Adam Schiff Tries to Embarrass AG Nominee Todd Blanche, but It Wasn't a Fair Fight
Schiff challenged Blanche over the Justice Department’s handling of the unreleased report.

SOURCE CHECK
TAP FOR WHYRedState is an established conservative outlet, but this is an opinion article with highly partisan language rather than a transparently reported account. The author is named, while the article offers little independent sourcing to verify its central interpretation.
- Source type — Opinion-first publisher; this page is explicitly an opinion-style article.
- Editorial standards — The article uses overtly partisan insults and does not distinguish its interpretation from reported fact consistently.
- Author attribution — A named author is credited.
- Source diversity — The article includes hearing excerpts but offers little independent corroboration or competing context.
The article supplies excerpts from the hearing and a relevant chronology, but relies heavily on one perspective, makes unsupported evaluative assertions, and uses loaded language. The quoted exchange provides some primary-source material, but the article does not meaningfully test the competing claims.
HOW WE SCORE ↗The article presents excerpts from both participants, but its narration overwhelmingly endorses Blanche’s account and ridicules Schiff. It does not substantially explore the basis for Schiff’s concern or independently assess the competing claims.
- Counterarguments presented — Schiff’s questions appear in excerpts, but his underlying argument receives little fair explanation.
- Loaded language — Frequent insults and emphatic ridicule strongly favor one side.
- Source diversity — The piece offers no independent sources beyond the hearing excerpts.
- Opinion vs reporting — Opinion and factual narration are blended throughout.
The article strongly favors Blanche and attacks Schiff through repeated insults and dismissive framing. Its language and selection of claims convey a clear conservative, anti-Schiff perspective.
- Language tone — Uses pointed insults and derogatory descriptions of Schiff while presenting Blanche favorably.
- Framing — Frames the exchange as Schiff’s failed attempt to embarrass Blanche.
- Source selection — Relies on Blanche’s rebuttal and the author’s interpretation, with little independent context.
At Todd Blanche’s Senate confirmation hearing, Adam Schiff questioned him about the Justice Department’s decision not to release part of Jack Smith’s report. Blanche said the decision predated his role and that he was recused; the article argues Schiff’s accusation was unfair.
During Blanche’s Senate confirmation hearing, Schiff questioned him about the unreleased second volume of Jack Smith’s report on the classified-documents investigation and said Blanche had a conflict of interest. Blanche replied that he was not involved in the decision, was recused, and did not support releasing the report. The article says Blanche was not acting attorney general when the department decided against releasing it or when Judge Aileen Cannon made her final ruling.
The article portrays the exchange as an unsuccessful attempt by Schiff to embarrass Blanche and uses strongly critical language about Schiff. It also mentions scrutiny of Smith’s tenure and a brief exchange in which Schiff asked Blanche about his past as a prosecutor; Blanche replied that he was the same person.
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4 OUTLETSAt Todd Blanche’s attorney general confirmation hearing, Adam Schiff questioned Blanche about his conduct and alleged conflicts. Blanche disputed Schiff’s account or denied the allegations. Right-leaning outlets generally cast Schiff’s accusations as unfair or false and Blanche as their rebutter; one article instead foregrounds former Attorney General John Ashcroft’s response to Schiff.
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