{"id":268551,"date":"2026-06-16T15:43:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/268551\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T15:43:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:43:43","slug":"new-york-times-editorial-board-utterly-trashes-new-trump-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/268551\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Editorial Board Utterly Trashes New Trump Nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times editorial board pulled no punches with its blunt call on Monday for the Senate to reject <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s nomination of Todd Blanche to become his next attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>In a scathing editorial headlined \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/15\/opinion\/blanche-confirmation-trump-attorney-general.html\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Todd Blanche Is Unfit For Office\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6a31047ce4b04478a062cca6\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/15\/opinion\/blanche-confirmation-trump-attorney-general.html\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Todd Blanche Is Unfit For Office<\/a>,\u201d the newspaper\u2019s board noted four ways in which the president\u2019s former personal lawyer, who has been acting AG since the firing of Pam Bondi in April, \u201chad disqualified himself\u201d from the permanent gig.<\/p>\n<p>It slammed his celebration of the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and accused him of misleading Congress, violating Justice Department ethics standards and debasing the Justice Department, and of helping to \u201cundermine its post-Watergate commitment to independence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blanche \u201chas not only helped turn the department into an instrument of Mr. Trump\u2019s will, but has said he sees nothing wrong in doing so,\u201d it wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Times editorial board pulled no punches with its blunt call on Monday for the Senate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153,9,11,10,980,52861],"class_list":["post-268551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-donald-trump","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-times","tag-todd-blanche"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}