Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche went on Fox News' Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo and said what got millions of Americans banned from social media three years ago: the 2020 election was rigged, there's a mountain of evidence to prove it, and the Department of Justice is actively investigating. Not "looking into it." Not "reviewing." Investigating — with hundreds of subpoenas and hundreds of witnesses.
Remember when saying that made you a domestic extremist? Good times.
Blanche didn't mince words during his May 17 appearance. "There's a ton of evidence that the election was rigged," he told Bartiromo. "We have multiple investigations going on in Arizona, in Georgia, in Fulton County, Georgia." Multiple investigations. Multiple states. The DOJ isn't running a book club — they're running a criminal operation with the kind of scope that makes defense attorneys start returning phone calls.
But that's just the 2020 side of the ledger. The Russia hoax cleanup is running on a parallel track, and the numbers are staggering. According to Blanche, the Southern District of Florida has an open criminal investigation that involves — and this is a direct quote — "hundreds of subpoenas" and "hundreds of witnesses." That's not a fishing expedition. That's a dragnet.
"We're finding out some incredibly troubling things," Blanche said, "and at some point at the right time, that will be made public."
Let's pause on that for a second. The Acting Attorney General of the United States just told a national television audience that the DOJ has uncovered "incredibly troubling things" about both the 2020 election and the origins of the Russia collusion hoax. Three years ago, you'd get your Twitter account nuked for typing half of that sentence.
The investigations are focused on whether the right people voted, whether eligible voters actually cast the ballots attributed to them, and whether individuals voted more than once. Arizona and Fulton County, Georgia — two of the most contested jurisdictions from 2020 — are ground zero. These aren't random audit requests from state legislators. This is the full weight of the federal DOJ bearing down on specific counties with specific evidence.
And on the Russia hoax front, the Southern District of Florida investigation suggests that the people who manufactured the collusion narrative are finally going to answer for it. Not in a congressional hearing where they can plead the Fifth and go to dinner afterward. In a courtroom. With a judge. And consequences.
Blanche, who became Acting AG after President Trump fired Pam Bondi in April 2026, has clearly been given the green light to go where the evidence leads. And FBI Director Kash Patel isn't exactly known for pulling punches either. The adults who actually want accountability are finally in charge of the agencies that spent four years pretending there was nothing to see.
"We are working hard, and we are working efficiently, but we are going to do it right," Blanche said. Translation: indictments are coming, but they're building airtight cases first.
As reported by 100 Percent Fed Up, the scope of what Blanche described — covering both the 2020 election fraud and the Russia collusion origins — represents the most aggressive DOJ posture on these issues since Trump took office for his second term.
We spent years being told the 2020 election was the most secure in American history. We spent years watching people lose their jobs, their platforms, and their reputations for questioning that claim. Now the Acting AG is sitting on national television confirming that the DOJ has a mountain of evidence saying otherwise — and that criminal charges are on the table.
Every single person who got banned, silenced, or called a conspiracy theorist for saying exactly this deserves an apology. They won't get one. But they might get something better: indictments.