Deputy AG Blanche rejects notion Trump DOJ is weaponized after Biden years: 'Batsh*t crazy'

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche pushed back on critics of the U.S. Department of Justice’s indictments under the Trump administration.

Critics have said the charges against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James are politically motivated.

“When I read now that we’re weaponizing, I feel like I’m being gaslit, because we’re doing exactly the opposite,” he said at the Federalist Society annual lawyers’ conference in Washington. “I take umbrage at the idea that the work that our prosecutors are doing is weaponization, because I have receipts. I know what happened the past couple years. I lived it.”

He slammed the record of the Biden administration's DOJ.

“What happened the past four years within the United States Department of Justice, I’m going to say a Latin term: batsh*t crazy,” he said.

 “I hope that time heals wounds and I hope that we move forward as a country … back to where the Department of Justice is doing justice. And I think we’re doing that now,” he added.

Blanche said liberal activist judges are a threat to the Trump administration's agenda.

“They have a robe on, but they are more political or certainly as political as the most liberal governor or D.A. … There’s a group of judges that are repeat players, and that’s obviously not by happenstance, that’s intentional, and it’s a war, man,” he said. “It’s happening over and over and over again … The system is not set up for efficiency when it comes to rogue activist judges. So, we lose days, we lose weeks, months, sometimes because of this, and that’s why activist groups do what they do.”

Blanche also said DOJ plans to handle ethics complaints against its lawyers internally instead of referring them elsewhere.

“The D.C. Bar in particular is one of the most activist, obnoxious bars when it comes to going after conservative lawyers. It’s out of this world,” he said.