‘It’s F*cking Asinine!’ Chuck Todd Blows His Top in F-Bomb-Laced Fit Over Todd Blanche’s AG Tenure

Chuck Todd erupted in an expletive-filled broadside against Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday, accusing President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer of tearing down the “traditional firewall” between the White House and the Justice Department.

The former NBC Meet the Press moderator unleashed on Blanche during his YouTube show, The Chuck ToddCast, pointing to the attorney general’s appearance alongside Trump at a political rally Friday and subsequent comments on his old show on Sunday.

“Now, let me get angry here for a minute,” Todd began, before blasting Republican senators who backed Blanche’s confirmation as “absurd and myopic.”

Todd argued his objection was not about Blanche’s qualifications but whether he could distinguish between representing Trump personally and serving as the nation’s top law enforcement official: “He’s been Attorney General for about 5 minutes, and he’s already told us exactly what kind of Attorney General he tends to be.”

Todd sarcastically took aim at Blanche for appearing at Trump’s rally for New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman: “I’m sure all of you remember Merrick Garland doing these stump speeches for [New York Governor] Kathy Hochul. Oh, right? They didn’t happen. Because nobody ever would have behaved this way. This is not what Attorneys General traditionally have ever done!”

“The absurdity of [Richard] Nixon putting his Attorney General in charge of his campaign is a mixing of that,” he said. “But if you have to go back to Nixon to find an example for your Attorney General, then you’re probably not doing the Attorney General thing very well, are you?

He then turned to Blanche’s appearance with Kristen Welker two days later on NBC, where the attorney general had failed an opportunity to pledge that the Justice Department would operate independently of the White House.

“Todd Blanche wants the Justice Department to be politicized. That’s what he went on television on Sunday and said!” the host railed.

He continued: “And I know how this works, some people are going to hear me say this and assume this is simply some sort of partisan-driven outrage about Donald Trump, that this is true TDS – give me a freaking break!”

“If you thought Eric Holder was too close to Barack Obama, you should be outraged. If you thought Merrick Garland was politicizing the Justice Department, you should be outraged,” he went on. “If you thought Democrats violated the traditional firewall between the White House and the Justice Department, then presumably your solution was to rebuild the f*cking firewall.”

“But instead, you take what you think happened, which you don’t have evidence that it did, but you project it and you behave worse than the way you accuse the other side of behaving,” he added.

“You are literally burning the rest down,” he said, accusing Trump of operating under the “two wrongs make a right theory of government.”

“That’s not how the freaking Constitution works, sir!” he railed. “It’s f*cking asinine.”

Todd raged that Blanche had “simply retained the client and changed the title on his business card.”

“Pure and simple,” he said.

Todd saved some of his anger for Republican Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA), whom he identified among senators who had expressed concerns about Blanche but ultimately backed his confirmation.

“Really, guys?” Todd demanded. “You’re telling me after watching this performance on Meet the Press, you feel good about your vote?!”

“Let’s give him bonus points for telling us the truth,” the host concluded. “Because the traditional idea of an attorney general, somebody who is part of an administration but understands that the prosecutorial power of the United States government cannot become the personal instrument of the president, well, Blanche has explicitly rejected that ideal and that notion. And he’s barely even unpacked his office.”

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