Blanche panicked over blowback fears after firing influential DOJ attorney: insiders

Todd Blanche reacted with alarm after firing the Justice Department’s pardon attorney, fearing the timing would look like retaliation over actor Mel Gibson, according to a report from PunchUp’s Tom Latchem. Blanche, who was deputy attorney general at the time and has since taken over the department after the firing of Attorney General Pam Bondi,…