Blanche defends reflecting pool prosecutor who angered Trump | Fortune0

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• August 17, 2026

US Attorney General Todd Blanche defended Jeanine Pirro for dismissing a federal vandalism case in a decision that angered President Donald Trump, saying the top prosecutor in Washington, DC, should be judged fairly. Blanche, a former personal lawyer for Trump who was sworn in last week as head of the Justice Department, took Pirro’s side