Todd Blanche tells Pod Force One Ilhan Omar will be given one right Trump was denied during indictments

Embattled Rep.Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is allowed to speak freely about the federal immigration fraud investigation against her – a privilege President Trump was not afforded during his legal woes, Attorney General Todd Blanche noted on the latest episode of “Pod Force One.” Blanche, who served as Trump’s personal lawyer when the president faced four criminal indictments during his 2024 campaign, couldn’t discuss the details of the ongoing case against Omar but drew a contrast between the Minnesota Democrat’s treatment and the various gag orders imposed on Trump. “To the extent that [Omar’s] commented on it, one of the things that she said is that we’re not going to keep her quiet, right? We’re not trying to keep her quiet,” Blanche told “Pod Force One” host Miranda Devine. “There’s no effort by the Department of Justice, unlike the last Department of Justice that worked very hard to keep President Trump quiet by getting gag orders and the like – that’s not what we’re doing,” the attorney general added.  Former Special Counsel Jack Smith asked judges to place gag orders on Trump in the election interference and classified documents cases. Smith was successful in the election interference case, but a judge denied the prosecutor’s effort to keep Trump from discussing the classified documents case. The president was also subjected to gag orders during his civil fraud and “hush money” trials in Manhattan. Given Trump’s treatment by the Biden DOJ and lefty district attorneys, Blanche accused Democrats “gaslighting the American people” when they suggest Trump is “weaponizing” the Department of Justice against the “Squad” congresswoman. Every week, Post columnist Miranda Devine sits down for exclusive and candid conversations with the most influential disruptors in Washington on ‘Pod Force One.’ Subscribe here!“If you compare – and we’ve spent a lot of time at the Department of Justice working on our...