Todd Blanche ‘honoured and humbled’ as Trump says he'll nominate him as US Attorney General

Key points

• US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would move to nominate Todd Blanche, the acting US Attorney General, to permanently lead the Justice Department.
• This would make Trump's former personal lawyer the US's top law enforcement officer.
• "He's acting attorney general.
• I'm instructing Dan (Scavino) and everybody else that's involved in that very complicated process - which is going to go, I think, very quickly - that we are going to make him permanent attorney general," Trump said at a White House event, according to a video posted on X late on Wednesday by his aide Scavino.
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