BREAKING: Trump Melts Down and Threatens to Yank Blanches Nomination After His Own Party.... [1fSabH2y5lY]
BREAKING: Trump Melts Down and Threatens to Yank Blanche's Nomination After His Own Party Refuses to Cave Trump's grand plan to install his personal lawyer as attorney general is falling apart in real time, and now he's threatening to blow the whole thing up himself. On Thursday, Trump said he may pull Todd Blanche's nomination entirely rather than give an inch to the Republicans standing in his way. That's not strength. That's a tantrum. Just a day earlier, the Senate Judiciary Committee postponed Blanche's vote because two Republicans, John Cornyn and Thom Tillis, refused to fall in line. They wanted written assurances about Trump's controversial tax deal, and the administration refused to put anything on paper. So the vote collapsed. Instead of negotiating like the dealmaker he claims to be, Trump's response is to grab his ball and threaten to go home. Pulling the nomination doesn't make him look tough. It makes him look cornered by members of his own party who finally decided they'd had enough. And here's the part that stings the most. Even if he yanks it, Blanche can stay on as acting attorney general, meaning this entire meltdown accomplishes nothing except showing the country that Trump couldn't get his own Senate to give him what he wanted. The man who built his brand on winning just spent two days losing to his own side, and his big solution is to threaten to quit the fight he started.