Sarah Smith
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Americast · How will Trump’s former personal lawyer run the US justice department? · 21 Aug 2026
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Right now, the US Justice Department is probably attracting more scrutiny and coming under more controversy than at any time since the Watergate scandal.
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And that's because America's top prosecutor, the man Donald Trump has put in to be his new attorney general, has said he doesn't think his department needs to be independent from the White House.
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Todd Blanche has a big job ahead of him.
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He's taking over from his predecessor who was fired by Donald Trump, who didn't like the way she was doing the job.
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And he's got to take on everything from the Epstein files to compensation for January the sixth rioters and look at how to pursue Donald Trump's revenge agenda through the Justice Department.
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So what can we expect from the man who used to be the president's personal lawyer and
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And how much will he be under Donald Trump's control?
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Welcome to Americast.
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Hello, it's Sarah in the BBC's Washington Bureau.
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And we're running it from DC today at what is about ten o'clock in the morning for us on Thursday.
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And Sumi, we should go back before we um dig into Todd Blanton's relationship with Donald Trump to exactly what his post is, how important it is, how crucial in America.
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How would you describe what the US Attorney General does?
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It's very different from what the UK Attorney General does.
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Because ever since the Watergate scandal, it has been a tradition, hasn't it, although not a law or a constitutional necessity, that the Justice Department operates completely separately from the the White House and they're not seen to be taking orders from the President or or or or doing his political bidding.
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And that's why
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This clip of um Todd Blanche being interviewed on NBC's Meet the Press at the weekend has been particularly controversial because he was asked precisely how he'll work with Donald Trump in his new role.
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Really fascinating some of the things that he's saying there.
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This idea that the president never has and never will ask him to do anything unethical
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or illegal and also him saying that he doesn't think it is his job to act independently, even though for decades and decades that's been the case.
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