In just the few weeks since he’s taken over the justice department’s top job on an interim basis, Todd Blanche has aggressively moved to deploy the department’s resources to please Donald Trump, leaving little doubt about how the president’s former personal attorney would further politicize the department if his status atop US law enforcement becomes permanent.
Blanche was named acting attorney general earlier this month when Trump fired Pam Bondi after the president reportedly grew frustrated with the lack of progress Bondi had made on prosecuting the president’s political enemies. Blanche told Trump he would like to have the job permanently and the president told him to consider his time as the acting attorney general as an audition, according to Fox News.
