Deputy AG Todd Blanche says 'organized' Trump protesters could be investigated

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Politico

09/16/2025 11:17 PM EDT


The Justice Department’s No. 2 official said Tuesday that people noisily protesting President Donald Trump could face investigation if they’re part of broader networks organizing such activities.

“Is it … sheer happenstance that individuals show up at a restaurant where the president is trying to enjoy dinner in Washington, D.C., and accost him with vile words and vile anger?” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Tuesday on CNN. “Does it mean it’s just completely random that they showed up? Maybe, maybe, but to the extent that it’s part of an organized effort to inflict harm and terror and damage to the United States, there’s potential, potential investigations there.”

As Trump prepared to sit down to dinner during a rare visit to a Washington restaurant last week, several protesters inside the business shouted, “Free DC! Free Palestine! Trump is the Hitler of our time!” They were quickly escorted out.

Asked Monday about the protest, Trump suggested Attorney General Pam Bondi should prosecute the participants, who he claimed were paid agitators. “I’ve asked Pam to look into that in terms of bringing RICO cases against them — criminal RICO,” the president said, referring to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/16/todd-blanche-pam-bondi-prosecutions-00567898

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They keep getting laughed out of court with the over-charging.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. At the root of that nonsense is the idea the head of state is the State.

They are mere incumbents and temporary ones at that.

[Marcuse]

10. "Wrong!"

[rubbersole]

24. Can't be real...

..cankles are photoshopped. 🙄

[Ocelot II]

2. What part of "the right of the people peaceably to assemble,

and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances" do you not understand, Deputy Attorney Toad Blanche? Or were you too busy making sure Epstein's former BFF Maxwell didn't spill any inconvenient beans on Dear Leader to recheck your Constitution?

[vapor2]

7. Spot on!

[LeftInTX]

12. Isn't it the SS job to assure that protesters don't get too close to the president?

Did SS sweep the establishment first? Sounds like SS was slacking and they're putting the blame on protesters.

They have a right to protest, but they usually have a perimeter around the president. What happened to that?

[Ocelot II]

14. Of course. But they're taking this beyond the normal protection of the president

by keeping the public at a safe distance. His Orangeness is not to be disturbed or vexed by seeing or hearing protesters at all, even if they are well beyond the Secret Service's designated perimeters.

[Midnight Writer]

18. Just a reminder that Trump hand-picked his own SS team.

They will be as competent as the people he chose to run our criminal justice system, our healthcare, our national security, our economy.

[mwmisses4289]

25. An article i read indicates one of the protesters found out he was dining there,

quickly contacted several others, and made a reservation for that evening for about an hour before trump showed up. The protesters actually ate there. They timed it so that they were already done with their meal when it showed up.

[LeftInTX]

27. I believe SS makes sure that the entire venue is booked for the president, unless they want the president mingling with

the public.

If they don't want the president mingling with the public, they reserve the entire venue and close it off to the rest of the public.

Many times venues are "closed for private events". That is what Trump's team should have done if they did not want to encounter the public.

[mwmisses4289]

29. Does kinda make you wonder about his team, doesn't?

On the other hand, being the attention hog that he is, he probably thought that the other patrons would give him a standing ovation the minute he walked in.

[LeftInTX]

30. It sure does!

[OldBaldy1701E]

28. Hear Hear!

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Just spell my name right.

[CentralMass]

4. This is getting insane.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

5. Fuck you

With a saguaro cactus! You ignorant pustule! And fuck the orange piece of shit you serve!

[wiggs]

6. What's the statute of limitations on the astroturfed Tea Party, which was completely

funded and organized by americans for prosperity and Kochs?

[twodogsbarking]

8. But..........

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66465240

[Marthe48]

9. This encourages me to protest harder

Posts, donations, attending protests, and keeping my like-minded friends stirred up. And any other methods of protests. I don't need to be organized. I'll just do it.

todd should investigate organized crime and how it took over the U.S. government. Investigate the monopolies that own the media, utilities, transportation and banks. Investigate real lawbreakers and not Americans exercising their right to free speech. Another one I hope is on the boat.

You know how way back when, people warned us if we didn't stop them when they came for minorities, they'd soon come for us? Here they come.

[LeftInTX]

11. Isn't it the SS job to give the president "safe space"????

Do your job SS and protesters won't disrupt his dinner.

This is BS. If SS allows protesters to get too close, then it's SS fault, not the protesters.

[Grins]

13. Remember when Republicans list all their shit...

…when the IRS went after conservative groups trying to avoid taxes based on their names or political themes?

[Martin68]

15. The Nixon administration did the same thing to silence Vietnam War protestors. They were accused of being funded by

"outside groups" and engaging in conspiracy against the US.

[Zorro]

16. Republicans are going to criminalize all Democrats

and democracy by declaring the Democratic Party as a terrorist organization.

Watch for it.

[Irish_Dem]

17. People will not be allowed to congregate for any reason except to praise Dear Leader.

[Mblaze]

19. Good!

Instead of constantly claiming that protesters are paid. They can prove that they are not. Put up or shut the fuck up.

RICO takes a crime. Protesting is not a crime. How did those protesters know that Trump was going to eat at that restaurant before the fact?

[Shipwack]

20. "Criminal RICO"?

As opposed to the less serious Legitimate RICO, I suppose…

[rurallib]

21. NO KINGS 2 protest October 18th!

be there - they can't arrest millions upon millions!

[surfered]

22. Russian citizens cannot criticize Putin, so it should be the same here.

[twodogsbarking]

23. Taunting law abiding citizens by those in charge of overthowing a 249 yr old government.

[Klarkashton]

26. Todd Blanche is a 3rd rate ambulance chaser who

Lost every trump case. Trump couldn't find anybody else that was willing to ruin their reputation to work for his sorry orange ass.