Trump to nominate Todd Blanche as US attorney general

President Donald Trump said he would ⁠move to ⁠nominate acting US Attorney ⁠General Todd Blanche on Thursday to permanently lead the Justice Department, which would make his former personal lawyer the nation’s top law enforcement officer.“He’s acting attorney general. Tomorrow. ‌I’m instructing Dan (Scavino) and everybody else that’s involved in that very complicated process – which is going to go, I think, very quickly – that we are going to make him permanent attorney general,” Trump said at a White House event, ⁠according to a video posted on social media late on Wednesday by his ‌aide Scavino.Blanche, 51, took over leadership of the Justice Department after Trump fired Pam Bondi in April ‌amid tension over the agency’s release of files related to ⁠convicted ⁠child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and frustration that the department was not moving forcefully enough ‌against the White House’s supposed political enemies.Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche reacts to questioning during a House committee hearing in Washington, D.C on Tuesday. Photo: TNSBlanche has faced backlash from Republican senators, and ‌even some White ‌House aides, over the Justice Department’s now-scuttled plan to create ‌a US$1.8 billion fund for victims of alleged government “weaponisation”.