Trump to nominate Todd Blanche to be attorney general

President Donald Trump will nominate his acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, to be the country’s top prosecutor, he said Wednesday evening.

President Donald Trump will nominate his acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, to be the country’s permanent top prosecutor Thursday, he said at a private event at the White House on Wednesday evening.

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Dan Scavino, the White House deputy chief of staff, posted a video Wednesday night of Trump announcing Blanche’s nomination as he spoke in the Rose Garden.

“He’s acting attorney general,” Trump said in the video, referring to Blanche. “Tomorrow I’m instructing Dan and everybody else that’s involved in that very complicated process, which is going to be, I think, very quickly, that we are going to make him permanent attorney general.”