It’s official; the $1.776 billion anti-weaponization fund is officially, on paper, dead. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has been a point of contention between President Donald Trump an the Senate since the day he was appointed acting AG. His chances of becoming the attorney general started off bad, got worse with the controversial IRS settlement, and seemed as recently as this past weekend to be practically hopeless. But then he suddenly turned it all around.
On Sunday, August 2, Blanche announced he had signed an order officially rescinding the fund and narrowing tax audit protections for the president gained in the IRS settlement. Sure enough, a representative of Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), one of two Republican holdouts on the Judiciary Committee, confirmed an agreement had been reached and that Sens. Cornyn and Thom Tillis (R-NC) now supported Blanche’s confirmation.
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