Government
Personal visit declaredAttend the rally as a private attorney general
The attorney general's office will be treating this rally as personal time.
- Executive owner
- Donald J. Trump / Attorney General Todd Blanche
- Status
- Personal visit declared
- Due
- Before November 3
- Paying for it
- Campaign reimbursed the travel
ACTIVITY
UpdatedScheduling booked the attorney general as a private citizen.
Nobody puts ME in a little Private-Person Box for two hours, I'm still ME! Change the Badge if the Lawyers love it, nobody in that Crowd is checking Lanyards!
Ethics asked how the office would be kept separate from the rally. Events offered a different badge.
Communications moved praise for the candidate into the public-safety column.
Right Account pays, please! No whole Hearing about one Airplane Seat.
The travel was reimbursed. The appearance is harder to separate.
She can go to Rallies, I go to RALLIES!!
PUBLIC RECORD
In a September 17 statement to AP, DOJ defended Blanche’s political-event appearances as personal, ethics-cleared and travel-reimbursed. Public Citizen filed a complaint over one appearance. Blanche denies endorsing candidates; the reporting does not establish a legal violation.