2026年5月6日 美国东部时间18:54 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（CBS News）
作者：卡米洛·蒙托亚-加尔韦斯、乔·沃尔什
卡米洛·蒙托亚-加尔韦斯
移民通讯员
卡米洛·蒙托亚-加尔韦斯是哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的移民通讯员，其报道见于多个节目和平台，包括全国广播节目、CBS News 24小时新闻频道、CBSNews.com以及该机构的社交媒体账号。
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乔·沃尔什
政治高级编辑
乔·沃尔什是哥伦比亚广播公司新闻数字政治板块的高级编辑。此前他曾为《福布斯》报道突发新闻，并在波士顿地方新闻机构任职。
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代理司法部长托德·布兰奇拒绝了哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的采访请求，否认美国司法部正在针对前总统特朗普的对手展开报复行动，并驳斥了前总统巴拉克·奥巴马的批评——但他同时辩称，特朗普拥有监督该机构的广泛权力。
自上月出任司法部副部长后接任部长一职的布兰奇，因对特朗普的政敌提起刑事指控而数月来饱受审视，这些政敌包括前联邦调查局局长詹姆斯·科米和纽约州总检察长莉蒂夏·詹姆斯。批评人士还指出，历来与白宫保持距离的司法部，正丧失其作为非政治机构的传统声誉。
周三在凤凰城接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访时，布兰奇称有关其部门正开展报复行动的指控“完全虚假”，并表示检察官们“正在履行职责”，“再次让美国变得安全”。
他提到最新对科米的起诉，指控这位前联邦调查局局长发布一张排列成“86 47”数字的贝壳照片，威胁第47任总统。布兰奇坚称这只是司法部每年审理的数千起案件之一，并称该案是由“当地检察官”和“当地执法人员”主导的。
“我甚至不知道他们的名字，”布兰奇在谈及北卡罗来纳州的联邦检察官时说道。
奥巴马于周二加入批评者行列，他在深夜脱口秀主持人斯蒂芬·科伯特的节目中表示，他对“我们司法系统的政治化”以及“掌权者开始利用这一点打击政治对手”的风险感到担忧。他的讲话并未直接提及特朗普，但显然是针对这位总统。
“白宫不应能够指示司法部长随意起诉总统想要起诉的任何人，”奥巴马说道。
针对这位前总统的言论，布兰奇掏出袖珍版《宪法》，翻到阐述行政部门运作方式的章节。
“第二条规定：‘行政权属于美利坚合众国总统’，并未规定司法部长要置身事外，”布兰奇说道。
他指出自己是特朗普内阁的成员，并辩称总统有权在“所有领域”领导国家，包括刑事司法领域。
“如果特朗普总统打电话给我，说他认为我们国家存在某个问题，无论是毒品泛滥、非法移民，”他说道，“每个美国人都希望他这么做，他也理应这么做。”
科米和詹姆斯于去年秋季首次分别面临向国会撒谎和银行欺诈的指控，但这些案件因负责起诉的临时美国检察官任命无效而被驳回。就在这些指控提起前不久，特朗普在Truth社交平台发帖，敦促布兰奇的前任、司法部长帕姆·邦迪调查科米、詹姆斯以及特朗普长期以来的对手、民主党参议员亚当·希夫。
当被问及总统是否会致电并指示他起诉特定个人时，布兰奇表示不会讨论他与特朗普的对话。
“但请放心，他有更好、更重要的大事要处理，不会操心我是否在履行职责，”布兰奇说道。“我每天早上醒来都问心无愧。我们在司法部所做的一切，完全都是我们应该做的事。”
布兰奇还称民主党人关于特朗普正在起诉其对手的指控“极为虚伪”。他指出特朗普在上年重返总统职位之前，曾面临纽约州、佐治亚州州检察官以及联邦特别检察官提起的一系列刑事指控。布兰奇曾在其中部分案件中担任特朗普的辩护律师。
“我欢迎批评，放马过来。但如果你住在玻璃房子里，就不该扔石头，”他说道。
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Blanche calls Obama’s concerns about DOJ targeting Trump’s critics “extraordinarily rich”
2026-05-06 18:54 EDT / CBS News
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche denied to CBS News that the Justice Department is engaging in a retribution campaign against President Trump’s adversaries, pushing back on criticism from former President Barack Obama — but he argued Mr. Trump has vast power to oversee the agency.
The Justice Department — which Blanche has led since last month after serving as second-in-command — has faced months of scrutiny for bringing criminal charges against Trump foes, including former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. Critics also argue the department, which has historically maintained an arms-length relationship with the White House, is losing its traditional reputation as an apolitical agency.
In an interview with CBS News in Phoenix Wednesday, Blanche called allegations that his department is leading a retribution campaign “simply false,” saying prosecutors are “doing our jobs” and “making America safe again.”
He said the latest Comey indictment, which accused the former FBI director of threatening the 47th president by posting a photo of seashells arranged to form the numbers “86 47,” was just one of the thousands of cases brought by the Justice Department every year. He insisted the case was spearheaded by “local prosecutors” and “local agents.”
“I don’t even know their names,” Blanche said of the North Carolina-based federal prosecutors.
Obama joined the chorus of critics on Tuesday, telling late-night host Stephen Colbert that he’s concerned about “the politicization of our justice system” and the risk that “whoever is in charge of the government starts using that to go after their political enemies.” His remarks did not mention Mr. Trump personally but appeared to be directed at the president.
“The White House shouldn’t be able to direct the attorney general to go around prosecuting whoever the president wants to prosecute,” Obama said.
In response to the former president’s comments, Blanche pulled out a pocket-sized copy of the Constitution and flipped to the part that lays out how the executive branch works.
“Article Two says, ‘the executive power shall be vested in the President of the United States of America.’ It does not say that the Attorney General stands off to the side,” Blanche said.
He noted that he is a member of Mr. Trump’s Cabinet, and argued the president has the right to lead the country “in all areas,” including on criminal justice.
“To the extent that President Trump calls me and says that he thinks that we have a problem in this country, whether it’s the scourge of drugs, illegal immigration,” he said, “every American wants him to do that, and he should.”
Comey and James were first indicted last fall on charges of lying to Congress and bank fraud, respectively, but their cases were tossed out on the grounds that the interim U.S. attorney who led the prosecutions was invalidly appointed. Shortly before those charges were brought, Mr. Trump penned a Truth Social post urging Blanche’s predecessor, Attorney General Pam Bondi, to look into Comey, James and a third longtime Trump foil, Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff.
Asked whether the president is calling him and directing him to prosecute certain individuals, Blanche said he would not discuss his conversations with Mr. Trump.
“But rest assured, he has much better, bigger and important things to do than to worry about me doing my job,” said Blanche. “And I wake up with a very clean conscience every morning. We are absolutely doing nothing but what we should be doing at the Department of Justice.”
Blanche also called allegations from Democrats that Mr. Trump is prosecuting his opponents “extraordinarily rich.” He pointed to the raft of criminal charges that Mr. Trump faced before returning to office last year, brought by state prosecutors in New York and Georgia and a federal special counsel. Blanche served as Mr. Trump’s defense attorney in some of those cases.
“So I welcome criticism. Let’s go. But if you’re sitting in a glass house, you ought not throw stones,” he said.
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