Todd Blanche Screams With Trump Ally Over Conspiracy Probe Chaos

Attorney General Todd Blanche engaged in a screaming match with a key Trump ally, sparking a deep crisis inside the Justice Department as insiders warn an imminent disaster is on its way to infuriate MAGA supporters. One source notes that no one wants to talk about it anymore.

The fallout began when Joe diGenova, a veteran Trump backer tasked with overseeing a sprawling 'grand conspiracy' investigation in Florida's Southern District, accused Blanche of obstructing his own department's case. DiGenova arrived at this role in April after Blanche appointed him to probe whether US intelligence and law enforcement officials, including former President Barack Obama's CIA Director John Brennan, were part of a years-long plot against Donald Trump.

According to sources with the Daily Mail, Blanche sent multiple individuals down from DC several weeks prior in an attempt to 'rein in' DiGenova. That effort backfired because diGenova accused Blanche of obstruction. When they spoke on the phone earlier this month, their exchange quickly turned heated. A frustrated DiGenova resigned shortly afterward, sources say.

A report by CNN, citing two people familiar with the situation, detailed a 'tense' call that reportedly centered on diGenova blocking attorneys from DOJ headquarters to help with the probe. That action led to the prosecutor's swift exit. The Daily Mail also confirmed that disagreements over diGenova's denied request for a SCIF in Florida, a secured room to review classified materials, pushed things past the breaking point.

When asked about diGenova's sudden resignation during a recent White House press briefing, Blanche dodged a direct response. 'I don't want to talk about communications I have with prosecutors. It's not fair to them. It's not fair to the process,' he stated as he quickly turned to another question.

The 'grand conspiracy' probe was launched to determine whether US intelligence and law enforcement officials were part of a years-long plot against Donald Trump. Attorney General Todd Blanche inherited the case from then-Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was fired earlier this year. But inside the Justice Department's headquarters, the flurry of headlines suggested what longtime career officials had known for months: The 'grand conspiracy' probe that the president has obsessed over, publicly and privately - for the better part of the last six years – is all but dead.

'This case was initiated to make the president and the public think something is happening down there, when in reality, it's not,' said one DOJ official. However, a DOJ official disputed the notion that the case in Florida is stalled and has no support from main justice. That official did not provide a comment on Blanche and diGenova's reported explosive call.

Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter and another attorney traveled down to Florida after diGenova's departure to check in on progress, a law enforcement official familiar with the matter said. This report is based on conversations with five current and former Justice Department officials, former prosecutors, and others with knowledge of the investigation.

In Miami, the probe had been hitting dead ends for months, sources tell the Daily Mail. Maria Medetis Long, a senior career prosecutor, was reported by CNN to have been taken off the case earlier this year after she expressed concerns about the strength of the evidence.

A group of Trump allies has taken over the probe, with Kurt Olsen leading the charge. Olsen was once a White House official and openly denied the results of the 2020 election. He ignored calls for comment from the Daily Mail. Kenneth Wainstein, the defense attorney for Robert Brennan, told a federal judge in Washington last week that several prosecutors had been moved aside simply because they refused to push this case forward.

Wainstein claimed there were intentional efforts by the Department of Justice to hide possible misconduct in what he called a far-reaching investigation. He pointed to the firing of Maria Medetis Long and the hiring of loyalists as proof of underhanded activity. There is a lot of really underhanded stuff going on, Wainstein said. The inability to move the probe forward in Florida's Southern District contributed to Pam Bondi losing her job as attorney general earlier this year, as reported by the Daily Mail.

Sources say Blanche installed a Trump loyalist specifically to create distance between his office and this politically radioactive matter. That arrangement let him defer questions about progress directly to DiGenova until recently. The Justice Department's only known intervention up until last week was preventing Kurt Olsen from seeing sensitive classified information. One person told the Daily Mail that Blanche does not want to touch this case at all.

Publicly, Blanche insists nothing has changed. Attorney Joe diGenova, a longtime Trump ally, was tapped to oversee the investigation in the Southern District of Florida. When asked this week about any investigations he was leading, he said they would not slow down just because someone leaves. His office stated that US Attorney Jason Quinones will take over with support from the Justice Department. Exactly what that support means remains unclear. No grand jury has been summoned yet.

Harry Litman, who served as deputy assistant attorney general from 1993 to 1998, offered a grim forecast. They are going to churn, and I don't even think they'll have something to present to a grand jury, he said. The grand conspiracy is a fiction, Wainstein added. You can't think of another case like this grand conspiracy to deny Trump his civil rights because there's never been any case like it. Many actions at the heart of the probe are roughly a decade old and involve multiple agencies that investigated Trump, his campaign, or people in his orbit.

It is unclear how one might establish alleged criminal conduct when the charge itself is not an existing crime under US code. Blanche had sent individuals to attempt to rein in DiGenova according to the Daily Mail. There's no such thing as great conspiracy, noted Litman. It's a wet dream for MAGA folks. And it's a way to try and express some weird conspiracy and connection as tenuous as, say, Pizzagate, to different actors, he said. He was referring to the debunked theory that claimed a pedophilia ring involving high-ranking Democratic Party officials operated out of a basement in Washington DC.

The case either goes totally nowhere due to the impossibility of moving beyond the subpoena phase or it crashes and burn right after an indictment, Litman added. Brennan, who has described the campaign as one of harassment, filed a countersuit in Washington seeking to preserve records in the cases against him. The Daily Mail contacted Brennan's attorney for comment. What remains is a hot-button case that has failed to bear fruit. No one wants to talk about this case right now, DiGenova told the Daily Mail by phone.

The official said nothing about why he left so quickly. Sources close to the investigation have been repeating that feeling for some time now. One high-ranking person at the Department of Justice put it plainly last week: 'No one wants to touch this with a 10-foot pole.