{"id":76936,"date":"2026-08-03T18:57:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T23:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/completely-hollow-critics-denounce-blanche-deal-to-halt-trump-slush-fund\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T18:57:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T23:57:41","slug":"completely-hollow-critics-denounce-blanche-deal-to-halt-trump-slush-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/completely-hollow-critics-denounce-blanche-deal-to-halt-trump-slush-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Completely hollow\u2019: critics denounce Blanche deal to halt Trump slush fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats say agreement \u2013 which clears way for Blanche\u2019s confirmation \u2013 makes promises president can easily reverse<\/p>\n<p>A compromise between Todd Blanche and two Republican senators that potentially cleared the way for Blanche\u2019s confirmation as attorney general is weak, Democrats and several experts said, as it makes promises Donald Trump can easily reverse.<\/p>\n<p>Blanche, the acting attorney general, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DAGToddBlanche\/status\/2084114427813437897?s=20\">posted two documents<\/a> on Sunday evening showing he was withdrawing an 18 May order allowing for the creation of a $1.8bn weaponization fund and clarifying that broad tax immunity the justice department granted to Trump only applied retroactively to the president, his sons, and businesses.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/03\/todd-blanche-donald-trump-deal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats say agreement \u2013 which clears way for Blanche\u2019s confirmation \u2013 makes promises president can easily reverse A compromise between Todd Blanche and two Republican senators that potentially cleared the way for Blanche\u2019s confirmation as attorney general is weak, Democrats and several experts said, as it makes promises Donald Trump can easily reverse. Blanche, the &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Completely hollow\u2019: critics denounce Blanche deal to halt Trump slush fund\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/completely-hollow-critics-denounce-blanche-deal-to-halt-trump-slush-fund\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Completely hollow\u2019: critics denounce Blanche deal to halt Trump slush fund\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76936","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\/76936","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=76936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}