Todd Blanche's deal would bury the largest presidential corruption scheme in US history

Systemic Error Podcast · Jul 3, 2026 · 5m

A President Building a Legal Firewall Around HimselfPower Wears a SuitThe source story is simple enough: Todd Blanche, now up for attorney general, previously served as Trump’s private lawyer and helped craft a May 19 deal that would bar future prosecutions and inquiries into Trump and his family. That is the relevant fact pattern. Everything else is varnish.The real question is not whether Blanche is “experienced.” It is who he served, what he built, and what that structure is designed to prevent. The answer is blunt: he used public law to protect private power.The Client Was Never the…