Todd Blanche’s nomination to be permanently made the attorney general marks the apex of a gamble from a man who bet everything on representing Donald Trump and became one of his most steadfast and punishing enforcers.
Trump announced the news at the White House on Monday. The nomination will require Senate confirmation to become permanent.
Blanche was a relatively unknown lawyer until he joined Trump’s legal team in March 2023, just after Trump was indicted for the first time in a New York state case involving a hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels. Blanche, a registered Democrat until a few years ago, resigned a lucrative partnership at a Wall Street law firm to represent the president, essentially betting everything on Trump at a moment when Trump faced mounting criminal charges and the walls seemed to be closing in.
Imagine if a single Democrat ever acted this way about Obama or Biden. Imagine how Fox would respond.
How many Democrats are going to vote to confirm him? Because we know some are.
If someone wrote this in a movie about an authoritarian takeover, people would complain it’s too cliche. The dictator installs his own personal lawyer as the Justice Dept head…
Fuck I can’t wait for [ Removed by Reddit ].
You mean the big dance party?
Everyone will party for a few days, but then in that time the coup of the US Government will be completed by the technofascists like Thiel and his puppet Vance, Yarvin, Andreeson, Musk, and others. A lot of this info is presented in audio format in a Behind the Bastards episode on venture capital extremism, another episode on Peter Thiel, and another on Curtis Yarvin, Robert Evans explains more here, and in video format here
Apropos of nothing, did you know that, while the president himself gets secret service protection, many of the cronies he relies on to do his bidding do not? Just a funny observation.
If we’re lucky, Stephen Miller will never feel safe enough to leave that military base ever again
I’m not calling for anyone to do anything, I’m just saying when it happens
“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.’ I don’t have any goals or aspirations beyond that.”
So he has no goals or aspirations beyond doing what the president asks him, and makes sure we all can hear that he loves him (“sir”).
So… a totally independent AG committed to upholding the rule of law then.
It’s like the Mitchell & Web Lucentio sketch, but with the roles reversed. Todd, are you sure you wouldn’t like to just…have a sweaty tumble with Trump, and leave others to sort out the admin of…I dunno, upholding justice?
Orange man got a Smithers.
“Todd… there’s a rocket in my pocket!”
What he actually said was ”whaargl whaaaaughhh ghhhhlkk” because of how hard he was trying to throat Donnie.
This is what gargling orange balls sounds like.
Blanche, a registered Democrat until a few years ago, resigned a lucrative partnership at a Wall Street law firm to represent the president,
Surprised he can talk with that tiny sweaty mushroom in his mouth…
I thought they voted for Trump because they wanted gays out of politics.
Leon Fortunato enters the chat
