{"id":2610972,"date":"2026-06-05T08:19:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-only-thing-toe-curling-about-doj-accountability-is-politicos-aversion-to-it\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T08:21:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:21:20","slug":"the-only-thing-toe-curling-about-doj-accountability-is-politicos-aversion-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-only-thing-toe-curling-about-doj-accountability-is-politicos-aversion-to-it\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Accountability Isn&#8217;t The Problem, Politico Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-only-thing-toe-curling-about-doj-accountability-is-politicos-aversion-to-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2610972&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The excerpt criticizes *Politico Playbook* for attacking Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche\u2019s nomination while, the writer argues, *Politico* previously helped enable or ignore Democrat-led \u201clawfare\u201d against Donald Trump and Republicans. It claims the *Politico* segment portrays Blanche as dishonestly or aggressively seeking charges to curry favor with Trump, citing his role in overseeing DOJ actions against James Comey and characterizing earlier Bondi-era enforcement as already having \u201clowered the bar.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>It also attacks Politico\u2019s editors and reporter Josh Gerstein, alleging Gerstein has promoted controversial or biased reporting in the past (including involvement in the leaked *Dobbs* draft controversy and other media criticism), and concludes that the outlet\u2019s tone is driven by partisan aims rather than journalistic standards. The author argues that *Politico* is more concerned with the Trump DOJ being held accountable than with what they describe as prior abuses targeting Democrats\u2019 political opponents, framing modern mainstream coverage as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-survival-guide-for-conservatives-during-the-biden-years\/\" title=\"A Survival Guide for Conservatives During the Biden Years\">left-wing propaganda<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>You really have to admire the chutzpah of the hacks running the left-wing rag known as <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/politico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Politico<\/a>. After spending years <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/politico\/page\/3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">enabling<\/a> Democrat lawfare against Donald Trump and Republicans, the outlet now has the gall to whine that the bill for their <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >political buddies\u2019 authoritarian tactics<\/a> may finally be coming due.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of Managing Editor Jack Blanchard (with \u201chelp\u201d from others), the little meltdown was on full display in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2026\/06\/04\/todd-blanches-next-big-fight-00949789?nname=playbook&#038;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&#038;nrid=0e5ca491-4fc7-4617-a35f-6ae2e4ba8c34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Thursday\u2019s edition<\/a> of \u201cPolitico Playbook,\u201d which focused (in part) on President Trump\u2019s recently announced <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Scavino47\/status\/2062369458723680722?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plan<\/a> to nominate Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to the position permanently. <\/p>\n<p>Blanchard started off his \u201canalysis\u201d by practically slobbering over Senate GOP loser <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/06\/04\/congress\/blanches-uncertain-path-00950539\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Thom Tillis<\/a> and his willingness to be a potential \u201croadblock\u201d against Blanche\u2019s nomination. Assuming readers are able to get past that part without hurling, they\u2019re then greeted with a barrage of gaslighting about the Trump Justice Department. <\/p>\n<p>In pointing out Blanche\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/federal-grand-jury-indicts-former-fbi-director-james-comey-threats-harm-president-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">role<\/a> in overseeing the DOJ\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/04\/28\/james-comey-indicted-for-86-47-threat-against-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent charges<\/a> against former FBI Director <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/james-comey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">James Comey<\/a>, the Politico editor hypothesized that \u201cBlanche\u2019s decision to seek new charges \u2014 three weeks after becoming Acting AG \u2014 is thought to have been a key factor in convincing Trump to offer him the job full-time.\u201d He further attempted to push Democrats\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/2AHIZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">narrative<\/a> that Trump is on a \u201crevenge tour\u201d by characterizing prospective lawbreakers unsuccessfully prosecuted by former Attorney General Pam Bondi as Trump\u2019s \u201cpolitical enemies,\u201d and their charges as \u201cflims[y].\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Far from finished, Blanchard claimed that \u201cBondi <em>already <\/em>moved the bar a long way.\u201d He then cited remarks from Politico\u2019s so-called \u201clegal ace\u201d Josh Gerstein, who dutifully contended that \u201cDuring the Bondi era, many were stunned by the lengths to which the Justice Department was going to carry out Trump\u2019s political vendettas.\u201d Gerstein also surmised that Blanche\u2019s \u201cintensified\u201d accountability campaign since becoming acting AG \u201cseemed like an overt campaign\u201d to \u201caudition[]\u201d for the full-time job. <\/p>\n<p>If Gerstein\u2019s name sounds familiar, it should. He\u2019s one of the crackpot reporters who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/05\/02\/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published<\/a> the leaked Supreme Court <em>Dobbs<\/em> draft opinion back in 2022 \u2014 a decision that ultimately <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/04\/18\/explosive-report-as-dobbs-majority-faced-death-threats-liberal-justices-slow-walked-release\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">resulted<\/a> in left-wing anarchists descending on the homes of the conservative justices, a wave of death threats against those justices, and an assassination attempt against Justice Kavanaugh. He also attempted to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/06\/nyts-jodi-kantor-has-a-history-of-peddling-deranged-anti-alito-hoaxes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">give legitimacy<\/a> to the media hatchet job against Justice Samuel Alito and benign flags flown at his residence. <\/p>\n<p>Piling on Gerstein\u2019s screed, Blanchard concluded his anti-Blanche hit piece by claiming the acting AG \u201chas bent over backward to convince Trump of his loyalty.\u201d \u201cAnd at times,\u201d he wrote, \u201chis obsequiousness toward the president has been toe-curling.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Contrary to the bubble that media dolts like these live in, the only thing that\u2019s \u201ctoe-curling\u201d about this entire debacle is how low Blanchard and his colleagues are willing to go to debase themselves for their Democrat allies. <\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t think for a second that it\u2019s some kind of accident that Politico didn\u2019t acknowledge the Obama and Biden Justice Departments\u2019 laundry list of abuses against Trump and conservatives in their \u201cPlaybook.\u201d The decision to obfuscate any mention of the Democrat-led Russa collusion hoax or the targeting of concerned parents at school board meetings, faithful Christians, 2020 election Trump lawyers and protestors, Trump himself, and Republican members of Congress (to name a few) was a choice. <\/p>\n<p>Politico is more horrified that the Trump DOJ is seeking accountability for these egregious abuses than they are at the abuses themselves. And they will gladly portray the president and his team as the power-hungry tyrants that Democrats are to cover them up. <\/p>\n<p>Ethical Americans may wonder what kind of self-professed \u201cnews\u201d organization would do such a thing. <\/p>\n<p>Well, Politico would. And so would every other major media outlet that went along with and empowered Democrat prosecutors\u2019 unprecedented weaponization of government to target their political opponents. It\u2019s basically their MO at this point. <\/p>\n<p>In case it wasn\u2019t already obvious, what\u2019s happening in most modern media today is not journalism. It\u2019s straight-up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/propublica-wins-pulitzer-for-dishonest-smear-of-pro-life-laws\/\" title=\"ProPublica Wins Pulitzer For Dishonest Smear Of Pro-Life Laws\">left-wing propaganda designed<\/a> to bolster the Democrat Party\u2019s preferred narrative, plain and simple. <\/p>\n<p>Politico Playbook is no exception to that standard. In fact, it is the standard \u2014 one that Americans would be all the wiser to treat like the flaming hot garbage that it is.  <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He is a co-recipient of the 2025 Dao Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism. His work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics and RealClearHealth. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have to admire Politico\u2019s chutzpah: after years enabling Democrat lawfare, it now whines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":2610973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Todd-Blanche.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[8049,7076,33295,5894,47267],"class_list":["post-2610972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-accountability","tag-doj","tag-media-criticism","tag-politics","tag-public-trust"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Todd-Blanche.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2610972"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2610977,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610972\/revisions\/2610977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2610973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2610972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2610972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2610972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}