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Todd&#8217;s doing a very good job at DOJ,&#8221; Trump said in \u200ban interview with &#8220;Pod Force One&#8221; broadcast on Wednesday.<\/div>\n<div>Asked if Blanche would be the next U.S. attorney general, Trump said, &#8220;I \u200bthink he will.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>Trump did not say when he might make a nomination, which would have to \u2060be approved by the Senate.<\/div>\n<div>Blanche&#8217;s stint as acting attorney general is set to expire around late October, but it could be \u200bextended if Trump nominates him or someone else for the position. Blanche would need near-unanimous Republican support in the Senate, which \u200bRepublicans control by a narrow 53-47 margin.<\/div>\n<h2>FUND PLAN DRAWS FIERCE OPPOSITION<\/h2>\n<div>Blanche has faced backlash from Republican senators, and even some White House aides, over the Justice Department&#8217;s now-scuttled plan to create a $1.8 billion fund for victims of alleged government &#8220;weaponization.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>Blanche said on Tuesday that the DOJ would not be moving forward with the \u200bplan, which sparked fierce bipartisan opposition and threatened to derail a $72 billion funding package for Trump&#8217;s immigration crackdown.<\/div>\n<div>A Justice Department official has \u200bsaid Blanche was not part of negotiations to establish the fund, which emerged from a $10 billion lawsuit Trump brought against the Internal Revenue Service. \u200cBut Blanche \u2060directed the fund&#8217;s creation and initially defended it as a necessary step to correct past perceived injustices.<\/div>\n<div>The settlement was widely derided as a &#8220;slush fund&#8221; to benefit Trump&#8217;s political allies, given that it aimed to compensate victims of alleged mistreatment by Democrats and career government officials, not Republicans. Officials did not rule out that those convicted of attacking the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, \u200bcould receive payouts.<\/div>\n<h2>TRUMP DEFENDS ABANDONED \u200bPLAN<\/h2>\n<div>Trump, in the podcast interview, \u2060defended the fund.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;These are people that have been decimated,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I gave them pardons. 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Blanche has continued the overhaul of the Justice Department to align with Trump&#8217;s personal and political interests.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=909\">US tells Europe, Canada to boost NATO air and naval forces as Washington steps back<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=907\">Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as \u201cvacation home,\u201d documents show<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=905\">Saudi\u2019s wartime resilience<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump gave a vote of confidence to his former personal lawyer who has faced criticism from Republican lawmakers in recent days over the Justice Department&#8217;s now-scuttled plan for a &#8220;weaponization&#8221; fund. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,10],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-public-policy","tag-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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