{"id":359816,"date":"2026-06-03T21:49:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T02:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/trump-expected-to-nominate-todd-blanche-as-attorney-general-soon-sources"},"modified":"2026-06-03T21:49:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T02:49:54","slug":"trump-expected-to-nominate-todd-blanche-as-attorney-general-soon-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/trump-expected-to-nominate-todd-blanche-as-attorney-general-soon-sources","title":{"rendered":"Trump anticipated to appoint Todd Blanche as lawyer basic quickly: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">President Donald Trump, during a dinner Wednesday evening, announced his intent to nominate acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to the post permanently, according to two sources at the dinner with the president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The public announcement itself could come as soon as Wednesday night, though the sources cautioned that no decision is final until Trump announces it himself.<!-- -->\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Blanche, who was once Trump&#8217;s personal attorney, served as the Department of Justice&#8217;s deputy attorney general until the president tapped him to serve as acting attorney general following Pam Bondi&#8217;s ouster.<!-- -->\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/Politics\/trump-expected-nominate-todd-blanche-attorney-general-sources\/story?id=133573332\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump, during a dinner Wednesday evening, announced his intent to nominate acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to the post permanently, according to two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":359819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13520,5303,614,1432,35192,5298,465,5197,609,26058,9318],"class_list":["post-359816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-deputy-lawyer","tag-division-of-justice","tag-donald-trump","tag-donald-trump-controversies","tag-general-public-announcement","tag-ghislaine-maxwell","tag-lawyer","tag-pam-bondi","tag-president","tag-private-lawyer","tag-todd-blanche"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359818,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359816\/revisions\/359818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}