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Trump foe becomes only man who can torpedo Blanche: 'For God's sake, stand for something’
Trump Is Installing a Lawyer, Not an Attorney GeneralThe Real StoryRepublicans are treating Todd Blanche’s confirmation as a procedural drama about one wavering senator. That framing is convenient and wrong. The real fact is simpler: Donald Trump is trying to lock the Justice Department deeper into his personal control, and Blanche is not being selected to constrain that power but to serve it.The source gives the game away. Blanche is Trump’s former personal lawyer, already leading the Justice Department in an acting role, while Senate Republicans scramble to supply the votes that would make…
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