“Five months ago, Todd Blanche was asked at his Senate confirmation hearing whether being President Donald Trump’s lawyer in his hush money trial and other cases meant he would have a ‘continuing duty of loyalty and confidentiality’ to his former client even after becoming deputy attorney general,” the Washington Post reports.
“Yes,” Blanche responded, citing his “attorney-client relationship with President Trump.”
“Now that loyalty — and the question of a potential conflict of interest — has become a key component of the questions swirling about Trump’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged with sex trafficking and died in prison in 2019. The second-ranking Justice Department official is at the center of a controversial effort to reexamine the Epstein case, the results of which could reopen high-stakes litigation that concluded years ago and play a role in defining aspects of Trump’s legacy.”
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