Todd Blanche fires back at Laura Loomer over DOJ's settlement offers to Camp Lejeune victims
WASHINGTON, DC: Far right-wing activist Laura Loomer has challenged President Donald Trump’s administration members over the Justice Department’s award claims linked to the toxic water pollution at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
Particularly, Attorney General Todd Blanche has come to the defense of Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward after Loomer accused him of making inadequate offers to sick soldiers and their families who were seeking compensation for decades. Administration sources told the Daily Mail that the activist has been a part of the issue due to her past employment with a law firm representing thousands of claimants.
Todd Blanche defends DOJ official as Laura Loomer attacks settlement offers
"She makes it sound like she’s siding with the victims when in fact she’s siding with the lawyers that are trying to take money out of the victims' pockets," one source claimed.
Laura, you should be transparent with your followers, and you are dead wrong about Stanley. He is a patriot who is fighting for POTUS and the American people every day. Decisions in cases like Camp Lejeune are made by me, ODAG, Stanley’s team, the civil division and the trial team, consulting with and keeping the White House counsel’s office and DOW updated along the way. We love our veterans and we want to get these cases right. Find a different obsession other than going after one of DOJ’s best fighters.
— Attorney General Todd Blanche (@AGToddBlanche) October 20, 2026
Todd Blanche lashed out at Loomer: “Laura, you should be transparent with your followers, and you are dead wrong about Stanley. He is a patriot who is fighting for POTUS and the American people every day.”
The case comes as the Justice Department and plaintiff’s lawyers are due to set up a system to deal with outstanding claims by October 30.
The case started with the Camp Lejeune Justice Act, which was approved by Congress in 2022.
The act enabled people affected by water pollution at the Marine Corps base to seek compensation from the federal government. Loomer has asked Trump to intervene, claiming that the cases would be a political problem for him in the midterm elections.
Blanche insisted Woodward was not acting alone.
"Decisions in cases like Camp Lejeune are made by me, ODAG, Stanley's team, the civil division and the trial team, consulting with and keeping the White House counsel's office and DOW updated along the way," he wrote. "We love our veterans, and we want to get these cases right."
He closed with a jab at the MAGA activist herself. "Find a different obsession other than going after one of DOJ's best fighters," Blanche said.
Laura Loomer’s latest rant on X
Loomer recently posted a lengthy piece on X, condemning the Justice Department’s response to the claims of people exposed to hazardous substances at Camp Lejeune.
Read this thread and see how you’re being lied to about Stanley Woodward being a good guy. He’s not. You’re all being lied to. Cancer victims have been offered Pennies on the dollar while rent a doc “experts” have been paid over $4 million by the DOJ at the direction of Woodward to lie to veterans to tell them the water at the Camp LeJeune base wasn’t poisoned. This is how your tax dollars are being spent by the Democrats running the DOJ.
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) October 21, 2026
She claimed to have seen five offers of judgment sent to claimants who developed cancer, parkinsonism, and other conditions and accused Woodward, the new head of the department's settlement process, of failing to deliver justice to the victims.
Loomer added that Woodward was “far left,” a Democrat, and that the situation could be used by the President to attack him during the campaign.
She also called on Blanche to intervene and pressure the President to address the issue before his campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina.
Loomer's thread laid out what she described as "one of the most egregious examples of government failure to address toxic exposure and deliver justice to military families."
🚨 THREAD: 🚨 There is a terrible act of injustice happening in our country right now impacting US veterans and their family members, and it’s something I’ve been reporting on for a while. For several decades, victims of the Camp LeJeune water contamination crisis have been denied the compensation they deserve, despite suffering from cancers, neurological disorders, and other devastating illnesses caused by toxic exposure. From 1953 to 1987, over a million veterans, their families, and civilians were exposed to highly toxic volatile organic compounds (VOCs) like TCE, PCE, vinyl chloride, and benzene in the base’s groundwater, with contamination levels far exceeding safe limits. Despite clear evidence of harm, federal officials concealed the issue, delaying action until 1987 and leaving victims without recourse for years. The Camp LeJeune compensation crisis stands as one of the most egregious examples of government failure to address toxic exposure and deliver justice to military families. I have obtained documentation of 5 offers of judgment from the Department of Justice to people who served or worked at Camp LeJeune Marine Corps Base who later developed terrible diseases like cancer or Parkinson’s. And they’re far from the only ones. Thousands of people who lived or served on that base later got seriously sick, and most of those diseases have been tied back to the poisoned water at Camp LeJeune, which the US government knew about but covered up for YEARS. The five people listed in this thread are just a handful of victims who have gone public with the shameless “offers of judgment” the US government has recently offered them. Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward @ASGWoodward at the DOJ signed off on these disgraceful offers after being put in charge of the Camp LeJeune settlements earlier this year. The Trump administration has a critical opportunity to deliver justice to the veterans and families harmed by the Camp LeJeune crisis. Many of these victims have already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on treatment and care as a result of their illnesses from their time at Camp LeJeune. The offers they’ve received do not make them financially whole, and they also don't account for the years stolen from the victims, or from their families, who have had to watch them suffer. Here are their stories ⬇️
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) September 24, 2026
She then turned her fire squarely on Woodward, whom she branded "a lifelong Democrat at the DOJ," and warned the Trump administration was handing Democrats a campaign weapon ahead of the midterms. Federal judges, she wrote, had set an Oct. 30 deadline for a settlement, with a trial set to begin Oct. 26.
"This is a political disaster waiting to happen," Loomer wrote. "The Democrats will say that it was HIS DOJ that screwed over sick US Marines and their families, and Stanley Woodward is handing the Democrats that ammunition on a silver platter."
