| GOP insiders tear apart Todd Blanche for evaporating DOJ For two people who once occupied high rungs of the Republican Party's communications ladder the admission must have been difficult: Republicans have hung themselves. Former Republican communications director Doug Heye and GOP communications director Tara Setmayer could muster no strength Friday night on CNN to defend the party's capitulation to President Donald Trump in his second term. Both blamed the party for Trump's most Friday move to personally direct the Department of Justic to insert itself in Alaskan elections if Republicans lose. |