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Todd Blanche: “Colin McDonald is a veteran prosecutor who has spent his…”

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Acting AG Blanche speaks on fraud

Published April 7, 2026 | Video Starts at 02:52

And there is no better prosecutor to lead this mission than newly Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald who's standing to my left. In the words of President Trump, he is very smart, tough and highly respected. Colin McDonald is a veteran prosecutor who has spent his entire career as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of California. During his time in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, he championed public safety and law enforcement. (02:52–03:00)

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Todd Blanche

“With over a trillion dollars at stake every single year threatened by increasingly sophisticated and opportunistic fraudsters.”
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“There will be an additional 93 prosecutors in every district across the country devoted to the mission of combating fraud with the National…”
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“Has never adopted a comprehensive and coordinated approach to investigating and prosecuting fraud against taxpayer dollars and taxpayer…”
Acting AG Blanche speaks on fraud | Uploaded April 7, 2026 | 00:00-00:11
“The time for this comprehensive and coordinated approach is now.”
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“Creation of the National Fraud Enforcement Division.”
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“Every U.S. attorney's office, which necessarily means every state, and in many states more than one, will have at least one prosecutor…”
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“The new division will bring together data and investigators from across the entire government.”
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“Directing the Department to establish the National Fraud Detention Center.”
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“This fraud detention center will be a permanent prosecutor led multi agency data analytics team.”
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“The Department will investigate you, we will charge you with crimes and we will ensure that you are punished for your actions.”
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“The American people deserve an end to the crisis of fraud.”
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“During his time in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, he championed public safety and law enforcement.”
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“I expect there will be more to come in the next days and weeks from Colin and the Anti Fraud Task Force.”
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“We have thousands of ongoing investigations and prosecutions going on in this country right now.”
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“This department helped Two other local DAs go after the president.”
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“We have tens of thousands of prosecutors all over this country putting bad guys in jail.”
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“I am the acting Attorney General.”
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“We've been regularly communicating over the past several days for an appropriate transition.”
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“The Department of Justice prosecutors and support staff that are in the new division are going to report to this man right here and then…”
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“Our department is prosecuting more cases than were prosecuted for three years, year over year, stat after stat, crime over crime.”
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“Every single federal agency is involved in this, where we get a lot of our cases from the OIGs, from their inspector generals.”
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“What happened the last four years is something that will never happen again.”
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“We will investigate. If it means sending a subpoena to the reporter. That's exactly what we should do, and that's exactly what we will be…”
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“We will always investigate those types of leaks.”
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“It's primarily criminal. But I don't think that we want to limit ourselves as I stand here and announce it today.”
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“There is always communication between a president and his priorities and what the Department of Justice should be focused on and not focused…”
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“If the president of our United States says, I have heard that there is ongoing fraud in Minneapolis, Minnesota, like any president before…”
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