On Sunday, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche sat across from Maria Bartiromo on Fox News and said something no senior law enforcement official in America has said publicly in five years.
"There's a ton of evidence that the election was rigged."
That's a direct quote. From the person who runs the Department of Justice. On the record. Not an anonymous source. Not a leak. The Acting Attorney General of the United States, using the word "rigged," in reference to the 2020 presidential election.
Bartiromo asked him directly: "Now, the president says all the time that the election was rigged. What have you done about that?"
Blanche didn't hedge. Multiple criminal investigations are underway. Subpoenas are coming. And his exact words on what comes next: "The American people will learn about what we uncovered."
Not a review. Not an audit. Not a bipartisan commission. Active criminal investigations — with subpoenas — into what happened in 2020. That's what the man running the DOJ said on Sunday morning.
The scope of what investigators are examining is specific. Blanche told Bartiromo the DOJ is looking at whether the correct people voted, whether eligible voters actually cast the ballots attributed to them, and whether the one-person-one-vote principle was honored. The states in focus: Arizona. Georgia. Fulton County. He explained why results have taken this long: "It takes a lot of work to uncover what happened in 2020."
Now go back to November 12, 2020 — seventeen days after election night. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a statement declaring 2020 "the most secure election in American history." That became the official position of the federal government, the major media organizations, and every major technology platform simultaneously. Anyone who questioned it publicly risked being labeled an election denier, a threat to democracy, or an insurrectionist. Social media accounts were suspended. The debate, they said, was closed.
The questions people were asking in 2020 were about Arizona. About Georgia. About Fulton County. About whether the correct people voted. About whether the one-person-one-vote principle was honored.
Those are now the exact questions the Acting Attorney General of the United States is investigating under criminal authority.
If you do a CTRL-F search for any major news organization or Democratic official who acknowledged in the past five years that any of these questions deserved criminal investigation, you will find zero results. The consensus was total. The matter was settled. The people still asking were the problem.
The Acting AG just told them the matter was not settled. It was under investigation while investigators did the work.
Blanche said the American people will learn what was uncovered. That timeline is now being measured in subpoenas. For the millions of people who watched what happened on election night 2020 and spent the next five years being told their eyes were lying to them — the man with the authority to find out just confirmed he's finding out.
