President Trump on Wednesday evening announced that he is nominating Todd Blanche to serve as Attorney General.
Blanche, a former federal prosecutor in New York, was chosen to serve as the Acting Attorney General after President Trump fired Pam Bondi in April.
Prior to serving as Acting Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General, Blanche served as President Trump’s personal attorney in New York.
“He’s Acting Attorney General,” Trump said at a Rose Garden event.
“Tomorrow, I’m instructing Dan and everybody else that’s involved in that very complicated process that we are going to make him permanent attorney general,” President Trump said Wednesday evening during remarks at an event at the Rose Garden.
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As expected, RINO Senator Thom Tillis is already throwing cold water on President Trump’s latest nominee.
Tillis, who derailed Ed Martin’s nomination for DC US Attorney over his statements about January 6, is now attacking Blanche.
Tillis previously told Congress reporters that Blanche was in “dangerous waters” with his January 6 statements.
On Wednesday, Tillis told Washington Examiner reporter that Blanche did a great job de-escalating the case against former Fed Chair Jerome Powell.
“Todd was instrumental in kind of de-escalating the whole Powell matter,” Tillis told the Examiner.
However, Tillis reiterated his red line on Jan. 6, calling it a “circuit breaker” for him:
“Outside of that, I mean, he’s got good credentials — people are going to hammer him because he was the president’s personal attorney, but I’m just more about getting through the J6 stuff,” Tillis said.
“It’s not a gray area for me. Either he equivocated and said harming these Capitol police officers was an OK thing, or he didn’t, and we’ll find that in the due diligence,” Tillis added.
Tillis told me today he has a lot of “respect” for Blanche and credits him with de-escalating the impasse over Jerome Powell
“Todd was instrumental in kind of de-escalating the whole Powell matter.”
But Tillis reiterated his red line on Jan. 6, calling it a “circuit breaker”… https://t.co/RcOQ1kyRZZ
— David Sivak (@DISivak) June 4, 2026
