The chaos around the nomination of Todd Blanche for President Donald Trump’s attorney general left CNN’s Kaitlan Collins struggling to follow.
The situation is “remarkable,” Collins told anchor Pamela Brown, “because just 24 hours ago, the president was telling reporters in the Oval Office that he did not think there were any issues with Todd Blanche’s nomination, that he was going to sail through. And now, of course, the president is threatening to withdraw his nomination entirely should they not be able to come to an agreement with these two key Republican Senate holdouts.”
Further complicating things, said Collins, the two holdouts, Sens. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and John Cornyn (R-TX), “are going to no longer be in the Senate because of President Trump and the role that he played in ousting them from their offices. And so we’ll wait to see if the president actually follows through on that threat if they cannot come to an agreement.”
Blanche is now huddling with Cornyn and Tillis to try to come to an agreement.
“It’s a dicey situation and a delicate one, because obviously, part of what’s at the heart of this and that John Cornyn wants clarification on is what President Trump is benefiting from in this agreement, which is to shield him from retroactive IRS investigation after his tax returns were leaked, obviously, during his first term in office,” said Collins.
Ultimately, she added, this is “not just an easy threat for Trump to make.”
“He’s saying he’ll just renominate Todd Blanche at a later date, once Thom Tillis and John Cornyn are out of the Senate,” said Collins. But “it is not guaranteed … that those would be better conditions for this White House. It is a gamble, and the administration does know that.”
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