{"id":28979,"date":"2026-07-31T10:35:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=28979"},"modified":"2026-07-31T10:42:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:42:29","slug":"trumps-ag-nomination-of-todd-blanche-hits-a-brick-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/07\/31\/trumps-ag-nomination-of-todd-blanche-hits-a-brick-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s AG nomination of Todd Blanche hits a brick wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s actually getting entertaining\u2026<\/p>\n<p>NYT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/30\/us\/politics\/cornyn-trump-blanche.html\">Liberated Sen. John Cornyn defies Trump, wields leverage by throwing sand in the gears of Blanche nomination<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AP: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/congress-blanche-attorney-general-nomination-trump-2b7240c1844c1efd298257fbb5771ad3\">Trump floats pulling Blanche\u2019s nomination for attorney general to avoid conceding to GOP demands<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mediaite: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/trump-explodes-at-john-cornyn-over-todd-blanche-stand-off-never-had-a-problem-before-primary-snub\/\">Trump Explodes at John Cornyn Over Todd Blanche Stand-Off<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guardian: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/30\/trump-refuses-to-narrow-tax-immunity-deal\">Trump\u2019s tax immunity scheme hoists president by his own petard on Blanche AG nomination<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Salon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2026\/07\/31\/the-real-reason-todd-blanche-wont-drop-trumps-slush-fund\/\">The real reason Todd Blanche won\u2019t drop Trump\u2019s slush fund<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s actually getting entertaining\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}