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.
Everyone will party for a few days, but then in that time the coup of the US Government will be completed by the technofascists like Thiel and his puppet Vance, Yarvin, Andreeson, Musk, and others. A lot of this info is presented in audio format in a Behind the Bastards episode on venture capital extremism, another episode on Peter Thiel, and another on Curtis Yarvin, Robert Evans explains more here, and in video format here