
The dying media pretend that Trump takes an interest in the DOJ because he intends to settle personal scores and so that’s why he has nominated his former personal attorney for the job. But that’s not even close.
True, the president all but certainly does want justice for himself on a personal level. But also, he’s the president and, by definition, he represents the country. That’s all of us. It’s a matter of historical record that this president and his political allies, plus many of his voters, were aggressively and unfairly targeted by the Justice Department.
The DOJ set Trump up when President Obama was in office, having illegally spied on his campaign and leaked its investigations to the media with the intent of hurting Trump politically. He and others were also harassed all throughout the Biden years for, among other things, exercising their First Amendment right to question the 2020 election.
Accounting for those injustices would understandably upset the dying media, given that they assisted in perpetuating them. And to uncover just how far those efforts went would undoubtedly demonstrate yet more corruption on behalf of The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and the rest.
They don’t want that. That’s why they will oppose Todd Blanche.
