Blanche is Trump’s former personal criminal defense lawyer, and he has run the Justice Department like it never stopped being his client’s defense team. He engineered the settlement where Trump sued his own IRS, and Blanche’s DOJ settled it by creating a $1.776 billion fund — the January 6 rallying number, not a coincidence — that he personally controls the commission appointing, with virtually no judicial oversight. He’s pursued Comey through three separate indictments, one dismissed for an improperly appointed prosecutor, one built on a photo of seashells now facing its own illegal-surveillance scandal. He testified to Congress that Comey’s daughter Maurene — fired days after securing a major conviction — was let go “pursuant to Article II,” a constitutional fig leaf for what looks like retaliation by proximity. An Attorney General is supposed to represent the United States. Blanche has never stopped representing the man who appointed him.