Only Trump matter to Trump as Blanche AG nod wilts 83%
By New York Daily News Editorial Board97%
8/2/2026, 1:00:32 AM
Topics: US Politics
Keywords: Opinion
BS Summary: This article contains 24 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Confirmation Bias, and Fundamental Attribution Error, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 79.6% saturation with 473 hits. Analysis detected 2,152 faulty-reasoning hits from 594 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 69.4% and a BS Rank of 83% (4,457 of 26,282 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 83.00% of the article peer group.
What matters to Donald Trump is Donald Trump and so the famously selfish president shows that once again in his willingness to sacrifice his slavishly loyal personal criminal defense lawyer Todd Blanche from becoming the permanent U.S. attorney general rather than Trump give up his forever free pass from the IRS for him and his family and pals that Blanche arranged for.
GOP Sens.
John Cornyn and Thom Tillis, who are now lame ducks because Trump pushed them out, are seeking written agreements that Blanche will not pursue Trump’s stalled attempt to engineer a fraudulent deal with his own administration.
Otherwise, the duo will refuse to support the confirmation of Blanche, which is enough to block him.
Instead of saying yes, Trump has threatened to withdraw the nomination and wait until Cornyn and Tillis are out of office.
The president’s demands were framed as an “ultimatum” to the two senators, but the last time we checked, the president does not have the power to give orders to the Senate.
It is the latter that is empowered under the Constitution to provide “advice and consent” for high-level presidential appointees including cabinet secretaries, which was never intended to be a rubber stamp (Congress also creates the laws that the president must ensure are “faithfully executed” though this particular president seems to relish violating them).
And what is all this hostility for?
Presidents past have clashed with Congress over issues as weighty as whether the nation over war-making and fundamental rights and our economic character.
Trump?
He is fighting to have legislators stop asking questions over, one, his stunningly corrupt attempted raiding of the public coffers to grant his friends, allies and authoritarian foot soldiers some $1.8 billion in gifts for their loyalty; and two, his pending immunity agreement with the IRS, which would grant not only him but family, friends and affiliated entities blanket, permanent protection from investigations into past tax malfeasance.
This slush fund and immunity deal are being framed as a “settlement,” but to echo the ruling of Miami Federal Judge Kathleen Williams, there is no such settlement, legally speaking.
Settlements require there to be oppositional parties in a dispute, and the president and an executive agency he controls are not that.
The Department of Justice itself realized this, which is why it pursued this “settlement” quickly after the judge had first raised jurisdictional questions in the lawsuit.
In that way, it is not only improper but arguably a fraud on the court, leading Williams to refer Trump’s attorneys for discipline.
Blanche had already assured senators that “the settlement fund is just not moving forward” in mid-July, some two weeks before Trump not only threatened to pull his nomination until senators dropped the topic but then appealed Williams’ ruling, indicating pretty concretely that he does not intend to let it go.
Either Blanche was lying, out of the loop or Trump simply did a U-turn on this issue — all relatively strong possibilities in the chaotic, back-stabbing world of MAGA.
The president can kick and scream about this all he wants, but if Cornyn and Tillis hold firm, Blanche is not going to be confirmed.
Turns out Congress can in fact constrain an out of control executive if it really wants, it’s just a shame that it really does these days.
Similarly, we hope that the federal appeals courts and, if need be, the U.S.
Supreme Court will do its job and slap down his appeal and this laughable attempt to extort the public.
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