Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has the inside track on getting the full-time job after the ouster of Pam Bondi, insiders tell “Seen, Heard & Whispered.”
“I love working for President Trump. It’s the greatest honor of a lifetime. And if President Trump chooses to keep me as acting, that’s an honor. If he chooses to nominate me, that’s an honor. If he chooses to nominate somebody else and I go back to being the [deputy attorney general], that’s an honor. If he chooses to nominate somebody else and asks me to go do something else, I will say, ‘Thank you very much, I love you, sir,’” Mr. Blanche told reporters in his first press conference as acting attorney general this week.
Ms. Bondi was a Trump loyalist, but Mr. Blanche may top her in terms of devotion to the president.
He served on Mr. Trump’s defense team in between presidencies and won the deputy post last year, clearing the Senate on a 52-46 vote.
Mr. Blanche, this week, defended the president’s right to direct the Justice Department to pursue certain cases and said the DOJ had to purge itself of the prosecutors who pursued Mr. Trump in two criminal cases during the Biden administration.
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Mr. Blanche said those lawyers had a conflict of ethics in working for someone they sought to put in prison.
“What happened the last four years is something that will never happen again,” he said.
