{"id":383099,"date":"2026-04-05T11:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/383099\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T11:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:37:27","slug":"what-to-know-about-acting-attorney-general-todd-blanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/383099\/","title":{"rendered":"What to know about Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">President Donald Trump has named Todd Blanche as the acting attorney general for the US after removing Pam Bondi from the top law enforcement position. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">Trump praised Bondi in a post on Truth Social and said she would be &#8220;transitioning&#8221; to a role in the private sector. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">Before becoming the number two at the justice department, Blanche was Trump&#8217;s personal lawyer and defended him in a range of cases including his federal prosecution for allegedly withholding classified documents after his first presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump has named Todd Blanche as the acting attorney general for the US after removing Pam&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-383099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}