Trump Outrages: Sycophants and Grifters and Boors, Oh My!
By Mort Kondracke
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“I love working for President Trump. It’s the greatest honor of a lifetime. And if President Trump chooses to keep me as acting Attorney General, that’s an honor. And if he chooses to nominate me (for Attorney General), that’s an honor… If he chooses to nominate someone else and asks me to do something else, I will say, ‘thank you very much. I love you, sir.’ I don’t have any goals or aspirations beyond that.”
Acting Attorney General Nominee Todd Blanche
Now that he’s been nominated as Trump’s Attorney General, Todd Blanche deserves more attention than he’s had, which should lead to the defeat of his nomination.
Once upon a time, Blanche had a conventional, solidly respected legal reputation — cum laude graduate of Brooklyn Law School; clerk for two federal judges; eight years as a prosecutor in New York co-leading a violent crimes task force supervising two dozen prosecutors handling crimes including murder, kidnapping, and other serious offenses; then partner in white-collar defense and investigations at prominent law firms WilmerHale and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft.
He started on the road to being a lickspittle for Trump — and enabler of Trump’s criminal schemes — when he began a career as a criminal defense attorney. He defended, among others, Paul Manafort, the former high-level GOP campaign manager charged with representing foreign dictators, concealing foreign bank accounts, conspiracy against the U.S., and witness tampering. Manafort was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison before Trump pardoned him.
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