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Trump Says He Plans to Nominate Blanche for Attorney General
Todd Blanche has been serving as the acting attorney general. A formal nomination to the post would be the president’s latest move to place loyalists in top government jobs.
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Trump says he will nominate Todd Blanche as attorney general
President Trump will formally nominate acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to lead the Justice Department, with the paperwork expected Thursday.Why it matters: Confirmation would keep the Justice Department in the hands of Trump's former criminal defense attorney, who has used his tenure to fight judges, indict former FBI director James Comey and dismiss critics of the department's handling of the Epstein files.The latest: The president revealed the pick in a video that deputy White House chief of staff Dan Scavino posted to X late Wednesday. "We are going to make him permanent attorney general," Trump said in the video, vowing to start the process the next day.The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The intrigue: Trump is elevating Blanche days after his most public setback. The acting AG spent weeks defending a nearly $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund, a taxpayer payout to people who say they were wrongly targeted by the government. It was born of the DOJ's settlement of Trump's own lawsuit against the IRS.After Senate Republicans balked, especially at the prospect of payouts to Jan. 6 rioters, he killed the fund Tuesday.Still, Blanche said the department will keep the settlement's provisions prohibiting the IRS from auditing Trump's past returns.Trump has demurred, continuing to call the fund a "beautiful thing" to CNN and saying he doesn't know if it's dead.Catch up quick: Blanche was Trump's criminal defense attorney, who steered him through his 2024 hush money conviction and the two federal cases brought by special counsel Jack Smith that never reached trial. He's run the DOJ on an acting basis since Trump pushed out Pam Bondi in April, frustrated she hadn't delivered prosecutions of his enemies, Axios previously reported.As deputy attorney general, Blanche had publicly declared a "war" on judges and state bar associations.What's next: Blanche cleared the Senate as deputy AG last year 52-46, on a party line vote.That was before the revolt over the fund, and before Trump spent the primary season ending the careers of Republicans he deemed insufficiently loyal.
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NBC News Politics
Trump to Tap Acting AG Todd Blanche to Lead DOJ Permanently
President Donald Trump is making changes at the Justice Department, nominating acting attorney general Todd Blanche as its permanent director. Blanche replaced Pam Bondi after her firing and since then has notably investigated several of Trump’s perceived enemies.
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Trump says he’ll nominate Blanche as attorney general
President Trump on Wednesday evening signaled he will name acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to officially serve as the nation’s top prosecutor. During a dinner at the White House, the president said that he will instruct Dan Scavino, the director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office, and other aides to nominate Blanche to the…
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