RINO Thom Tillis has threatened to torpedo the nomination of Todd Blanche as U.S. Attorney General unless he explicitly condemns the January 6 protesters.
During an interview on CNN on Thursday, Tillis, as head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, pledged to use his power to block Blanche.
Here is a transcript of the exchange:
HOST: So why is it so important to get this, to target the weaponization fund here, is it’s because the president has kept this option open?”
TILLIS: Well, even the AG has said that it’s done. So I don’t know why we just don’t codify it.
I actually believe that getting this issue off the table improves Todd’s chances of getting through Judiciary and getting through the floor. If this is still out there can you imagine what the Democrats are going to do to that man during a confirmation hearing? Can you imagine how that could potentially influence a couple of our members? We take this off the table, Todd’s chances of becoming confirmed as the AG go up.”
HOST: But if it’s not off the table, could you support — if the weaponization fund is not completely off the table, if you don’t codify it into law, could you support Todd Blanche as attorney general?
TILLIS: We’re looking at it. I haven’t made a decision yet. The key for Todd or anybody going through Judiciary Committee is being pretty tight on, January 6.
They better not have said for one minute that the people that beat up police officers like these right down here were righteous people. You come even close to saying that you don’t have a prayer of getting my vote in Judiciary.
Watch the clip below:
Thom Tillis, walking into my live shot, makes news on two fronts.
He says he’s a NO on Trump’s immigration bill without amendment killing weaponization fund.
He warns he’s a NO on Blanche if any equivocation on J6.
If there is, “you don’t even have a (chance) of getting my vote” pic.twitter.com/AYfXxHNCgz— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 4, 2026
In an interview with Washington Examiner, Tillis said that Blanche was in “dangerous waters” because of his past statements about January 6th.
“Outside of that, I mean, he’s got good credentials — people are going to hammer him because he was the president’s personal attorney, but I’m just more about getting through the J6 stuff,” Tillis said.
“It’s not a gray area for me. Either he equivocated and said harming these Capitol police officers was an OK thing, or he didn’t, and we’ll find that in the due diligence.”
Tillis told me today he has a lot of “respect” for Blanche and credits him with de-escalating the impasse over Jerome Powell
“Todd was instrumental in kind of de-escalating the whole Powell matter.”
But Tillis reiterated his red line on Jan. 6, calling it a “circuit breaker”… https://t.co/RcOQ1kyRZZ
— David Sivak (@DISivak) June 4, 2026
Tillis previously derailed Ed Martin’s nomination for D.C. US Attorney over his statements about January 6th.
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