{"id":1658,"date":"2026-07-30T16:07:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T16:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2026-07-30T16:07:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T16:07:34","slug":"trump-threatens-to-pull-todd-blanches-ag-nomination-until-after-gop-holdouts-leave-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=1658","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens to pull Todd Blanche\u2019s AG nomination until after GOP holdouts leave office"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_nbcnews-fp-1200-630,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2026-07\/260730-todd-blanche-donald-trump-ew-1153a-919c6d.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Trump threatens to pull Todd Blanche\u2019s AG nomination until after GOP holdouts leave office\" title=\"Trump threatens to pull Todd Blanche\u2019s AG nomination until after GOP holdouts leave office\" \/><\/div><p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"anchor-37115d\" class=\"body-graf\">President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to withdraw Todd Blanche\u2019s nomination to be attorney general until two Republican senators who have expressed concerns about Blanche leave office in January.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-b0fd9f\" class=\"body-graf\">\u201cI have no objection to temporarily withdrawing Todd\u2019s name, if they do not do the right thing, and putting him back after Cornyn and Tillis are out of office,\u201d he said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117009581290419286\" target=\"_blank\">Thursday post<\/a> to Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-a0b111\" class=\"body-graf\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/trumps-irs-carveout-threatens-hold-todd-blanche-attorney-general-nomin-rcna589617\" target=\"_blank\">The Senate Judiciary Committee postponed<\/a> a vote to advance Blanche\u2019s nomination over objections from Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina. A single Republican no vote would mean the nomination fails to advance.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-6e00db\" class=\"body-graf\">The pair have expressed hesitancy to support Blanche over concerns with Trump\u2019s settlement with the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-db0722\" class=\"endmark body-graf\">Cornyn lost his primary election to the Trump-endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Tillis, who has clashed with Trump repeatedly, is retiring at the end of his term.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"articleDevelopingTag\" data-testid=\"article-developing-tag\">\n<p>This is a<span class=\"articleDevelopingTag__content--red\"> developing <\/span>story. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-social-share-bottom\">\n<div class=\"styles_expandedBylineContributors__piAGv articleBylineContainer\">\n<div class=\"styles_expandedByline__A_FvE article-expanded-byline\" data-activity-map=\"expanded-byline-article-bottom\">\n<div class=\"byline-thumbnail byline-thumbnail--has-image styles_thumbnail__LPjZA\" data-testid=\"byline-thumbnail\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/author\/megan-brand-ncpn1275337\" tabindex=\"-1\"><picture data-testid=\"picture\" data-flavor=\"focal\" data-original-height=\"48\" data-original-width=\"48\"><source media=\"(min-width: 320px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_focal-60x60,f_avif,q_auto:eco,dpr_2\/newscms\/2024_26\/3653107\/240627-megan-lebowitz.jpg 2x, https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_focal-60x60,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2024_26\/3653107\/240627-megan-lebowitz.jpg 1x\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_focal-60x60,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2024_26\/3653107\/240627-megan-lebowitz.jpg\" alt=\"\" height=\"48\" width=\"48\"\/><\/picture><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"expanded-byline__bio-wrapper styles_bio__hOj3l\">\n<p class=\"byline-bio styles_bio__hOj3l\">Megan Brand is a politics reporter for NBC News.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to withdraw Todd Blanche\u2019s nomination to be attorney general until two Republican senators who have expressed concerns about Blanche leave office in January. \u201cI have no objection to temporarily withdrawing Todd\u2019s name, if they do not do the right thing, and putting him back after Cornyn and Tillis are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_nbcnews-fp-1200-630,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2026-07\/260730-todd-blanche-donald-trump-ew-1153a-919c6d.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[3190,3191,3192,1520,1587,523,2889,3188,3189,289],"class_list":["post-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","tag-blanches","tag-gop","tag-holdouts","tag-leave","tag-nomination","tag-office","tag-pull","tag-threatens","tag-todd","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}