The DOJ Is Trump's Personal Revenge Machine. Cassidy Hutchinson Is Now in the Crosshairs.

April 25, 2026

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has greenlighted a criminal investigation into Cassidy Hutchinson, the January 6 star witness who testified that Trump lunged for the steering wheel and tried to join the Capitol riot. At the same time, Blanche fired the career prosecutor who refused to charge former CIA Director John Brennan because the evidence was not there, and replaced him with a Trump loyalist. The pattern is undeniable: the DOJ is now a political weapon aimed at everyone who ever crossed Donald Trump.

Cassidy Hutchinson: The Witness Who Told the Truth Gets Investigated

Cassidy Hutchinson testified before the January 6 committee in June 2022. She described Trump grabbing at the presidential limo's steering wheel, kicking off his security detail, and knowing the mob was armed. Her testimony was electric. It also put a target on her back.

Rep. Barry Loudermilk, the Republican chair of a J6 subcommittee, filed a criminal referral against Hutchinson. Blanche has now approved an inquiry. No details of the specific allegations have been released, but the timeline is clear: she testified against Trump, a Trump loyalist filed a referral, and now the DOJ is investigating her.

There is no allegation of underlying criminal conduct from Hutchinson. The referral itself is the weapon.

Fire the Prosecutor Who Said No

The Brennan investigation tells a cleaner story. Career prosecutor Maria Medetis Long was overseeing the probe into Brennan, the former CIA director whose office assessed that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump. Long told her supervisors: there is not sufficient evidence to bring charges.

She was removed from the case.

Joseph diGenova, a former Trump campaign lawyer who helped defend Trump during his first term, has taken over. He will now lead what Blanche's DOJ calls "a sprawling inquiry" into a "grand conspiracy" by Obama-era officials to embarrass Trump in 2016.

There is no new evidence. There is a new prosecutor willing to pursue what the last one said was unjustifiable.

The Full Enemy List

Blanche's retribution sweep extends well beyond Hutchinson and Brennan. The DOJ is investigating ActBlue, the Democratic fundraising platform, over donor screening practices. The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted on April 21 on wire fraud and money laundering charges after prosecutors alleged it secretly paid informants who were members of extremist organizations. Prosecutors are also subpoenaing bodyguards who protected Fani Willis, the Georgia state prosecutor who brought criminal charges against Trump.

"Acting AG Blanche is striving to silence critics with a conspicuous salvo of actions to demonstrate progress on the president's priorities, among them payback against Trump's adversaries." — CNN, April 21, 2026

All of this is happening while Trump posted on Truth Social at 1:13 a.m. Friday, accusing Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton of treason and suggesting, again, that Obama should be arrested.

The Pattern, Stated Plainly

Blanche fired Pam Bondi's entire investigative team for going too slow. He removed a career prosecutor for going too honest. He hired Trump's personal lawyer to pursue cases career prosecutors found legally baseless. He is now investigating a January 6 witness, a Democratic fundraising platform, a civil rights nonprofit, and the bodyguards of a prosecutor who indicted Trump.

This is not an attorney general. This is a department of retribution.

The Department of Justice is no longer a law enforcement agency in any recognizable sense. Under Blanche, it is the enforcement arm of Trump's grievance list. The targets are not criminals. They are people who told the truth, raised money for Democrats, tracked hate groups, or prosecuted the president. When a DOJ's function is to punish whoever crossed the president, the institution itself is the corruption.

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