Trump\u2019s former personal attorney has left little doubt to how he\u2019d further politicize the justice department if his status becomes permanent<\/p>\n
In just the few weeks since he\u2019s taken over the justice department\u2019s top job on an interim basis, Todd Blanche has aggressively moved to deploy the department\u2019s resources to please Donald Trump, leaving little doubt about how the president\u2019s former personal attorney would further politicize the department if his status atop US law enforcement becomes permanent.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trump\u2019s former personal attorney has left little doubt to how he\u2019d further politicize the justice department if his status becomes permanent In just the few weeks since he\u2019s taken over the justice department\u2019s top job on an interim basis, Todd Blanche has aggressively moved to deploy the department\u2019s resources to please Donald Trump, leaving little … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}