{"id":1187572,"date":"2026-04-03T18:13:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T01:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/?p=1187572"},"modified":"2026-09-03T11:29:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:29:29","slug":"acting-ag-todd-blanche-says-trump-ousting-pam-bondi-as-ag-had-nothing-to-do-with-epstein-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/it\/2026\/04\/03\/il-procuratore-generale-ad-interim-todd-blanche-afferma-che-la-rimozione-di-pam-bondi-dallincarico-da-parte-di-trump-non-ha-nulla-a-che-fare-con-il-caso-epstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd Blanche Is Attorney General After a 50-49 Senate Vote That Never Separated His Nomination From the Epstein Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_99087\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CX_eYFEKUh0?enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"  alt=\"Senate narrowly confirms Todd Blanche as new attorney general\"  src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/CX_eYFEKUh0\/maxresdefault.jpg\"  \/><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1187690\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Todd-Blanche-says-Trump-ousting-Bondi-as-AG-had-nothing-to-do-with-Epstein-files-1.jpg\" alt=\"Todd Blanche and the Department of Justice with Epstein files, reported by The AEGIS Alliance\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pam Bondi left the Justice Department in April 2026. Todd Blanche, already the deputy and already the president&#8217;s former criminal-defense lawyer, stepped in as acting attorney general and told the country the ouster had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;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. <a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/\">The AEGIS Alliance<\/a> is keeping both facts on the same page because official Washington keeps trying to split them.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h2>A Denial That Did Not Survive Contact With the Calendar<\/h2>\n<p>Bondi told a congressional panel on May 29 that Blanche had led the department&#8217;s review and release of the Epstein material &#8220;from the beginning.&#8221; That sentence wrecks the April talking point. If Blanche ran the project, then Bondi&#8217;s firing and Blanche&#8217;s promotion are not separate from the project. They are the project&#8217;s personnel file. <a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2026\/08\/epstein-survivors-todd-blanche-attorney-general-confirmation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">The 19th<\/a> recorded survivors calling themselves pawns in the confirmation. Liz Stein said the vote was a setback and that she was not finished. A meeting that exists only because Sen. Thom Tillis refused to move the nomination without it is not a listening session. It is a lock on a door.<\/p>\n<p>The Epstein Files Transparency Act set December 19, 2025, as the date the department had to publish the archive. Partial dumps followed into the winter. Victim names spilled onto pages that should have been protected. Then the department began talking as if the major work was done. The earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/2026\/01\/06\/doj-confesses-less-than-1-of-epstein-files-have-been-released\/\">admission that less than 1 percent of the files had been released<\/a> is still the honest baseline. Everything after that date is a fight over how much of a statute a president&#8217;s lawyer is willing to obey.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse spent July 13 listing unanswered oversight letters. The first items were Blanche&#8217;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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<h2>Two Republicans Voted No and the Caucus Still Wanted the Building<\/h2>\n<p>Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski voted against him. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/07\/us\/politics\/todd-blanche-ag-murkowski.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">The New York Times<\/a> called the night bruising. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/senate-republicans-narrowly-confirm-todd-blanche-attorney-general-2026-08-08\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Reuters<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/2026\/08\/08\/blanche-senate-confirmation-vote-attorney-general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Roll Call<\/a> listed the other objections those two senators put in writing: a $1.8 billion &#8220;anti-weaponization&#8221; 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&#8217;s pleasure. The title was optional. The caucus wanted it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s first moves after confirmation was an Office of Legal Counsel memo expanding executive privilege over talks with &#8220;private advisers.&#8221; That tool is built for the same investigation the statute already told the department to finish.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h2>Courts Did Not Wait for Sunrise<\/h2>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/2026\/07\/03\/journalist-katie-phangs-landmark-lawsuit-exposes-doj-obstruction-to-full-epstein-files-disclosure-under-trump-administration\/\">Phang v. Blanche<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/2026\/07\/02\/todd-blanche-epstein-files-deadline-acting-ag-faces-court-order-its-known-trump-and-epstein-were-best-friends-for-over-a-decade\/\">Sullivan deadline report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s Epstein and Jack Smith records out before the hearing. A D.C. judge denied that preliminary injunction on July 10. Senators voted anyway.<\/p>\n<p>New Mexico&#8217;s attorney general accused the department of obstructing a state investigation into Epstein&#8217;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&#8217;s name is already on the roll call.<\/p>\n<h2>The Client Problem Is the Job History<\/h2>\n<p>Blanche kept Trump out of jail. That is not a smear. That is the resume. Combined with Maxwell&#8217;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&#8217;s risk. Related money files include the <a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/2026\/03\/27\/bank-of-americas-epstein-victims-lawsuit-settlement-revealed-to-be-72-5-million\/\">Bank of America $72.5 million survivors deal<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/2026\/03\/29\/swiss-bank-ubs-funded-the-secluded-new-hampshire-estate-where-ghislaine-maxwell-hid-before-her-arrest\/\">UBS wire that reached Maxwell&#8217;s New Hampshire hideout<\/a>. Banks paid to close civil files. Justice still will not open the statutory one.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;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&#8217;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/category\/news\/politics\/\">politics<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/category\/news\/crime-news\/\">crime news<\/a> desks. August 8 changed the title. September 3 showed the committee still cannot get the new attorney general in a chair. The AEGIS Alliance will keep the denial, the dawn vote, and the empty chair on the same page until the log exists or a higher court says the bars can stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Blanche told the country Pam Bondi&#8217;s ouster had nothing to do with Epstein files. The Senate confirmed him 50-49 at dawn on August 8. House Oversight still wants him under oath. 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