{"id":1074,"date":"2026-06-05T08:06:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T08:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2026-06-05T08:06:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T08:06:59","slug":"political-scholar-reveals-the-real-reason-trump-picked-blanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1074","title":{"rendered":"Political scholar reveals the real reason Trump picked Blanche"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump has picked Todd Blanche as his permanent attorney general, according to a top political scientist, because ex-Attorney General Pam Bondi was not corrupt enough for him.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat everyone needs to understand is the danger here and what the Senate is concerned about. Todd Blanche \u2014 he’s not a new bestie, he’s a true bestie,\u201d Morgan State University political scientist Dr. Jason Johnson told MS NOW\u2019s Nicolle Wallace on Thursday. \u201cHe was Trump’s lawyer. His entire reason for being in this job is to protect this president, because he agrees with him ideologically, because he sees a kindred spirit with him morally, and because he sees his job as not serving the country but serving Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

He elaborated on how Blanche was accused by Bondi of playing a key role in covering up Trump\u2019s relationship with convicted sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. He also mentioned that Blanche had a two-day sit-down meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell, seemingly for the purpose of finding out how she could protect the president.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wish that would be enough to keep him from being confirmed, but it may not be,\u201d Johnson told Wallace. \u201cIt may be his position on the slush fund and January 6th that keeps this man from being in the position of the most important attorney in the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Regarding the slush fund, Johnson referred to Blanche\u2019s well-documented role in settling a lawsuit Trump filed against the IRS for $10 billion. Trump sued his own agency because, during his first term, an independent contractor affiliated with them leaked his tax returns, proving that he had filed far less than most Americans in most years and had a number of undisclosed business failures. Because Trump controls both the IRS and the Department of Justice, which in theory would defend the IRS from litigation, critics claimed there was a conflict of interest and that any settlement would involve self-dealing.<\/p>\n

When the presiding judge, concerned about those accusations, ordered all parties involved to appear before her bench, Blanche rushed through a settlement for $1.8 billion that would go to Trump-affiliated institutions and Trump supporters who claimed to have been victims of government weaponization.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat do you think of the sort of one-sided politics here?\u201d Wallace asked Johnson about the lack of Republican outrage over Blanche\u2019s actions in terms of potential conflicts of interest. \u201cRepublicans made hay when Obama’s attorney general Loretta Lynch had what appeared to be a spontaneous run-in with Bill Clinton … And here, of course, the levels of this \u2014 the personal lawyer being the attorney general \u2014 it melts it all down as a farce.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson agreed with Wallace.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was Trump’s personal attorney,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cHe’s doing podcasts with Sean Hannity. He’s trying to create a slush fund for the president of the United States. He said, \u2018Hey, we should send ICE agents to polls.\u2019 He says that his job is to serve this president as opposed to the people. So there is no comparison. I think that’s so important for people to understand \u2014 not anyone that Barack Obama had. We have never had an attorney, and possibly a full attorney general, who has made it so nakedly obvious that his goal was to be the personal lawyer of the president, as opposed to even serving the [Department of Justice].\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, reporter Asawin Suebsaeng’s Zeteo newsletter revealed that Trump agreed to appoint Blanche because he hopes Blanche will succeed in prosecuting Trump\u2019s perceived political enemies.<\/p>\n

“Trump and his White House are coaxing with a very simple message: the boss will be monumentally livid at you if you don\u2019t get very serious \u2013 very soon \u2013 about jailing his political enemies,” Suebsaeng reported. He later added that an adviser told Zeteo that Trump\u2019s instructions to Blanche were, \u201cYou cannot f\u2014\u2014 up like Pam.”<\/p>\n

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