John Mullan
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46 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Aug
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After that interview with Todd Blanche, he'd been moved to a lower security facility.
Now, Democrats were really unhappy about that.
He said there was no wrongdoing whatsoever.
But on the release of the files, he admitted some mistakes, particularly over the fact that the names of some survivors and victims had not been redacted in some files.
He apologised for that.
The other really big issue here is the critics of the administration and of Todd Blanche
believe that his role as a former defence lawyer, a personal defence lawyer to President Trump, has now sort of mutated into this role leading the justice system as President Trump's protector-in-chief and masterminding the use of the legal system for retribution to prosecute Mr Trump's
political enemies.
Now, he completely denied all of that, but there was still a big push on that from Democrats, which is why many of them are going to clearly oppose and reject his confirmation.
But the problem for Mr Blanche is this is going to be a razor thin vote, it looks like, over his confirmation.
So he has to get every Republican on board.
There are at least two here, Tom Tillis and John Cornyn, who are sceptics, who won't
necessarily vote for him and were pushing him hard over the issue of President Trump's so-called anti-weaponization fund and his role in that legal settlement.
Now, again, he said this was all by the book, although he tried to distance himself from the fund.
It seems like one of those Republicans was convinced by his answers.
But still, this is going to be clearly a very, very tight vote.
Another day of hearings to go, other witnesses to hear from, including survivors of Jeffrey Epstein.
So still a lot of work for Todd Blanche clearly to do to try and get this confirmation through the Senate.
Yeah, we should make clear that actually it's not men buying these books about women being murdered or endangered for some prurient reason.
I mean, women are buying these books in huge numbers.
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