Trump’s 'lowlife' personal attorney is sliding the DOJ further into Trump’s pocket

Interim attorney general Todd Blanche has “aggressively moved to deploy the department’s resources to please [president] Donald Trump,” reports the Guardian, “leaving little doubt about how the president’s former personal attorney would further politicize the department if his status atop US law enforcement becomes permanent.”

But critics vying for the position are already training their barrels on Blanche’s behavior, the paper adds.

“He’s attempting to show that with Pam Bondi gone, things are going to start happening. And that’s a lowlife tactic,” said Peter Ticktin, a Florida lawyer who is friends with Trump and who the Guardian says has thrown his hat in the ring to be the next attorney general. “Pam Bondi is not here to defend herself and he’s basically casting an aspersions against her.”

He may be a friend of Trump, but Ticktin called Blanche’s new case against the Southern Poverty Law Center a “stupid case” and “really pathetic.”

But there’s plenty of opportunities to exploit under a man like Trump, who sits upon a pile of personal grievance and vindictive desires, and who is willing to treat independent agencies like the Department of Justice as his personal bank of lawyers.

“Blanche was named acting attorney general earlier this month when Trump fired Pam Bondi after the president reportedly grew frustrated with the lack of progress Bondi had made on prosecuting the president’s political enemies,” reports the Guardian. “Blanche told Trump he would like to have the job permanently and the president told him to consider his time as the acting attorney general as an audition, according to Fox News.”

And Blanche has hit the ground running, said the Guardian. Less than two weeks after he took over, he fired four career prosecutors and accused them of unfairly punishing anti-abortion protesters. Blanche also hired Trump ally Joe diGenova, to oversee the investigation into former CIA director John Brennan after a career prosecutor who questioned its wisdom. Also under Blanche, the justice department is now seeking to vacate the seditious conspiracy convictions against members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers for serious crimes committed during the January 6 attack on the capitol.

And on Tuesday, the justice department unveiled what critics call a “flimsy” 11-count criminal indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center for paying informants to monitor extremist groups before sharing that information with law enforcement.

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