Todd Blanche declines pledging to run DOJ independent of Trump

“No attorney general should ever pledge that,” Blanche, newly confirmed to lead the Justice Department, said.

US attorney general says no one in his role ‘should ever’ make this vow amid concern over Trump steering DoJ US attorney general Todd Blanche on Sunday declined to assure that the federal justice department he helms would always act independently of the White House and Donald Trump. “No, I’m not going to pledge that,”