Todd Blanche's old podcast appearance may haunt him at confirmation hearing: report
President Donald Trump's former personal attorney and now pick for attorney general, Todd Blanche, might be confronted with tough questions from the Senate over his "cozy relationship" with the lawyer for convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, according to a report on Thursday.
David Oscar Markus has represented Maxwell and suggested she could be pardoned by Trump. She has agreed to testify before the House Oversight Committee, but only under the condition of clemency.
And with Trump's decision to reward Blanche with the nomination for the nation's top legal job, survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirator, Maxwell, have questioned the president's move, wrote Farrah Tomazin, The Daily Beast's political correspondent covering the White House and Congress, in a post for The Swamp, The Daily Beast's Substack....