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JUDGE VOIDS TRUMP’S $1.8 BILLION SLUSH FUND — BLANCHE FACES SENATORS WEDNESDAY

Blanche faces the Senate Wednesday. Black faces the oath Thursday. One dead man connects the week.

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Zev Shalev
Jul 13, 2026
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Todd Blanche goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday at 9 AM to become Attorney General of the United States. Senators should ask him about Ghislaine Maxwell — and now about a $1.8 billion fund a federal judge has just struck down.

Blanche was Trump’s criminal defense lawyer. He defended him in the Manhattan hush-money trial and lost. Trump made him Deputy Attorney General anyway — the loss never mattered, the loyalty did. So when the administration broke its promise to release the Epstein files last summer, Blanche took charge of the problem.

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