Trump Picks Todd Blanche, His Defense Lawyer, to Be Deputy Attorney General
www.nytimes.com
Mr. Blanche, a former supervising federal prosecutor in Manhattan, oversaw the president-elect’s legal defense against multiple indictments.

The cronyism keeps coming.

  • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
    2·
    6 hours ago

    While prestigious, I have to think the type of lawyer who wants Trump for a client is hardly goingbto want to do heavy government work for a civil servant’s salary. Surely there’s way more cash in skip-and-falls and “get six divorce punches on your loyalty club card and the 7th is free”.

    • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 hour ago

      The cash is in the favors you can do for people, now that the Supreme Court has ruled that bribes gratuities are perfectly legal. It’s no accident that Trump now wants to remove taxes on “tips”. As of right now, if you “tip” your Deputy AG to fix a case for you, it needs to be reported to the IRS. If there are no taxes on “tips”, they are not reportable to anyone, and no pesky reporter can report your “tip” income.

    • Asafum@feddit.nl
      20·
      11 hours ago

      He will be appointed “president” when king Trump will be on his deathbed, possibly 40 years from now, because the absolute worst of us never seem to die.