(تود بلانش) هو النائب العام بعد تصويت مجلس الشيوخ الذي لم يفصل ترشيحه عن ملفات (إبستين)

Pam Bondi left the Justice Department in April 2026. Todd Blanche, already the deputy and already the president’s former criminal-defense lawyer, stepped in as acting attorney general and told the country the ouster had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein’s files. Four months later the Senate confirmed him anyway, 50-49, in a vote that ended around 4:30 a.m. on August 8. He took the oath on August 10. The files were still unfinished. The denial was still the official line. The AEGIS Alliance يُبقي كلا الحقائق على نفس الصفحة لأن (واشنطن) تواصل محاولة تقسيمها

House Oversight Chair James Comer said as recently as September 3 that he still wants Blanche under oath about how those files were handled when Blanche was deputy. Democrats on the same committee have been saying the same thing for months. The invitation is not a courtesy. It is an admission that the confirmation did not settle the only question that mattered: who gets to decide which pages of the Epstein archive stay black.

إنكار لم ينجو من الاتصال بالتقويم

Bondi told a congressional panel on May 29 that Blanche had led the department’s review and release of the Epstein material “from the beginning.” That sentence wrecks the April talking point. If Blanche ran the project, then Bondi’s firing and Blanche’s promotion are not separate from the project. They are the project’s personnel file. 19 الناجين المسجلين يدعون أنفسهم رهانات في التأكيد (ليز ستين) قالت أن التصويت كان نكسة ولم تنتهي اجتماع لا يوجد إلا لأن السيد (توم تيليس) رفض نقل الترشيح بدونه ليس جلسة استماع إنه قفل على الباب

The Epstein Files Transparency Act set December 19, 2025, as the date the department had to publish the archive. مقلبات جزئية تتبع في الشتاء. أسماء الضحايا سُرقت على صفحات كان ينبغي حمايتها ثم بدأ القسم بالتحدث كما لو أن العمل الرئيسي قد تم سابقاً اعتراف بأن أقل من 1 في المائة من الملفات قد أُفرج عنها ما زال خط الأساس الصادق كل شيء بعد ذلك التاريخ هو قتال حول كم من النظام الأساسي محامي الرئيس على استعداد للطاعة.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse spent July 13 listing unanswered oversight letters. The first items were Blanche’s own interviews of Ghislaine Maxwell and the review of Epstein records. The New York City Bar told Sens. Chuck Grassley and Dick Durbin to reject the nomination, citing loyalty to Donald Trump over the department, a situation-room huddle with White House staff about protecting the president from the files, and Maxwell’s transfer to a minimum-security camp. Alliance for Justice opposed him on the mishandling of the statutory release. Those are not adjectives from a protest sign. They are the paper a Senate majority chose to treat as background noise.

جمهوريان صوّتوا بلا، ولا يزال الكاووس يريد المبنى

(سوزان كولينز) و (ليزا موركوسكي) صوتوا ضده نيويورك تايمز تسمى كدمات الليل رويترز و نداء listed the other objections those two senators put in writing: a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, a tax-immunity arrangement for Trump and his sons, statements to anti-abortion groups, and the targeting of former staff and sitting senators. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana supplied the late yes that made 50. Cassidy also said out loud what the caucus did not want in the headline. Blanche could have stayed deputy and acting at the president’s pleasure. The title was optional. The caucus wanted it anyway.

Permanent is how you freeze a denial into letterhead. Acting can be walked back. Attorney general is the name survivors will see on the next refusal. House Oversight Democrats later said one of Blanche’s first moves after confirmation was an Office of Legal Counsel memo expanding executive privilege over talks with “private advisers.” That tool is built for the same investigation the statute already told the department to finish.

The confirmation hearings ran July 15 and 16. The Judiciary Committee sent him forward 12-10. Hearings that treat the files as one topic among many are how a cover-up becomes procedure. Blanche sat with victims on July 16 because Tillis required it. Survivors described him as abrasive and noncommittal. The vote still happened. The files still sat.

المحاكم لم تنتظر شروق الشمس

Journalist Katie Phang sued Blanche on April 27 in Washington. On June 25, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan granted a preliminary injunction on her Administrative Procedure Act claims. He told the department to produce specified records with certain redactions stripped, start foreign-language review, and publish the redaction log the statute requires, or show cause. A July 2 production date slipped to 3 p.m. on July 30. Constitutional Accountability Center said the department missed the order and chose delay again. The companion files on this desk are Phang ضد Blanche و تقرير سوليفان النهائي.

In August, Sullivan held a status hearing that left Justice looking unprepared. He raised civil contempt, reminded the room he had held department lawyers in contempt before, and said the public has a right to know what is going on. He did not drop the hammer that afternoon. He put the government on notice that he would. American Oversight tried to force Blanche’s Epstein and Jack Smith records out before the hearing. A D.C. judge denied that preliminary injunction on July 10. Senators voted anyway.

New Mexico’s attorney general accused the department of obstructing a state investigation into Epstein’s ranch after more than 130 days without the unredacted files the state requested. That letter landed in July, while Blanche was still asking the Senate to trust him with the building. A confirmation calendar can treat a missed court date as scheduling. A transparency statute cannot. The vote taught the department that delay is free so long as the nominee’s name is already on the roll call.

مشكلة العملاء هي تاريخ العمل

Blanche kept Trump out of jail. That is not a smear. That is the resume. Combined with Maxwell’s interview, a camp transfer, incomplete statutory releases, a situation-room huddle, and a privilege memo aimed at private advisers, it is a portrait of a department organized around one client’s risk. Related money files include the مصرف أمريكا 72.5 مليون دولار و سلك (أوبس) وصل إلى مخبأ (ماكسويل) الجديد- دفع المصارف لإغلاق الملفات المدنية. العدالة لن تفتح القانون

Trump’s name appears throughout the archive at a volume no serious reader can call incidental. The two men moved through the same New York rooms for more than a decade. That history is why Bondi’s firing cannot be separated from the files no matter how many times Blanche says the words. Readers who want the rest of this beat can stay on The AEGIS Alliance السياسة و أخبار الجريمة مكاتب أغسطس 8 غيرت العنوان في 3 سبتمبر أظهرت اللجنة أنه لا يزال لا يمكنها الحصول على النائب العام الجديد في كرسي التحالف سيبقي الإنكار، صوت الفجر، والكرسي الفارغ على نفس الصفحة حتى يوجد السجل أو المحكمة العليا تقول أن القضبان يمكنها البقاء