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Sen. Bill Cassidy says Blanche vote was not ‘black-and-white’
Cassidy’s decision was swayed by Blanche reaching a deal with Texas Sen. John Cornyn to nullify the payout fund for Trump allies — including Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump — on Aug. 2. The fact that Cornyn , a former Texas attorney general, was “comfortable” with the deal was important to Cassidy , he said.
“What I’m told as regards to the Anti-Weaponization Fund, if you put it in the context of the political environment, the judicial environment, the process you would have to go back through in order to reinstate it, that effectively it’s dead,” Cassidy said to Margaret Brennan on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
There were “a lot of positive things to say about Todd Blanche ” and “stable leadership” was necessary for the DOJ to do its job, Cassidy said.
Cassidy said, however, that he almost voted against Blanche for continuing to grant protection to Trump and his family from IRS probes.
“That is wrong — and no American should be targeted by the law, but no American should be above the law. And that, frankly, almost weighed to vote ‘No,’” he said to Brennan .