Todd Blanche wants to be attorney general – and he’s going all in on Trump’s retaliation agenda to prove it

Trump’s former personal attorney has left little doubt to how he’d further politicize the justice department if his status becomes permanent In just the few weeks since he’s taken over the justice department’s top job on an interim basis, Todd Blanche has aggressively moved to deploy the department’s resources to please Donald Trump, 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. 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. 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. Less than two weeks after Blanche took over, four career prosecutors were fired and a widely criticized report accused them of unfairly punishing anti-abortion protesters. Blanche also hired Trump ally Joe diGenova, an 81-year-old former US attorney, to oversee the investigat