US attorney general Todd Blanche on Sunday declined to assure that the federal justice department he helms would always act independently of the White House and Donald Trump.

“No, I’m not going to pledge that,” he said when asked about the topic by NBC’s Meet the Press host, Kristen Welker. “And no attorney general should ever pledge that.”

Blanche also claimed Trump would never ask him to do something that crosses an ethical or legal line – after the president dismissed his predecessor, Pam Bondi, having become frustrated over insufficient action from the justice department against Trump’s political foes.

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    3 days ago

    They are not intimate nor buddy-buddy with each other.

    The word used was not “intimate” nor “buddy buddy”, it was “independent”.

    I’m speaking generally

    Thenstop replying to me to argue about things I didn’t say?

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      2 days ago

      stop replying to me to argue about things I didn’t say?

      you’re not who I originally responded to and you came in later in the chain. I made one reply on a public forum and you’re already all “stop talking to me”?

      Come on, man.

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        2 days ago

        Are you trying to gaslight me? I made a parent comment that you replied to. I didn’t “come in later” to anything. You did not make 1 reply, you replied to me 6 times.

        Come on, man.