Donald Trump said Thursday he may pull acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination for the full-time post to avoid conceding to Senate Republicans’ demands over a sweeping tax audit immunity deal benefiting the president and members of his family.
After failed negotiations forced the delay of a committee vote to advance Blanche’s nomination, Trump suggested he was holding firm against pressure from Republican Sens. John Cornyn and Thom Tillis. They have expressed concerns about the controversial settlement of Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, which a judge denounced as an exercise in self-dealing.
The senators said the Justice Department seemed interested in reaching an agreement with them, but the White House wouldn’t budge to aid the confirmation of Trump’s loyal former personal attorney, who has aggressively pursued the administration’s priorities as acting attorney general. Instead, Trump said in a social media post that he might pull Blanche’s nomination and resubmit it after Cornyn and Tillis leave office next year.
Trump‘s brain is so broken that he thinks that admitting he lost is a negotiating tactic, lol, as if “floating“ the idea is some sort of threat
He believes that because he’s withdrawing the nomination rather than failing to pass a Senate confirmation vote, he is somehow still winning because he lost on his own terms. This is the purest form of narcissism.
I view it a bit differently than “he doesn’t want to lose”.
The Senators asked Blanche directly to limit the scope of the audit settlement specifically to the parties in the original suit (Trump and his family), and to already filed returns, not new ones. Blanche verbally agreed, but the Senators want it in writing.
That is what Trump is arguing about - he wants the freedom to commit tax fraud with impunity in the future. It’s important enough to him that he wants to gamble on Republicans retaining the Senate after the election to preserve it.
This kind of gambit has worked for Republicans in the past. It’s how they stacked the SCOTUS, after all. McConnell pulled that off because he was politically shrewd, and knew it was a good gamble to take. But let’s face it, McConnell is probably never coming back to the Senate, and Trump has managed to bankrupt several casinos, so I doubt he is a good gambler.
Exactly… And this is part of my bigger point: Trump thinks that he’s somehow gonna wait out the midterm elections and come out on the winning side by re-introducing Blanche’s nomination afterward, but it’s likely he’ll have even a worse chance of getting him confirmed then.
Hopefully Blanche enjoys the view from under the bus.
Typical result for Trump toady…get fucked over
So, he’ll pull the nomination, but Blanche will still remain as acting AG anyways. Fantastic system we’ve set up here.
Aren’t those “concessions” court ordered at this point? Why would they go away if he pulls the nomination?
Exactly. The law isn’t based on a person; new nominee would likely have to meet same demands.
Despite recalling three words, T is not bright.
