Trump Plans to Nominate Todd Blanche as Permanent Attorney General

President Donald Trump announced on June 4, 2026, that he intends to nominate acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to permanently lead the Department of Justice. Trump made the announcement in a video shared by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino. Blanche has been serving in the role on an interim basis since the firing of former Attorney General Pam Bondi in early April. In the video, Trump stated, "Tomorrow I'm instructing Dan [Scavino] and everybody else that's involved in that very complicated process, which is gonna go, I think, very quickly, that we are going to make him permanent Attorney General."