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President Donald Trump is trying to ram through his controversial assistant attorney general, Todd Blanche, to be America\u2019s official attorney general \u2014 and despite their claims to independence, it appears many Senate Republicans are prepared to go along with him.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSenator Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican undecided about Todd Blanche\u2019s nomination as permanent attorney general, drew a red line last month: He would vote no if Mr. Blanche was too soft on the rioters who had ransacked the Capitol on Jan. 6,\u201d reported The New York Times\u2019 Glenn Thrust and Alan Feuer on Sunday. \u201cSoon after, Mr. Tillis, a moderate on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he had a \u2018positive predisposition\u2019 after meeting with Mr. Blanche, despite the fact that the acting attorney general had recently signed off on a $1.8 billion fund that could have been funneled to those who stormed Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n

In general, the Tillis anecdote reflects the broader sentiment among Senate Republicans. Since the start of Trump\u2019s second term, GOP lawmakers have often expressed skepticism or even outright opposition to Trump\u2019s more controversial picks \u2014 from FBI Director Kash Patel to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth \u2014 before ultimately lining up in lockstep behind Trump\u2019s choices and deferring to his wishes.<\/p>\n

As such, even though Republicans claim to be concerned about Blanche\u2019s fealty to Trump and insisting he not help with the $1.8 billion slush fund, there are early signs that they are not going to push too hard against him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn private meetings, Mr. Blanche has repeatedly told senators the fund plan was \u2018dead,\u2019 at times repeating the word three times for emphasis, according to people familiar with the conversations,\u201d the Times reported. \u201cBut he has given no indication that he intends to scrap the part of the agreement offering immunity on past I.R.S. audits.\u201d<\/p>\n

In that vein, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) has said that he wants to learn more about Blanche\u2019s views on whether Trump should be forever exempt from tax audits, although he has not gone so far as to say that he will vote against Blanche if he says he still supports this for the president.<\/p>\n

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\u201cUnlike Mr. Tillis, Mr. Cornyn has not yet indicated how he is leaning and has requested a follow-up briefing on the tax issue,\u201d the Times reported. \u201c\u2018I will not make a decision on confirmation until after that briefing and completion of his hearing before the committee,\u2019 Mr. Cornyn wrote in a recent X post.\u201d<\/p>\n

In contrast to Cornyn and Tillis, the latter of whom said he will oppose Blanche\u2019s appointment if there is \u201ceven a whiff of a lack of independence,\u201d the Times reported that \u201cDemocrats say there has been a waft, not a whiff. They see the hearing as an opportunity for the committee\u2019s Republican majority to reassert legislative authority over a department they regard as a cabal of Mr. Trump\u2019s formal personal lawyers acting in his interests, rather than for the public good.\u201d<\/p>\n

The venerable newspaper also pointed out that Blanche is appearing before a committee that has greenlit virtually all of Trump\u2019s notable picks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe committee, led by Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, has pushed through Trump appointees, even those Republicans have criticized \u2014 like the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel \u2014 after extracting vague assurances from the nominees that they would safeguard the department\u2019s tradition of independence and abide by the rule of law,\u201d the Times wrote.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Blanche came under fire for seemingly continuing to help Trump cover up his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein, the late child sex trafficker with whom he was friends for decades and who allegedly facilitated his encounter with a 13-year-old girl who says he sexually assaulted her. When the government watchdog group American Oversight demanded the release of files related to Epstein through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), it met with resistance. They asked for \u201call email communications sent or received by Todd Blanche and containing both a key term from Column A and a key term from Column B,\u201d and \u201call text messages and messages on messaging platforms … sent or received by Todd Blanche and containing the term \u2018Epstein.\u2019\u201d The columns include words like \u201cEpstein,” \u201cMaxwell,\u201d \u201cTrump,\u201d \u201cDJT,\u201d \u201cPOTUS,\u201d \u201cDOE174,\u201d \u201cTallahassee\u201d and various related terms, according to a report by The New Republic.<\/p>\n

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