Hi there, everyone.

If there is one value, Donald Trump has made it abundantly clear he treasures above all others.

It is blind, unswerving, slobvering, loyalty. He values it over competency and principles

over his own political party affiliation over the rule of law. An acting attorney general

Todd Blanche's tenure atop the Justice Department has been defined by exactly that.

So now Donald Trump is rewarding him for it.

Here's Trump yesterday.

Tomorrow I'm instructing Dan 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.

Permanent Attorney General.

If you're wondering how Todd Blanche, a man who actually surprisingly now faces an uphill Senate confirmation battle,

secured Trump's vote to be nominated for the top job permanently look no further than

Todd Blanche's dogged pursuit of Donald Trump's agenda of retribution and the complete politicization

of the Department of Justice. For Todd Blanche, that comes seemingly without any limits.

And he's done it in the barely two months since Pam Bondi was fired, and Blanche was appointed acting AG.

Almost as soon as Blanche assumed that role, he hired Trump Allied Joe de Genova.

Joe de Genova was hired to breathe new life into an investigation into former CIA

director, John Brennan. Donald Trump, of course, blames John Brennan for the intelligence

community's investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Todd Blanche led the effort to indict former director of the FBI Jim Comey, a frequent

target of Donald Trump's political attacks, for posting a photo of seashells.

Todd Blanche approved an investigation into former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson. Hutchinson testified

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