Source: Los Angeles Times
by Jackie Calmes
“There are plenteous reasons not to confirm [US attorney general nominee Todd] Blanche, as I’ve written. He’s the man behind the Epstein files cover-up, vindictive prosecutions of Trump enemies and Trump’s $10-billion lawsuit against the IRS, litigation that was purportedly ‘settled’ in exchange for a $1.8-billion slush fund for Jan. 6 rioters and tax immunity for the Trump family. This week a federal judge skewered that suit as having been filed for ‘improper purpose’: the president’s self-dealing.
On top of that sorry record, Blanche is the architect of Trump’s ICE impunity. … Conventional wisdom says that Republicans won’t vote against a man so close to Trump. But that’s exactly why Blanche should not lead the Justice Department. The people’s representatives in the Senate could see that he doesn’t.” (07/16/26)