Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche despatched a series of memos to Justice Department staffers Thursday marking his first official day working the company.
In a memo to the staff obtained by NCS, he wrote, “Our mission here at the Department remains the same today as it was yesterday. President Trump has promised a safe American and will continue to deliver on that promise.”
He additionally thanked former Attorney General Pam Bondi “for her friendship, service, and selfless dedication to our department and country.”
In a separate memo to his staff within the deputy lawyer normal’s workplace he revealed he’ll formally transfer into the lawyer normal’s fifth flooring workplace on Monday.
Blanche additionally on Thursday introduced a number of staffing modifications in his workplace — tapping two loyal staffers to key roles. The appearing lawyer normal posted on X that Trent McCotter will now function principal affiliate deputy lawyer normal and that Colin McDonald, who at the moment serves as assistant lawyer normal of the Justice Department’s new fraud division, will even proceed to assist in the deputy lawyer normal’s workplace whereas persevering with his work in his different position.
Bondi was knowledgeable by President Donald Trump final Wednesday, throughout the brief drive from the White House to the Supreme Court, that she was being removed as attorney general, NCS reported.
“Nobody has any idea why the attorney general is no longer the attorney general and I’m the acting attorney general except for President Trump,” Blanche mentioned at his first public press convention Tuesday.
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