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By Klaus Marre89%
7/30/2026, 12:44:08 PM
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How much does Donald Trump want to use nearly $2 billion in taxpayer money to reward the people who committed crimes on his behalf?
Apparently enough to torpedo the nomination of his former personal lawyer as attorney general.
While Todd Blanche has served in that role in an acting capacity, the Senate Judiciary Committee was slated to confirm him permanently for the position on Thursday.
However, that vote was postponed when it became clear that two Republicans on the panel — Sens.
John Cornyn (TX) and Thom Tillis (NC) — were unwilling to advance the nomination to the Senate because of their concerns over Trump’s slush fund and an immunity agreement that shields the president, his family, and his businesses from IRS audits.
While Blanche has assured lawmakers that the so-called “anti-weaponization fund” is dead, he seems unwilling to put that in writing.
A written assurance, however, is what it will take to earn the support of the two senators.
Now, Trump is apparently fed up with the two — and unwilling to give up on the phony sweetheart deal that his Department of Justice brokered with his IRS after the president filed a frivolous lawsuit against his own administration.
In a social media post in which he pointed out that he ended their political careers, he blasted the pair for “refusing to vote for this Great Nominee.”
He added that he has “no objection to temporarily withdrawing Todd’s name, if they do not do the right thing, and putting him back after Cornyn and Tillis are out of office.”
On the one hand, the downside for Trump is somewhat limited since Blanche can remain the acting attorney general and continue to do his bidding instead of that of the American people, for example, when it comes to the Epstein files.
There is, however, a small problem with his plan: At the rate things are going, the Democrats may be in the majority come next year.
At the very least, the GOP is on track to lose a couple of seats and may not have the votes to confirm Blanche in January either.
Trump’s tantrum shows that his hammerlock on Senate Republicans is slipping a bit — in large part because he has attacked so many of them.
Above all, however, the president is making it quite clear that he is unwilling to give up on the idea that American taxpayers should compensate those of his supporters who stormed the Capitol and attacked law enforcement officers in their attempt to overturn his 2020 election loss.
While their pardon on the first day of his second term in office already proved that misdeeds committed on his behalf will go unpunished, the slush fund is meant to show that they will be richly rewarded.
That’s certainly a powerful message to send ahead of midterms that Republicans are on track to lose.
Trump Unwilling to Sacrifice Slush Fund for Blanche originally appeared on WhoWhatWhy
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