Todd Blanche claims Trump would have faced prison if he had lost 2024 election
WASHINGTON, DC: The Acting Attorney General of the US, Todd Blanche, during a conversation with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, made a bombshell remark, stating that if Trump hadn’t won the 2024 presidential election, he would have been languishing behind bars.
Talking about the legal problems of Trump during an interview on Hannity’s Hang Out podcast on Tuesday, June 2, Blanche said that the president “absolutely” would have been sent to prison if the 2024 result were anything but Trump’s victory.
Trump would have been jailed had he lost 2024
Hannity pointed to Trump's conviction on 34 felony counts in New York before asking whether the president's options in 2024 had effectively come down to winning the White House or going to prison.
“So is it an accurate statement to say he either wins in ’24, wins the White House — [and] it’s either the White House or the big house?” Hannity asked.
“Yes! Oh yeah, absolutely,” Blanche replied.
Blanche argued that Trump was simultaneously facing legal threats in multiple jurisdictions.
“Don’t forget, he had a D.C. case breathing down his neck, he had the Florida case — which had been dismissed but they were appealing it — and then he had a judge in New York who there’s no scenario in which he wasn’t going to send President Trump to prison. He didn’t, after the president won.”
The acting attorney general suggested Trump's election victory altered the trajectory of those legal battles.
“The consequences of 2024 for this country are priceless. But for him and his family, also priceless,” Blanche said.
DOJ investigates if Trump was targeted
Hannity later asked whether the Justice Department was investigating grand juries that had targeted Trump. Blanche confirmed that an investigation was underway.
The host argued that investigators were examining whether a coordinated effort had been carried out against the president.
“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. “Is that fair?”
“Without a doubt,” Blanche responded.
Blanche added that investigators would ultimately need to establish a pattern of politically motivated legal actions against Trump, but argued that doing so would not be difficult.
His appearance on Hannity's podcast came a week after the Justice Department launched an investigation into whether writer E Jean Carroll committed perjury during her sexual assault civil case against Trump.
The inquiry stems from Carroll's 2022 deposition, in which she said she did not receive outside financial assistance for the lawsuit. A year later, however, Reid Hoffman said he had helped fund the case.
