Attorney general pick joined Trump’s legal team in 2023 – there seems little doubt he would be prepared to carry out the president’s wishes

Todd Blanche’s nomination to be permanently made the attorney general marks the apex of a gamble from a man who bet everything on representing Donald Trump and became one of his most steadfast and punishing enforcers.

Trump announced the news at the White House on Monday. The nomination will require Senate confirmation to become permanent.

Blanche was a relatively unknown lawyer until he joined Trump’s legal team in March 2023, just after Trump was indicted for the first time in a New York state case involving a hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels. Blanche, a registered Democrat until a few years ago, resigned a lucrative partnership at a Wall Street law firm to represent the president, essentially betting everything on Trump at a moment when Trump faced mounting criminal charges and the walls seemed to be closing in.

  • NekoKoneko@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    “If he chooses to nominate somebody else and asks me to go do something else, I will say, ‘Thank you very much. I love you, sir.’ I don’t have any goals or aspirations beyond that.”

    So he has no goals or aspirations beyond doing what the president asks him, and makes sure we all can hear that he loves him (“sir”).

    So… a totally independent AG committed to upholding the rule of law then.

    It’s like the Mitchell & Web Lucentio sketch, but with the roles reversed. Todd, are you sure you wouldn’t like to just…have a sweaty tumble with Trump, and leave others to sort out the admin of…I dunno, upholding justice?