By Jim Thomas | April 2, 2026
Newly appointed acting Attorney General Todd Blanche stated last week that all individuals previously involved in criminal prosecutions of President Donald Trump have departed or been removed from the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Blanche, who assumed the role Thursday following President Trump’s removal of former Attorney General Pam Bondi, described the transition as a restoration of impartial justice after years of politicization. He made the comments during a CPAC fireside chat with Chair Matt Schlapp while serving as deputy attorney general.
Trump announced Blanche’s appointment on Truth Social, designating him as interim leader of the department. Blanche reported that more than 200 Justice Department employees with connections to Trump-related cases had either left before the new administration began, been terminated, or retired early.
“There is not a single man or woman at the Department of Justice who had anything to do with those prosecutions,” he said.
Blanche also noted a similar situation within the FBI under Director Kash Patel. “There isn’t a single man or woman with a gun, a federal agent still in that organization that had anything to do with the prosecution of President Trump,” he stated.
The remarks followed Blanche’s ongoing efforts to address what he called the weaponization of federal law enforcement. He characterized the Russia investigation led by former special counsel Robert Mueller as “a complete and total hoax” that nearly derailed Trump’s presidency and exemplified “the worst sort of weaponization” of government, Congress, prosecutors, and the FBI.
Blanche, who personally defended Trump in the business records case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and federal prosecutions handled by then-special counsel Jack Smith, credited voters for initiating a critical shift. He argued that past administrations, including Republican-led ones, had tolerated partisan actors within the executive branch—a practice this administration has rejected.
“President Trump, for the first time in modern history, has said, ‘I am the president. And if you work in the executive branch, you work for me,’” Blanche said. “We do not accept partisan actors.”
He highlighted state-level prosecutions as examples of politicized justice, naming Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis as “the best examples of the pure weaponization by the left of our system of justice.” Willis’ case, he added, was “completely annihilated.”
Blanche emphasized early achievements under the administration, including pardons or commutations for all January 6 defendants by 5 p.m. on Inauguration Day. He also cited reversals of policies targeting Christian organizations, restoration of Second Amendment rights, ending most federal consent decrees with local police departments, and intensified actions against drug traffickers.
“We are treating drug dealers like the narco-terrorists that they are,” he remarked, referencing a meeting with an “angel mom” that morning. Blanche concluded that the department operates seven days a week and has achieved more in its first year than any previous administration.
