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Trump says he may delay Todd Blanche’s attorney general nomination. See how the day unfolded. 3%
By Globe Staff0%
7/29/2026, 9:12:40 PM
Keywords: Trump, Todd Blanche, Attorney General, Nomination, Cornyn, Tillis, Irs Lawsuit, Anti Weaponization Fund
BS Summary: This article contains 6 faulty reasoning types, including Halo Effect, Quote-first Misdirection, and Ad Hominem, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 8.7% saturation with 25 hits. Analysis detected 89 faulty-reasoning hits from 286 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 12.2% and a BS Rank of 3% (21,925 of 22,405 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 97.90% of the article peer group.
President Trump said Thursday he may withdraw and delay Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general until Republican Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis leave office.
Trump doubled down Thursday on choosing his former personal lawyer as the nation’s top lawman, calling him “a STAR.”
He said he’ll keep Blanche as acting attorney general until Republican Sens.
John Cornyn and Thom Tillis are gone.
Cornyn and Tillis have demanded additional assurances in writing that the “Anti-Weaponization Fund” is dead and have pressed for clarification on the scope of a tax immunity deal Trump secured by suing the Internal Revenue Service.
Cornyn has said he wants the administration to modify that piece of the settlement to make clear that it covers only existing audits and does not protect the president from examination of future tax filings.
Tillis characterized the president’s position as “win a battle, lose a war.”
“It makes no sense to me,” Tillis said.
“This is not popular.
The president’s not winning on this issue.
It is killing some of our candidates because they can’t explain it.
And now, it looks like they weren’t being honest when they said it was inoperative.”
“I don’t know whether they think they can wait us out or we’ll cave, but I assure you we won’t,” Cornyn said Thursday of the Trump administration.
In a social media post responding to Trump, Cornyn wrote that the president is “mistaken if he believes concerns about the provisions in his tax lawsuit settlement are limited to me and Senator Tillis.”
Trump’s comments came after the Senate Judiciary Committee postponed a planned vote on Thursday to advance Blanche’s nomination.
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