Todd Blanche’s Confirmation Is Being Held Up By… Todd Blanche
The senators want DOJ to eliminate a $1.7 billion fund and narrow Trump audit protections before advancing Todd Blanche's nomination.
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Todd Blanche’s Confirmation Is Being Held Up By… Todd Blanche
Todd Blanche has spent the better part of his confirmation process insisting that the $1.8 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund — otherwise known as the Trump slush fun — is dead. He said so under sworn testimony. He privately told Senators Durbin and Blumenthal it was “a mistake” …and then called them liars in his written responses when they said so publicly. He told Judge Brinkema’s court it wasn’t going forward, but refused to put that in writing …
Republicans Senators Are Turning Todd Blanche’s Confirmation Fight Into an Anti-Abortion Free-For-All
Todd Blanche, President Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee, wants a promotion. But thanks to his involvement in the $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, his mismanagement of the Epstein files while serving as a senior Justice Department official, and so on, he also has a problem on his hands: Any one of a dozen Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee could effectively deny Blanche the job by voting no. Thus, ahead of Thursday’s …
Ex-Trump aide issues chilling warning to new 'chief enabler' Todd Blanche
President Donald Trump's nominee for the attorney general post isn't merely a "yes-man," he's one who is willing to compromise his own profession and reputation to be a "yes-man." At least, that's what former Department of Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor wrote in his column Tuesday. Taylor spent the first Trump administration trying to sound the alarm from inside the White House, writing a column and then a book under the "Anonymou…
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