Garcia Responds To Blanche’s Threats: ‘We’re Not Going To Be Intimidated’

Rep. Robert Garcia, next Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, shot back at corrupt AG Todd Blanche after he tripled down on his threats to Democrats for daring to talk about doing their jobs. Blanche was on Fox News earlier this week telling Laura Ingraham that he’s Stephen Miller’s lawyer.

He made the rounds on the Sunday shows and not only repeated the nonsense about personally defending this corrupt administration, but directly threatened to imprison Democrats as well.

wow — Blanche on Fox News Sunday claims oversight from Dems is “not the way this country can survive or live with these ongoing threats … if you work in this administration, you have a lawyer. It’s me.”

(Note that at the end even the Fox News host is a bit taken aback by Blanche’s rhetoric … )

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) November 8, 2026 at 9:22 AM

here’s is full footage of the crashout Attorney General Todd Blanche just had on CNN, including him confirming he’ll investigate Democrats on Trump’s demand and leaving the door open to trying to imprison them

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) November 8, 2026 at 8:25 AM

Garcia came on CNN immediately after Blanche and made it clear that his empty threats weren’t going to work:

BASH: You just heard the attorney general say “I would be very worried if I were a member of that committee.” He’s talking about your committee. Your response?

GARCIA: I mean, look, I think, first, we should always remember that Todd Blanche was Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, and he continues obviously to play that role.

I mean, it is ridiculous that we have the attorney general saying to the American public that somehow he’s going to defend administration officials, when his job is to defend the Constitution and the Department of Justice to be the people’s lawyer. And he’s anything but that.

And, quite frankly, what Todd Blanche is doing right now is a threat. He is threatening our committee. He’s trying to stop us from doing real oversight. He is the person that should be reading the Constitution, because the Constitution makes it very clear that it’s our job in the Congress to conduct oversight of the executive and the administration.

And the fact that he won’t recognize that, all he wants to do is protect Donald Trump, is protect Donald Trump’s Cabinet and administration officials. That is not his job, I want to remind him. And he also needs to be reminded that Oversight is going to do our job, and that is to look at corruption, to pass legislation to stop further corruption, and to ensure that all those that are committing crimes against the American public need to be held accountable.

BASH: Even if you’re being investigated by the DOJ?

GARCIA: Look, they can come after us however they want. We’re not going to be intimidated. We’re not going to — look, the DOJ, Donald Trump’s DOJ sent me a letter two years ago saying they were going to investigate me for comments I made actually on a CNN program.

I mean, it’s ridiculous. They have — they have such — they’re so thin-skinned. It’s like, guys, relax. We have a job to do, and we’re going to do it aggressively.

He should have told her that this is what the “weaponization of the Justice Department” that this administration loves to complain about actually looks like. Something that, sadly, Bash did not point out to Blanche as well.

Bash went on to press him about whether they’ll investigate Miller and members of Trump’s family — as though she doesn’t already know full well herself the reasons why those investigations are valid.

BASH: Well, let me ask you about the job that you said that you had to do. You did say that Stephen Miller needs to lawyer up. Why are you going to investigate him? Do you think that he committed a crime?

GARCIA: Well, what we think is that Stephen Miller is the architect of this horrific, unjust policy happening across the country in the way that we are treating folks.

Look, Stephen Miller called Alex Pretti, as we know, an assassin. The way that he is going around creating immigration policy that separates families, that is causing people harm, that’s creating a detention process where a few large companies are profiting, the unconstitutional detention of people, the way that folks are losing their due process rights, that has to be investigated.

And we know that Stephen Miller has been an architect of that. And so what’s happening there, what’s happening in Iran, Stephen Miller is at the center of the major policy decisions that are happening in the administration. And so it does deserve oversight and investigation.

BASH: Oversight and investigation. Do you think anything that he did was criminal?

GARCIA: That is — well, what’s important is, we believe that he’s been at the center of actions…

BASH: Yes.

GARCIA: … that are unconstitutional, unjust, and possibly illegal. So we’re, of course, going to investigate that.

BASH: You have signaled that you intend to investigate the — quote — “Trump crime family.” How far does that go? Do you want to include the president’s son, Don Jr., his son-in-law, Jared Kushner?

GARCIA: This is the most corrupt family to ever be in the Oval Office in the White House. I mean, Donald Trump is the most corrupt person to every president of the United States.

You have Don Jr. getting hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Russian oligarch for his wedding, sitting on boards of companies that are getting contracts from the Pentagon. You have Jared Kushner getting $2 billion from the Saudis after leaving the White House.

BASH: So, yes, you’re going to investigate that.

GARCIA: Absolutely. The family…

BASH: Are you going to call them in to testify?

GARCIA: They should be expected to answer questions.

And this is — the grift that is happening on the American public, as the Trumps are billions of dollars richer, the American public can’t pay the gas and the groceries. What happened on Tuesday is — it directly impacts our work.

People are tired and sick of the grift of the Trump family, and they want relief on affordability.

Yes we are. Garcia’s going to be very busy for the next two years, which he made clear as the interview went on and he discussed the other things they’ll be investigating as well, like Musk and other companies and donors and pay-to-play with this administration, DOGE and a host of others.

It’s good to see them ignoring the threats, along with the hectoring by members of the media.