Due to his great performance in the position, Trump confirmed that Todd Blanche will be permanently promoted to Attorney General.

President Donald Trump announced this Wednesday that he will nominate Todd Blanche to serve as Attorney General of the United States, a position he has already been holding on an interim basis.

"We are going to make him the permanent Attorney General," Trump stated at an event held today at the White House. Blanche replaced Pam Bondi in April and in these two months as head of the Department of Justice has pushed several investigations, in addition to announcing a fund of nearly 1.8 billion dollars aimed at compensating victims of political and judicial persecution by the Biden administration.

Blanche, who at the start of Trump's administration served as Bondi's number two and before entering public office was the lawyer for the Republican magnate, also prosecuted former Obama FBI director, James Comey, for threatening the president's life on social media.

Additionally, Blanche appointed Joseph diGenova, an 81-year-old former prosecutor from the Reagan administration's Department of Justice, to oversee an investigation being conducted by Florida prosecutors looking into whether former intelligence and law enforcement officials conspired over the last decade to fabricate false charges against Trump.

A witness to the political persecution against Trump

Regarding the fund aimed at compensating individuals who were unjustly investigated and prosecuted by previous Democratic administrations, Blanche did not rule out that it could include individuals convicted in relation to the January 6, 2021 Capitol assault, who were labeled by Trump as "political prisoners" due to the ruthless treatment they received from Biden's Department of Justice.

On Tuesday, the head of the government's prosecutors informed lawmakers that the Justice Department would not move forward with that compensation plan after opposition to the proposal contributed to delaying legislation for funding Trump's immigration enforcement agencies.

During his time as Trump's lawyer, Blanche used his experience as a federal prosecutor in New York to effectively defend the former president in a case brought against him. That position allowed him, as he has stated, to witness firsthand the weaponization of the criminal justice system against Trump.