Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) relied on fantasy excuses to justify confirming Todd Blanche as President Donald Trump‘s attorney general, CNN’s Jake Tapper said on Friday — and it’s not the first time either.
Cassidy ultimately casting aside his public doubts was a “real puzzler,” Tapper said, citing two reasons for that.
First, there is Cassidy’s constant concerns about the “weaponization of the Justice Department.” Cassidy addressed this in his speech announcing his vote, said Tapper, but the answer he gave is bizarre. Specifically, he argued that Blanche has made a convincing case he would not be a “yes man” for Trump and “would be precisely the person to push back” on him.
“If you believe that I have a Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Bridge to sell you, because there is literally no evidence of Blanche, once Trump’s personal attorney in the Stormy Daniels case, ever standing up to President Trump,” said Tapper. “Not with the prosecutions of the likes of Don Lemon or Lisa Cook or James Comey or Letitia James.”
Blanche did not show any independence when he slow-walked the Epstein case file release, or helped bury criminal investigations into ICE officers who killed people in Minneapolis, Tapper added.
But there’s another reason this is such a surprise, said Tapper, and it’s because “politically, he doesn’t need to vote for Blanche. Cassidy is a dead man walking.”
“He’s already out of a job,” noted Tapper, because Trump endorsed against him and he got clobbered in his primary. Moreover, he said, “if you’re getting deja vu, Cassidy was also the deciding vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services Secretary last year, despite Cassidy’s major reservations. Cassidy is a doctor and RFK Jr. is the opposite of a doctor. That turned out not so well.”
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