Blanche Built Trump a $1.776 Billion Fund. Now Two Republicans Won't Confirm Him.

The “1776 fund” pays the president's allies and shields his family from audits — the same deal that got the IRS's top lawyer fired, and got Blanche referred to the bar. His confirmation, and the Epstein files, hang on Tillis and Cornyn.

President Trump swears in Todd Blanche as deputy attorney general. White House photo.

Two dozen women who survived Jeffrey Epstein wrote to Senators Thom Tillis and John Cornyn on Tuesday and asked them to sink Todd Blanche. The two Republicans sit on the Judiciary Committee, and either one can stop Trump's acting attorney general from ever running the J…