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🚨Trump DOJ COLLAPSES as NO ONE SHOWS UP!!

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January 31, 2026 · 15 min · 2,382 words · 24 timestamped sections

This is the full, timestamped transcript of "🚨Trump DOJ COLLAPSES as NO ONE SHOWS UP!!", an episode of MeidasTouch published January 31, 2026 (15 min, about 2,382 words). It mentions 12 people, works and ideas, including Department of Justice, Harry Litman, Don Lemon, Trump regime, Epstein file.

What this episode is about

Federal prosecutors and FBI agents across the U.S. are facing a wave of potential resignations due to dissatisfaction with the Department of Justice's handling of key cases and internal controversies, leading to concerns about the significant loss of personnel within the DOJ. This unrest is highlighted by the lack of response from Todd Blanch, Deputy AG and former attorney for Donald Trump, when questioned about the situation, raising questions about the future stability and integrity of the agency.

Key takeaways

The DOJ’s exodus reflects a crisis of confidence—when prosecutors can’t even stay, who’s left to uphold justice?
Mass resignations at the DOJ highlight a toxic culture; a disheartened workforce makes for a dismal legal landscape.
Even a judge noted unprecedented court order violations—a telling sign DOJ’s credibility is leaking like a rusty bucket.
From revered institution to sinking ship, the DOJ's reputation now has job seekers wary of career-staining cases.
With each resignation, the DOJ's ghost town vibe grows—could the pursuit of justice become an endangered species?

Who speaks in this episode?

Ben Meiselas (Host) · 9 min speaking
Harry Litman (Guest) · 6 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

0:00 – 3:00: Department of Justice, Don Lemon, Kate Blanch, Harry Litman
3:00 – 6:00: Department of Justice, Harry Litman, Trump regime
6:00 – 9:00: Don Lemon, Harry Litman, Trump regime, Georgia Fort
9:00 – 12:00: Department of Justice, Watergate
12:00 – 15:00: Department of Justice, Epstein file, Talking Feds

Notable quotes from "🚨Trump DOJ COLLAPSES as NO ONE SHOWS UP!!"

But now since the Department of Justice's disgusting handling of things like the Epstein files and the ongoing cover up, the way they've weaponized it and gone after people like.
about Department of Justice · at 0:41
You have continuing people saying that they're going to be leaving these entities. I want to bring in Harry Litman from the Talking Feds YouTube channel, Talking Feds Substack, and Talking Feds podcast.
about Harry Litman · at 2:40
They're not going anywhere. Instead, they arrest him at 11:00 at night, cuff him, take him to jail, make him stay overnight. That's just a gratuitous kick in the teeth. And the very charges.
about Don Lemon · at 7:16
Sat and a couple of them in the Saturday night massacre in Watergate, the big threat in 2000 that made Trump back down from his DOJ scheme.
about Watergate · at 10:26

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

Harry Litman — Person · Main guest / referenced expert · 4 mentions · first at 2:48
Brought on as a former DOJ prosecutor and host of Talking Feds to analyze DOJ dysfunction and resignations, and to contextualize alleged politicized prosecutions.
Don Lemon — Person · Referenced public figure / alleged target of DOJ action · 4 mentions · first at 0:51
Cited as an example of alleged DOJ weaponization: discussed as being arrested/charged in a manner the speakers characterize as punitive and atypical for a high-profile figure.
Kate Blanch — Person · Referenced government official (press conference subject) · 2 mentions · first at 1:23
Presented as the DOJ leadership figure who declines to comment on resignations; framed as emblematic of the administration's posture toward DOJ staffing crisis.
And so at a press conference on Friday, Todd Blanch, Donald Trump's former criminal defense attorney turned number two at the Department of Justice, he's the deputy AG. He was asked, So, what do you make about already the.
Georgia Fort — Person · Referenced journalist / alleged subject of surveillance · 2 mentions · first at 2:05
Used as an example of alleged intimidation: described as an award-winning journalist whose home was allegedly surveilled by DEA agents after reporting activity at a church in St. Paul.
No answer. No answer. a typical Trumpian Dodd Blanch answer. And meanwhile, they had DEA agents stalking the home of Georgia Fort, a awardwinning journalist with the National…
Renee Mlin Good — Person · Referenced individual (victim in narrative) · 2 mentions · first at 1:05
Central to an example Litman gives about alleged pressure on prosecutors regarding what to investigate; used to illustrate politicization and resulting resignations.
Office, but the most heralded prosecutor, he left when they were trying to, push him to say, Well, don't look into Renee Good's murder. You should, however, look into the widow…
Alex Prety — Person · Referenced individual (victim in narrative) · 1 mention · first at 1:03
Mentioned in connection with a 'postmurder' context that the speakers cite as part of DOJ mishandling/cover-up claims and morale collapse.
Minneapolis Department of Justice, federal prosecutor's office does not want to touch. the way they've responded postmurder of Alex Prey and Renee Nicole Good. People who were…

Companies & orgs

Department of Justice — Company · Business focus · 8 mentions · first at 0:16
Central to the discussion about mass resignations and internal turmoil within the DOJ and FBI.
National Association of Black Journalists — Company · Case study · 1 mention · first at 2:14
Mentioned in the context of DEA agents stalking a journalist affiliated with the organization.
Dodd Blanch answer. And meanwhile, they had DEA agents stalking the home of Georgia Fort, a awardwinning journalist with the National Association of Black Journalists who was with Don Lemon videotaping at that church in St. Paul.

Concepts & topics

Trump regime — Concept · Key argument · 2 mentions · first at 3:01
Referenced as the period when the DOJ started down a controversial path, leading to current issues.
Really, when the Trump regime's DOJ started down this path, which we all expected after the election, they were going to do it. You and I have made covering this mass exodus a priority. As.
Epstein file — Concept · Core topic · 2 mentions · first at 0:46
Mentioned as part of the DOJ's controversial handling, contributing to the mass resignations.
But now since the Department of Justice's disgusting handling of things like the Epstein files and the ongoing cover up, the way they've weaponized it and gone after people like.

Places & events

Watergate — Event · Referenced work · 1 mention · first at 10:27
Historical event mentioned to compare current DOJ issues with past resignations.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 Federal prosecutors in Minneapolis and across this country are now threatening mass resignations within the DOJ and also FBI agents are threatening mass resignations. One question I have is how many more people practically can resign because the Department of Justice and the FBI have lost so many people, so many senior leaders, mid-level leaders and workers there in general from staffers to senior attorneys to parallegals uh to top agents across the board. We've already seen a mass exodus and I'm talking thousands of agents, thousands of lawyers have already left.

0:41 But now since the Department of Justice's disgusting handling of things like the Epstein files and the ongoing cover up, uh the way they've uh weaponized it and gone after people like Don Lemon, which the Los Angeles uh DOJ office doesn't want to touch, the Minneapolis uh Department of Justice, federal prosecutor's office does not want to touch. the way they've responded postmurder of Alex Prey and Renee Nicole Good. People who were just trying to cling on because they really needed the job and they were just hoping they could keep their heads down. They're really saying at this point, we can't do it.

1:20 And so at a press conference on Friday, Todd Blanch, Donald Trump's former criminal defense attorney turned number two at the Department of Justice, he's the deputy AG. He was asked, "So, what do you make about already the significant resignations within the federal prosecutor's office in Minneapolis, the Civil Rights Division in DC, and the threats of additional mass resignations? Let's watch Todd Blanch's response." Let's play it. The same kind of investigation.

1:51 Do you have comment on the career prosecutors that are resigning in Minneapolis?

1:58 No answer. No answer. a typical Trumpian Dodd Blanch answer. And meanwhile, they had DEA agents stalking the home of Georgia Fort, a awardwinning journalist with the uh National Association of Black Journalists who was with Don Lemon videotaping at that church in St. Paul. I mean, look at what it looked like outside of her house. She thought she was going to be uh kidnapped by these individuals and with everything going on, she like many others didn't even believe they had a legitimate warrant uh to even be there in the first place. Um you have uh continuing continuing uh uh uh people saying that they're going to be leaving these entities. I want to bring in Harry Litman from the Talking Feds YouTube channel, Talking Feds Substack, and Talking Feds podcast.

2:54 Harry, it's great to see you. You and I now for the better part of a year, we've been covering these mass resignations. Really, when the Trump regime's DOJ started down this path, which we all expected after the election, they were going to do it. You and I have made covering this mass exodus a priority. As your shirt says, and our audio listeners can't hear it, XFed. And um you know, you were a former top federal prosecutor in the Western District of Pennsylvania. You were a top federal prosecutor in the Department of Justice, Maine Justice, Washington DC. So you speak to these former leaders at the DOJ and you're part of groups that have leaders, you know, and former leaders and senior people. The mood is beyond grim at this point at the DOJ. It is It is broken.

3:46 Like I I can't stress enough and it ties into this Harry then I'm going to turn it over to you which is I mean you have was it was was it George W. Bush appointed judge in Minneapolis and we saw another judge say this in Minneapolis as well that there have been more judicial orders that have been violated in January alone than than in the history of any agency he's seen in their entire existence in the month of January alone. And look, I'm a law professor. You teach law, Harry. It used to be something I would tell the law students. I would say working at the DOJ is one of the greatest things you can do out of law school. Has some of the best of the best students. It launches your career. I don't care if it was a Republican or Democratic administration.

4:41 Work at the DOJ because the career prosecutors, the system of bringing people up, it's it's like no other experience you could get. But now I warn people. I said if be very careful because you could have a stain on your career being attached to these cases no matter what type of judge you appear before a Bush, a Trump, a Obama, a Clinton, a Biden, because this current DOJ keeps violating court orders and they're dragging along the associates and the deputies who are there with them. Harry, break it all down for us.

5:16 man for unlike any other experience you can get that is so true now they are just transgressing every everything is completely topsyturvy and you have as you say the career folks who are still there they're the ones who have been hanging on and they are just um you know completely distraught how can we work for this everything they've done in the last 24 hours has been at over the vehement descent of everybody in the career ranks. I can hardly remember when that's ever happened. And I'll tell you what else I can hardly You're right. I've been in the field. I've been the US attorney. I've been at Maine justice.

6:01 Resignation is the ultimate kind of final gesture. Uh, and now it's not clear with all the the Trump histrionics that people appreciate it, but when you had that out of the criminal section of the civil rights division when they just uh disabled them with the good case and then Minnesota is already they were at half staff, but that understates it because they still have a civil division. They have hardly anybody left to prosecute, you know, drugs and fraud and public everything that the that the office does. The number one guy there, remember that he's number two in the office, but the most heralded prosecutor, he left when they were trying to, you know, push him to say, "Well, don't look into Renee Good's murder." You should, however, look into the widow and whether she's a domestic terrorist. You mentioned what they did with Georgia Fort. How about this with Don Lemon? You never ever um have

7:03 someone of his stature or credibility if you're going to have an indictment. I'll get to that in a moment. Um they are always permitted, as was for example Donald Trump, to surrender by a summon. They're not going anywhere. Instead, they arrest him at 11:00 at night, cuff him, take him to jail, make him stay overnight. That's just a gratuitous kick in the teeth. And the very charges Bondi made a big deal about claiming uh the in she's this is me and I gave the order and uh we will get I'm sure into the indictment itself maybe maybe when uh when he returns to Minnesota. But the whole thing is you know completely it's not just I disagree with your judgment.

7:54 It is totally against the grain of what DOJ practices culture have always stood for. And if you look at that indictment to give a quick preview, so much of it is standard journalistic activity. This this case is going to crash and burn. They probably don't even care because, you know, for Bondi, it's like a trifecta, right? She it's connected to the immigration in Minneapolis. It's score. It is um having to do with religious practice, the terrible transgression of the rights of people who were in church, notwithstanding the long um standing tradition of protests in just that setting. Score and biggest score for for uh her and Donald Trump, one of the real enemies who Trump, you know, can't despise Don Lemon. So everybody told her, "Don't go there.

8:44 Don't go there. We would never go there." She could care less. She overrules everyone and they come in and, you know, treat him like a a street criminal who's going to flee. These guys are just beyond uh any sort of shame. And it's like now, you know, it's a cesspool, as you say, then it's just getting deeper and broader. And you know this they already had in some of their reprisal prosecutions uh say what you know what they're threatening um in Walls and Fry in Minnesota and Powell. They're trying to basically enact policy by um making trouble for um people who oppose them.

9:31 And now this the way this is a case that I'm here to tell you would never have been greenlighted by any Department of Justice going back, you know, to my to my lifetime. And what more proof do you need than everyone says don't do it and and Bondi does it and takes pride in it. So, you know, we're really talking about a a DOJ that's been completely set on its ear. And yeah, even the people who have hung in there, they thought maybe they were doing good. They really needed the job. They loved some aspects of the work where they were being let alone.

10:10 They just can't take it anymore. And you know, resignations, I'll just close as I open. That's the loudest kind of protest a professional prosecutor can make. You hear you heard about them over, you know, history with the threats in the Sat and and a couple of them in the Saturday night massacre in Watergate, the big threat in in 2000 that made Trump back down from his DOJ scheme. They don't really happen much at all and they're just, you know, and in specifically done in protest for what this crowd is doing within the culture of DOJ. It's just apocalyptic.

10:51 Apocalyptic is putting it lightly. And apocalyptic isn't putting it lightly. I can't I I thought about for a while. I couldn't go deeper than apocalyptic, Ben. But if you have something that even gets more, go for it.

11:05 Well, I then I'll stick with then I'll stick with apocalyptic. All right. Um, you know, but the reality is is

11:12 who's even working at the DOJ anymore? You know, and I don't say this in a I'm not trying to be facitious here is that who who are the people working here like all the people who I knew who were smart lawyers like they're gone and I'm just trying to think of the people like literally doing the dayto-day work there and you know you're seeing in these cases again deadlines missed declarations not being followed the the basic blocking and tackling of moving a case forward the DOJ J doesn't have the resources for in in the SDNY, for example, there's a big sex trafficking trial with these defendants who are these real estate brothers from Miami and they're set to go to trial and the DOJ SDNY is complaining to the judge that they don't have the resources right now to prosecute the two individuals who have been accused of very serious things because they say they've been so focused on going through the Epstein files that

12:14 they're not prepared. And the federal judge is like, "What do you what do you mean you're not prepared? You're you're the SDNY. What do you mean you're not ready to go to trial?" And then the defense attorneys, who are usually the ones who are trying to say, "Hey, we need more time." The defense attorneys are saying, "Judge, we need to go. What? Let's let's do this trial. What are we talking about?" It's such a It's such a strange thing to see. And I'm not even the corruption, the apocalyptic stuff. Yes. Then just the basic like the deadline is this. They miss it. You you have to file by this date. You miss it.

12:50 Here's how you file a declaration. They don't know how to file the declaration. So it's stuff like that. Harry.

12:55 Yeah. And it's a deeper impact. Ben, you know, we've talked about the erosion of um credibility and faith on by on the part of judges and I think now the public about the DOJ and how that has an impact ultimately on us and public safety. You want to talk about an impact on public safety? The feds still do only a small slice of crime, but they're very important crimes. They don't have the the people there, the bas, you know, the basic uh just benchwarmers or whatever. They can't get they're having trouble finding even qualified people as you've suggested who want to go in there.

13:34 Minnesota now they're they're you know in a g probably does 300 cases say a year. They can't do a fraction of that now. And what does that mean for who is acting with impunity in Minnesota? what the FBI is not investigating what's on the street victimizing the public in a way there would never be in just a modestly functional department of justice. This is a abject breakdown and for the most rank politicized nasty reasons that are the antithesis. I don't know if this will do you better than apocalyptic but it is the everything about this is the antithesis of justice without fear or favor. It's all about how can we screw Trump's enemies and further his agenda that's in Fulton County as well in lie of doing other things. People leave, people are reassigned to it and there is a total gap in the uh public safety and justice function of the department of justice as it used to be called. Everybody, make

14:43 sure you hit subscribe here, but more importantly, subscribe to the Talking Feds YouTube channel, the Talking Feds Substack, and the Talking Feds podcast. Thanks Harry.

14:53 Hey, thanks, man. Love this video. Support independent media, and unlock exclusive content, add free videos, and custom emojis by becoming a paid member of our YouTube channel today. You can also gift memberships to others. Let's keep growing together.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "🚨Trump DOJ COLLAPSES as NO ONE SHOWS UP!!"?

Ben Meiselas (Host), Harry Litman (Guest).

What is "🚨Trump DOJ COLLAPSES as NO ONE SHOWS UP!!" about?

What is mentioned in this MeidasTouch episode?

12 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Department of Justice, Harry Litman, Don Lemon, Trump regime, Epstein file, Kate Blanch. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "🚨Trump DOJ COLLAPSES as NO ONE SHOWS UP!!"?

The episode runs 15 min; the transcript is about 2,382 words in 24 timestamped sections.

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