No to Todd Blanche (Part 2)
On June 16th I wrote that Todd Blanche was a “losing bet” to be attorney general. In a classic case of what goes around, the White House is begging two of the senators it targeted for defeat to help get the attorney general nominee confirmed. Both John Cornyn and Thom Tillis sit on the Judiciary committee and Trump needs their vote. All the democrats are going to vote against Blanche and Trump needs all the republicans to vote for him in order to get it out of committee. A single nay vote from a republican will kill the nomination. And I hope both Cornyn and Tillis will tell the president to go pound sand. Blanche should not be attorney general. Like so many of the “Justice” Department appointees, Blanche (like Pam Bondi) was one of Trumps personal lawyers. I do not begrudge him for fiercely defending his client when Trump was a private citizen.
Trump fired Pam (Blondie) Bondi for not pursuing his multitude of enemies aggressively enough. Blanche has gotten the hint and has zealously attempted to prosecute – or is it persecute – those that Trump wants targeted. Blanche also was involved in the scandalous settlement of Trump’s suit against the IRS which resulted in a $1.776 fund to pay those “weaponized” by the Biden Administration and a shielding of Trump and his family from any IRS audits. Both Cornyn and Tillis strongly oppose the settlement. Although Blanche says that the settlement is dead – it isn’t. Absent a written change to the underlying settlement, it could be revived through a breach of contract lawsuit brought in the future by Trump. Both Cornyn and Tillis insist that the fund needs to be nullified in order to consider voting for Blanche.
So Blanche is still acting as the president’s personal lawyer even though he is interim attorney general. That should be disqualifying. Yes I know that Eric Holder said that he was Obama’s “wing man” – I thought that was disqualifying too. I think that Tillis will vote for Blanche and that Cornyn will not – or at least I hope that will be the outcome because Todd Blanche should not be confirmed as attorney general.
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