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Posted on 06/04/2026 3:53:34 AM PDT by DFG
President Trump announced Wednesday evening that he plans to nominate Todd Blanche, his onetime personal lawyer, to serve as attorney general.
Blanche has been the acting head of the Justice Department since April 2, when Trump elevated him from his deputy attorney general post after firing Pam Bondi.
White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino shared a video on X of Trump making the announcement during a private dinner in the Rose Garden.
“Tomorrow I’m instructing Dan and everybody else that’s involved in that very complicated process, which is gonna go I think very quickly, that we are going to make [Blanche] permanent attorney general,” Trump said.
Blanche could have served in an acting capacity for 210 days after being named acting AG, giving Trump until late October to decide his future in the Justice Department.
The 51-year-old Colorado native will need to be confirmed by the Senate, where Republicans hold a 53-47 majority, to formally replace Bondi as AG
In an interview with “Pod Force One” Tuesday, Trump appeared satisfied with Blanche’s performance as acting AG, during which he’s overseen a sweeping crackdown on federal benefit fraud and signed off on the creation of a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund that he has since said the department will not move forward with following bipartisian backlash.
“I wanted to see how he’s received … and he’s done a very good job,” Trump told Post columnist Miranda Devine of Blanche.
In his first weeks as acting AG, Blanche secured the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey on charges of threatening to kill the president. Critics claimed the indictment was based on a politically charged reading of an innocuous Instagram photo of shells arranged on a beach to read “86 47”.
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Comey was soooo deliberate with the stones. He knew he would get away with it. I wonder if his wife was really with him.....AND if so...who else was with them.
No matter....Just disrupting Comey's life makes me happy.
Tillis will grandstand.
But both Tillis and Cornyn will be gone from Judiciary soon.
Boy…Alex Jones is really going to be angry…🤬
An interesting back door way to get appointed. He got past the first set of hearings for the deputy job, he’s #1 now so they can’t really deny him.
Well he’s very good.
But will he arrest anyone?
What is with the scare quote around ‘permanent’? It could not be more clear what the President meant.
“Leader” Thune has 2 people who don’t have the confidence of their constituents to sit on committees with nothing to lose. Thune isn’t that dumb. It’s his play to stop Trump without being held responsible. Sorry folks, it would be better for Trump to have an overtly and overly antagonistic Senate so he’ll do battle. Such as it is all Trump ever says about the Senate is how great they’re doing (because he wants to be able to work with them) but what is actually getting accomplished as a result of having the Senate. All I would need to go ALL in for the Democrats would be a that they don’t impeach Trump. That’s the only thing the Repukes won’t do that the Democrats will spend 2 years doing.
Todd Blank. Pathetic choice.
WHERE ARE THE CONVICTIONS!?!?!?!?
He already has.
The GOP turncoats in the Senate will not allow him to become AG.
I do not trust Blance. He was a rat just a few years ago. He has done some high profile low substance things just to make this happen. He knows the Comey charges are going to die and that is just one example. I think he is a mole.
Comey?
We'll get him same as we just got Bolton.
From X:
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 BREAKING: JOHN BOLTON PLEADS GUILTY TO A FELONY
FAFO!!!
The Trump DOJ has SECURED a guilty plea from disgraced National Security Advisor Bolton on illegally mishandling national security and classified documents.
Now THROW HIM IN PRISON! 🔥
“John Bolton will agree to plea guilty.”
He's accused of taking notes of documents/briefings and EMAILING THEM to himself, “as if it were a diary entry,” then printing them out and keeping them after he was fired — CNN
He then wrote a memoir, and his home was raided by the feds, with “secret” info found.
CNN says it's a FELONY.
Blanche was a rat just a few years ago during the time Justice was going after Trump. Yes Trump was a Dem many years ago and it was different world. I just do not trust Blanche
Grok.
No — the opposite. Blanche became one of Trump's defense attorneys starting around 2023–2024, including leading his defense in the Manhattan hush-money criminal trial (among other cases). He represented Trump after or around the time he was still a registered Democrat, and he has publicly defended Trump against what he and Trump called politically motivated prosecutions.
OK, well I hope you are right about this guy.
YES!!!!
I hope he is a ruthless SOB as Attorney General. A real shark for the good guys.
Hey. I can hope.
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