Todd Blanche Is Attorney General

And he's ready to go after Trump's enemies while protecting Trump himself.

One picture is worth a thousand words.

The Dam Is Barely Holding

Despite refusing to tell Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) who won the 2020 presidential election, Jay Clayton was confirmed to be Director of National Intelligence.  He's actually one of Trump's better nominees, his main qualification is that he is not Tulsi Gabbard.  

Meanwhile, there is another subject that I haven't commented enough if at all on, Trump's appointment of Todd Blanche (above) as Attorney General.  A handful of Republican senators - especially Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who decided that he'd rather be a lame duck than a dead duck (he evidently remembers what almost happened to Mike Pence  on January 6, 2021), and John Cornyn of Texas, forced into early retirement by the Lone Star State's Republican primary voters in favor of the horrible Ken Paxton.   Trump has even threatened to pull the Blanche nomination because of the lack of support.

So far, the dam against GOP election fraud is holding, but just barely.  But there are still dangers to free and fair midterm elections this year.  Clayton may have a little integrity, but he's likely willing to shred it to help Trump nullify votes in key battleground (don't you hate that expression?) states like Georgia (where Senator Ossoff is up for re-election), and even if he isn't confirmed as Attorney General, Blanche, who is all in on Trump's election conspiracy theories, is still acting Attorney General and it ready, willing and able to push for federalizing and rigging elections - with a blessing from a right-wing Supreme Court that supports the unitary executive theory of supreme presidential authority.  

By the way, remember when Madonna threatened to blow up the White House in January 2017?  At this point, I would be quite happy to see her blow up that now-degraded residence by committing an al-Qaeda-style terrorist attack and flying a Lear jet full of explosives and filled gasoline containers into the building with Trump in it. It would eliminate America's two most malignant narcissists at once.  There, I said it. 

Non-Stick Pam

Pam Bondi is out as Attorney General.

Donald Trump fired her for numerous reasons one of them being her complete lack of media savviness.  The hearing in which she was forced to talk about the Epstein files and defended Trump by citing the Dow hitting 50,000 points (thanks to the Iran war, it's since gone way down for that) and referring to House members by their last names without salutations, made her like the fool she is, and even Trump understood that.  She just didn't look good on TV.

Seeing as how Trump wanted a woman who was good  on television to serve as the nation's top law enforcement officer, I'm surprised he didn't appoint Pam Dawber.

But then that would make sense.  At least Pam Dawber could act like an Attorney General!

But there were a couple of other reasons Trump ousted Bondi.  No mater how corrupt she was at trying to shield Trump from the Epstein files and allowing him to break the law, she wasn't corrupt enough.  And even though she prosecuted many of Trump's enemies as part of his revenge against folks who tried to prosecute him - James Comey, Letitia James - the cases got thrown out of court.  She was not the sort of Attorney General who could successfully keep the Epstein files under wraps completely, and she did not have the necessary skills to make any cases against Trump's adversaries stick.  Now that she's gone, Trump hopes to find someone who can outdo her - and given how there are probably more federal judges out there who might make it easier for the Justice Department to prosecute Trump's enemies, like Aileen Cannon, than we might think, Trump might find the right Attorney General to do his dirty work.

For now, Trump has Assistant Attorney General Todd Blanche, one of his personal attorneys from the 2024 fraud trial, as acting Attorney General to ignore the law, and Environmental Protection Agency director Lee Zeldin, who has spent the past year and change ignoring the ecosystem, is the likeliest permanent successor to Bondi.  Whether either Blanche or Zeldin can cover up the Epstein files and fuck up Comey and James well enough to satisfy Trump remains to be seen.  (Zeldin graduated from Albany Law School, which, as far as I know, is like Ed's Law School on the late Tony Randall's eponymous late-seventies sitcom; when you have an Attorney General who holds a law degree from a school you'd never heard before he took office, expect amateur hour.)  As for Bondi, she can expect endless hours of testifying under oath once Democrats regain the House of Representatives and start investigating her and her old boss.   

And that Republican Party-friendly Italian-American group on Facebook that celebrated that Italian-American Bondi for becoming the first female attorney general appointed by a Republican President won't be talking so loudly about her in the future.