Todd Blanche, Lawfare, and 633,000 Hacked Voter Files: Jim Pfaff on The Dan Carroll Show | Aug 6, 2026
Published: August 6, 2026
Network: The Dan Carroll Show
Analysis: Conservative Caucus President Jim Pfaff
The Todd Blanche confirmation hearing — and Senator Bill Cassidy’s suggestion that the acting attorney general might practice “lawfare” for President Trump — led Jim Pfaff’s August 6 conversation with Dan Carroll on 700 WLW. The Conservative Caucus president turned Cassidy’s charge around: the senators fretting about lawfare now are largely the same ones who voted for Merrick Garland. The two also dug into a Just the News report that a hacker obtained 633,000 voter registration files from Arizona’s largest county in the days before the 2020 election — and that the Biden Justice Department declined to bring charges even after the FBI got a confession. From there: the Rand Paul committee’s vote recommending contempt of Congress proceedings against Anthony Fauci, and the ignored Biden ghostwriter tapes that Pfaff ties to a bigger question about the media itself.
Topics Covered
- The Todd Blanche Confirmation and Cassidy’s Lawfare Charge
- 633,000 Voter Files Hacked in Arizona — and No Charges
- Fauci: A Contempt Vote and the Fifth, 111 Times
- The Biden Tapes and Project Mockingbird
- Key Takeaways
The Todd Blanche Confirmation and Cassidy’s Lawfare Charge
Carroll opened with the confirmation hearing for acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and a quote Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana gave to Just the News: “I’ve got to be convinced that he is an attorney general who just happens to have once been President Trump’s personal attorney, as opposed to Trump’s personal attorney who is now, uh, the attorney general.” Cassidy said he is “very concerned about so-called lawfare”. Carroll’s challenge: he would defy the senator to provide a single example of anyone investigated or prosecuted by this administration’s Justice Department over a political or personal vendetta.
Pfaff’s answer went straight at the messenger. Which form of lawfare is Cassidy most concerned with — what he perceives with Todd Blanche, or his “buddy” Merrick Garland, whom Cassidy voted to confirm as attorney general?
“Bill Cassidy is one of the most obscene examples of the trash that we sometimes get through our electoral process in Congress.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus
Drawing on his eight years working on Capitol Hill, Pfaff laid out what an attorney general actually is. Article 2, Section 1 gives the executive power to the president — making the president, not the attorney general, the chief law enforcement officer. So there is inherently something political in the job: the attorney general serves the president in his duties, and must also be able to run the office, go after crime and wrongdoing, and direct a staff that will do the same. By that standard, Pfaff said, the acting attorney general “clearly fits that bill” — while Garland’s record on the appellate bench gave every reason to suspect he would commit the lawfare “which he actually did.” Since taking over the office Pam Bondi formerly occupied, Blanche has cleaned up the loose ends she left behind, with convictions and indictments Pfaff called appropriate — and no misstep either man could point to.
The $1.8 Billion Concession
The one thing Cassidy — and committee members John Cornyn and Tom Tillis — are “in a huff about,” Pfaff explained, is a proposed $1.8 billion fund to take care of the people treated with lawfare by Merrick Garland and Joe Biden. Before the nomination, the senators made a deal with Blanche not to do it. Trump and Blanche compromised — “fine, we won’t do that” — though Pfaff thinks the fund is something that needs to be done, because fixing lawfare is exactly what Blanche is coming in to do.
“So listen, that Todd Blanche is the guy for me. I don’t know that he’s gonna be absolutely everything that I want, but he’s pretty darn close so far.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus
633,000 Voter Files Hacked in Arizona — and No Charges
Carroll then read from another Just the News story by John Solomon’s outlet: Arizona’s largest county suffered a significant breach of its election data in the days before the 2020 presidential election. A hacker foiled security and obtained 633,000 voter registration files — and the Biden Justice Department and local prosecutors declined to bring charges even after the FBI got the suspect to confess. The Biden DOJ and FBI knew about it, refused to prosecute, and kept the information out of the sight of the American people.
“Just, Jim, when I look at the Biden administration, the thoroughness of the corruption never ceases to amaze me. And we learn more and more about it the farther we get away from it.”
— Dan Carroll, The Dan Carroll Show
How much coverage did the story get that day? Nothing, the two agreed — the narrative remains “2020 election, pure as the wind-driven snow.” Pfaff said he was close to puking when Chris Krebs, then running CISA, called it the most secure election in American history; by definition it was not, and even short of concluding it was rigged, “it still was a crappy election.” Carroll added the obvious contradiction: a hacker got all this voter information after years of assurances that these machines were not online and not available to hackers.
For Pfaff, the story loops directly back to the confirmation fight — and to a Republican Senate that keeps failing its own voters. A Republican Senate unwilling to look at a news item like this one and reconsider its objections to Blanche is not reaching that conclusion by accident: “Because they’re just as much deep staters as anyone else.”
“it’s the most obscene thing for those of us who supported Donald Trump, who wanted our country taken back, to look at these stinking idiot senators who only have their own interests in mind and frankly are corrupt in some cases.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus
Cassidy got a second mention here: a doctor, in Pfaff’s telling “totally corrupt when it comes to the medical industry” — a man who has allowed the worst of it through the FDA and the regulatory agencies.
Fauci: A Contempt Vote and the Fifth, 111 Times
Earlier that day, the committee headed by Rand Paul voted to recommend that the DOJ proceed with contempt of Congress charges against Anthony Fauci — the fight we covered when Fauci pleaded the Fifth before Congress. Carroll skipped the legal weeds — the pardon, whether pleading the Fifth was even available to him — and asked the gut question: will there be any reckoning at all for Anthony Fauci in this life?
“who he is after pleading the Fifth 111 times— that is what his legacy is”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus
To a degree, Pfaff argued, the reckoning has already happened: whatever contingent still thinks Fauci is the hero they made him out to be, his reputation is done. But time behind bars? His gut says no — and the biggest reason is bigger than Fauci.
“we’ve so twisted and tortured what we do in justice right now that I don’t know how recoverable it is just yet”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus
America has been close to the gold standard of justice for most of its history, Pfaff said — with real failures, Jim Crow among them — but the system today lacks what it would take to convict a bureaucrat who worked up technicalities to cover conduct like gain-of-function research done against the law. The accountability that may actually land: Ralph Baric, who was with EcoHealth Alliance, “maybe he’s at risk” — along with some of Fauci’s underlings at NIAID. That may be the best we get, and Pfaff thinks the country needs at least that much to sort through what happened. On the origin, he was categorical: the virus came from the lab, China flew people out of the country but not into it from Wuhan, and — as he has said since spring of 2020 — “They knew exactly what was going on and they wanted to affect the presidential election.” Fauci, meanwhile, was the highest-paid employee in the federal government.
The Biden Tapes and Project Mockingbird
In the segment’s final minutes, Carroll named the biggest beneficiary of the crowded news cycle: Joe Biden. Right before the Fauci story broke, the tapes of Biden talking with his ghostwriter about the classified documents came out — and received zero coverage. His analogy: Chappaquiddick happened to be the same day Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.
Pfaff reached for a different precedent — Project Mockingbird, the CIA project to get into the news media back when that meant just the three major networks. If the media won’t touch one of the biggest stories there ever was, he asked, how much of that project is continuing, and how many of those people are on the payroll? The tapes themselves, he said, make Special Counsel Robert Herr’s line — that Biden probably wouldn’t make it through the prosecutorial process — “maybe the understatement of the year.”
“What’s been happening since Donald Trump got elected president and a little bit before, it is unprecedented. We’ve had scandals, but nothing on this par.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus
In a sense — “maybe not precisely, but in a sense” — Pfaff called Biden a Manchurian candidate. And while China probably had a significant factor in 2020, the harder discovery is closer to home: “we look in the mirror and the enemy is us.”
“now we know for a fact based on what John Solomon’s talking about and others that we actually have had our CIA and FBI meddling in our elections”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus
His closing verdict on the whole affair: “it’s just a crime of the century, it really is.”
Key Takeaways
- Cassidy’s lawfare charge cuts the wrong way – The senator questioning Todd Blanche over “so-called lawfare” is the same Bill Cassidy who voted to confirm Merrick Garland, whom Pfaff calls one of the greatest lawfare attorneys general ever.
- The attorney general works for the president – Article 2, Section 1 gives the executive power to the president, making him the chief law enforcement officer; Pfaff says Blanche fits the job’s two real tests — serving the president and running the office.
- A $1.8 billion deal preceded the nomination – Cassidy, Cornyn, and Tillis got Blanche to agree not to pursue a proposed $1.8 billion fund for the victims of Garland-Biden lawfare — a fund Pfaff argues should exist.
- 633,000 voter files, zero charges – A hacker breached Arizona’s largest county days before the 2020 election and confessed to the FBI; the Biden DOJ and local prosecutors declined to prosecute, and the story drew no coverage.
- Fauci’s reckoning is reputational, not criminal – After a Rand Paul committee vote recommending contempt charges, Pfaff’s gut says no jail: pleading the Fifth 111 times is the legacy, and any prosecutions may land on Ralph Baric and NIAID underlings instead.
- The Biden tapes vanished from coverage – The ghostwriter tapes on classified documents got zero coverage, which Pfaff says revives the Project Mockingbird question — how many in the media are on the payroll?
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Originally broadcast Aug 6, 2026 on The Dan Carroll Show.
Peter J. Thomas is a veteran conservative political strategist and seasoned policy expert dedicated to upholding the principles of the Constitution and democracy. As a founder and the chairman of the Conservative Caucus, he has played a pivotal role in promoting and shaping the conservative agenda across the nation for over half a century.