{"id":152396,"date":"2026-05-19T15:21:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T23:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/19\/president-trumps-personal-lawyer-todd-blanche-reminds-everyone-that-he-is-trumps-personal-lawyer\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T15:21:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T23:21:04","slug":"president-trumps-personal-lawyer-todd-blanche-reminds-everyone-that-he-is-trumps-personal-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/19\/president-trumps-personal-lawyer-todd-blanche-reminds-everyone-that-he-is-trumps-personal-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump\u2019s Personal Lawyer Todd Blanche, Reminds Everyone That He Is TRUMP\u2019S PERSONAL LAWYER"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a lot to unpack from Todd Blanche\u2019s Senate testimony \u2014 up to and including his unwillingness to address the fact that child molesters<\/a> are dangling the promise of new January 6 slush fund cash to silence victims \u2014 but one heated exchange with Senator Van Hollen more or less sums up the general air of buffoonery that Blanche brings to the Department of Justice:<\/p>\n

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Blanche: I am the Acting Attorney General! The fact that I used to be President Trump\u2019s lawyer is just a fact. DON\u2019T SAY THE PRESIDENT\u2019S FORMER LAWYER WILL DO SOMETHING\u2014SAY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL WILL DO SOMETHING! pic.twitter.com\/cVBj23YYAP<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Acyn (@Acyn) May 19, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

To be fair, Lionel Putz here correctly said \u201cActing Attorney General,\u201d making clear that his current title is a lot more ephemeral than his last one.<\/p>\n

This is what we call the Streisand Effect. In internet parlance, the Streisand Effect refers to, as Urban Dictionary defines it<\/a>, \u201cA social phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide, remove, or censor\u00a0information\u00a0has the unintended consequence of further publicizing that\u00a0information.\u201d Senator Van Hollen flagged the fact that Blanche has a longstanding attorney-client relationship with Donald Trump as a serious conflict of interest now that Trump represents the IRS \u2014 claiming to be adverse to Trump personally, unitary executive theory be damned \u2014 in a settlement that gives Blanche unchecked authority to distribute almost $2 billion in taxpayer dollars to January 6 rioters. We have a lot of rules set up to avoid lawyers representing clients against former clients. Blanche disregards these because this case \u2014 from the start \u2014 was just a shifting blob faking an adversarial posture when convenient and dropping it just as quickly when it wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

The arrangement setting up this slush fund purports to be based on Keepseagle v. Vilsack<\/em>, a compensation fund designed to redress multiple cases of Department of Agriculture discrimination against Native Americans. This current deal rests on slightly different footing seeing as it\u2019s not designed to cure individual victims of a class action, but rather to hand out cash without oversight to random Trump supporters. Indeed the only thing even vaguely connecting this case to Keepseagle<\/em> is that they\u2019re almost assuredly going to hand the QAnon Shaman<\/a> wads of taxpayer money.<\/p>\n

Another reason why the fund shouldn\u2019t be at the unilateral command of the president\u2019s personal lawyer. Senator Van Hollen\u2019s questioning about Blanche\u2019s past work for Trump wasn\u2019t trolling, it struck upon core ethical principles \u2014 the kind that the DOJ now threatens licensing authorities not to enforce<\/a>. No matter how much Blanche yells, getting a new title doesn\u2019t not absolve an attorney of their ethical obligations to a former client. Trump\u2019s IRS suit is predicated on issues that existed while Blanche represented him personally, and there\u2019s zero indication that Blanche wasn\u2019t consulted on potential litigation surrounding that leak. Rather than calmly explain that he is appointing a deputy flunky to handle the fund to avoid any conflicts, Blanche decides to create a perfectly viral sound bite of himself losing his shit and repeating that he is, in fact, Trump\u2019s former personal lawyer. <\/p>\n

Just weapons grade stupid on parade down there.<\/p>\n

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\"Headshot\"Joe Patrice<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. Feel free to\u00a0email<\/a> any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or Bluesky<\/a> if you\u2019re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post President Trump\u2019s Personal Lawyer Todd Blanche, Reminds Everyone That He Is TRUMP\u2019S PERSONAL LAWYER<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a lot to unpack from Todd Blanche\u2019s Senate testimony \u2014 up to and including his unwillingness to address the fact that child molesters<\/a> are dangling the promise of new January 6 slush fund cash to silence victims \u2014 but one heated exchange with Senator Van Hollen more or less sums up the general air of buffoonery that Blanche brings to the Department of Justice:<\/p>\n

To be fair, Lionel Putz here correctly said \u201cActing Attorney General,\u201d making clear that his current title is a lot more ephemeral than his last one.<\/p>\n

This is what we call the Streisand Effect. In internet parlance, the Streisand Effect refers to, as Urban Dictionary defines it<\/a>, \u201cA social phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide, remove, or censor\u00a0information\u00a0has the unintended consequence of further publicizing that\u00a0information.\u201d Senator Van Hollen flagged the fact that Blanche has a longstanding attorney-client relationship with Donald Trump as a serious conflict of interest now that Trump represents the IRS \u2014 claiming to be adverse to Trump personally, unitary executive theory be damned \u2014 in a settlement that gives Blanche unchecked authority to distribute almost $2 billion in taxpayer dollars to January 6 rioters. We have a lot of rules set up to avoid lawyers representing clients against former clients. Blanche disregards these because this case \u2014 from the start \u2014 was just a shifting blob faking an adversarial posture when convenient and dropping it just as quickly when it wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

The arrangement setting up this slush fund purports to be based on Keepseagle v. Vilsack<\/em>, a compensation fund designed to redress multiple cases of Department of Agriculture discrimination against Native Americans. This current deal rests on slightly different footing seeing as it\u2019s not designed to cure individual victims of a class action, but rather to hand out cash without oversight to random Trump supporters. Indeed the only thing even vaguely connecting this case to Keepseagle<\/em> is that they\u2019re almost assuredly going to hand the QAnon Shaman<\/a> wads of taxpayer money.<\/p>\n

Another reason why the fund shouldn\u2019t be at the unilateral command of the president\u2019s personal lawyer. Senator Van Hollen\u2019s questioning about Blanche\u2019s past work for Trump wasn\u2019t trolling, it struck upon core ethical principles \u2014 the kind that the DOJ now threatens licensing authorities not to enforce<\/a>. No matter how much Blanche yells, getting a new title doesn\u2019t not absolve an attorney of their ethical obligations to a former client. Trump\u2019s IRS suit is predicated on issues that existed while Blanche represented him personally, and there\u2019s zero indication that Blanche wasn\u2019t consulted on potential litigation surrounding that leak. Rather than calmly explain that he is appointing a deputy flunky to handle the fund to avoid any conflicts, Blanche decides to create a perfectly viral sound bite of himself losing his shit and repeating that he is, in fact, Trump\u2019s former personal lawyer. <\/p>\n

Just weapons grade stupid on parade down there.<\/p>\n

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\"Headshot\"Joe Patrice<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. Feel free to\u00a0email<\/a> any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or Bluesky<\/a> if you\u2019re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a lot to unpack from Todd Blanche\u2019s Senate testimony \u2014 up to and including his unwillingness to address the fact that child molesters are dangling the promise of new January 6 slush fund cash to silence victims \u2014 but one heated exchange with Senator Van Hollen more or less sums up the general air […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}