{"id":155622,"date":"2026-08-04T17:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T17:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155622"},"modified":"2026-08-04T17:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T17:24:13","slug":"trumps-former-lawyer-advances-in-attorney-general-bid-after-deal-with-republican-holdouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155622","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s former lawyer advances in attorney general bid after deal with Republican holdouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostUS senators voted along party lines on Tuesday to advance US President Donald Trump\u2019s former personal lawyer as attorney general after he formally scrapped a controversial US$1.8 billion fund created through the administration\u2019s settlement of a lawsuit brought by the president.<br \/>\nTodd Blanche, who became deputy attorney general after Trump took office, has been serving as acting attorney general since his predecessor, Pam Bondi, resigned in April.<br \/>\nThe closely scrutinised Senate Judiciary Committee&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/us\/diplomacy\/article\/3362976\/trumps-former-lawyer-advances-attorney-general-bid-after-deal-republican-holdouts?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostUS senators voted along party lines on Tuesday to advance US President Donald Trump\u2019s former personal lawyer as attorney general after he formally scrapped&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155622"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}