As Trump fires Pam Bondi (after she fell on the sword for him) and appoints Todd Blanche?
In recent years, Todd Blanche has been the lawyer President Trump has turned to, over and over, in his times of need.
It was Mr. Blanche who defended Mr. Trump in three of the four criminal cases he was facing, losing one to the Manhattan district attorney’s office but effectively winning two against the special counsel Jack Smith.
It was Mr. Blanche who took the No. 2 position at the Justice Department, stepping in as deputy attorney general to run the agency day to day, when Mr. Trump was re-elected.
And now it is Mr. Blanche whom the president has called upon again — this time in another moment of turmoil to serve as the interim attorney general after the abrupt firing of his predecessor, Pam Bondi.
It was Todd Blanche who famously interrogated Ghislaine Maxwell