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Blanche would likely face a bruising Senate confirmation battle, with some Republican lawmakers already expressing hesitancy.<\/strong><\/p>

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Acting attorney general Todd Blanche testified before the House Appropriations Committee on June 2. (Allison Robbert\/Ap Photo\/Allison Robbert)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he planned to formally nominate acting attorney general Todd Blanche for a full term <\/b>as the nation\u2019s chief law enforcement officer, signaling confidence in his former personal defense lawyer\u2019s leadership of a department over which the president has sought to exert unprecedented control.<\/p>\n

Trump announced his intention to move forward Thursday with the nomination during a White House dinner Wednesday evening, according to a video of his remarks<\/a> posted to social media by deputy White House chief of staff Dan Scavino.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going to make him permanent attorney general,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

Blanche has held the job on a temporary basis since Trump fired former attorney general Pam Bondi<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s decision to back Blanche for a permanent term will kick off a Senate confirmation process that could face tough headwinds.<\/p>\n

Some Republican senators have already expressed hesitation about supporting Blanche for the job, raising questions about recent comments in which they believed he appeared to excuse violence committed during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack<\/a> on the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n

More recently, Blanche faced open revolt<\/a> from some portions of the Republican caucus in the Senate, as he unsuccessfully sought to defend a deal struck to settle legal claims Trump had filed against the government with the creation of a $1.8 billion fund to compensate people who believe they have been victims of politicized prosecutions. Facing bipartisan backlash, Blanche returned to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to announce that plans for the fund had been scuttled.<\/p>\n

Trump has repeatedly expressed approval for Blanche\u2019s performance in his temporary post, including the day after Blanche\u2018s reversal on the settlement deal.<\/p>\n

\u201cTodd\u2019s doing a very good job at DOJ,\u201d the president said during an appearance on Wednesday\u2019s episode of the New York Post podcast, Pod Force One. Trump added, \u201cI wanted to see how he\u2019s received. … We put him as acting, and he\u2019s done a very good job, but I\u2019ve known him a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Justice Department referred questions about Trump\u2019s intention to nominate Blanche to the White House.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, it was Trump\u2019s dissatisfaction with Bondi \u2014 namely over her failure to satisfy his desire<\/a> to see his political enemies put on trial \u2014 that led to the president\u2019s decision to fire her in April.<\/p>\n

Before Trump tapped Blanche to replace her, he had been serving as Bondi\u2019s top deputy. Since taking over the top job, Blanche has moved aggressively \u2014 and swiftly \u2014 to deliver results to Trump, while quickly racking up accusations from critics that he\u2019s abandoned standard Justice Department norms and continues to operate as if he were working as Trump\u2019s personal lawyer.<\/p>\n

In less than three months in the job, Blanche and his department have secured an indictment against one of Trump\u2019s chief critics, former FBI director James B. Comey; moved to undo the last remaining Jan. 6 convictions; rolled back gun regulations; pursued investigations into Trump\u2019s unsupported fraud claims about his 2020 election loss, and released reports accusing the Biden administration of weaponizing the justice system against conservatives.<\/p>

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Blanche has lauded the heavy influence Trump has sought to bear on the typically independent department, saying the president has a \u201cright\u201d and \u201cduty\u201d to say who he thinks prosecutors should be investigating.<\/a><\/p>\n

Blanche\u2019s announcement last month of the proposed deal to resolve Trump\u2019s legal claims, including a lawsuit he filed against the IRS over leaked tax records, delivered the president what could have been one of his most significant victories yet.<\/p>\n

The proposed $1.8 billion \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund would have granted a panel of Trump administration appointees control over a massive pot of taxpayer money with almost unchecked authority to dole it out to those who, like Trump, claim they have been unfairly targeted for prosecution.<\/p>\n

The deal also included a provision that Blanche maintains would bar the government from pursuing any preexisting unpaid tax claims against Trump. The president has repeatedly complained that his tax filings from before his first presidency have been subject to repeated audits. Though it is unclear whether the IRS was still pursuing those reviews at the time of the settlement, the tax provisions of the deal could potentially spare the Trumps from massive tax liability.<\/p>\n

Though Blanche called off the plans for the compensation fund this week amid pushback from Republican lawmakers, he said the Justice Department intended to stand by the tax protections the settlement deal extended to the Trumps.<\/p>\n

At a Capitol Hill hearing this week, Democrats accused him of still acting as if he were the president\u2019s personal lawyer.<\/p>\n

Blanche previously represented Trump in his 2024 New York trial, which ended with his conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments<\/a> to an adult film actress.<\/p>\n

He also led Trump\u2019s defense in the two federal felony cases brought by special counsel Jack Smith \u2014 the first over his alleged retention of classified documents and the second over his attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss. Neither of those cases made it to trial.<\/p>\n

Still, Blanche has bristled when asked whether he feels pressure to please Trump in his new role or if he viewed his stint as acting attorney general as an audition for a permanent shot at the job. <\/b>His term as acting attorney general is set to expire in the fall, though his nomination will extend his ability to remain on the job if the Senate does move to confirm him before then.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did not ask for this job,\u201d Blanche told reporters at his first news conference in April. \u201cIf President Trump chooses to keep me as acting, that\u2019s an honor. If he chooses to nominate me, that\u2019s an honor. If he chooses to nominate somebody else, and I go back to being the [deputy attorney general] that\u2019s an honor.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added then: \u201cIf he chooses to nominate somebody else and asks me to go do something else, I will say, \u2018Thank you very much, I love you, sir.\u201d<\/p>

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This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/i><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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