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From Trump’s Attorney to Attorney General: The Rise of Todd Blanche
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The Big Bet: Leaving His Firm to Go All In With Trump
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The most consequential fork in Blanche's road came after the 2020 election. Trump looked finished. His legal team was in disarray, his political brand damaged. Most lawyers with options would have quietly moved on. Instead, Blanche insisted on staying — over the explicit objections of his own firm's leadership. He broke from the firm, founded his own, and tied his professional fate entirely to Donald Trump's political resurrection. [1] — Glenn Thrush "After Trump lost in 2020, Blanche had every reason to walk away. Instead, he defied his firm's leadership, started his own firm, and threw …" 05:03 Thrush frames this as more than loyalty: it was a calculated bet born from what he calls 'FOMO' — the fear of missing out on a historic moment. Not everyone gets to represent a former president. Blanche was willing to sacrifice a comfortable, successful career for the chance at something larger. And in Trump's world, the willingness to take that kind of risk in a dark hour is the truest measure of a person's worth.
During his representation of Trump, Blanche switched from the Democratic to the Republican Party and relocated to Florida, near Mar-a-Lago.
Blanche's strategy for Trump's federal cases was almost comically simple: delay. File brief after brief, run the clock toward the 2024 election, write legal documents like campaign social media posts. It doesn't seem sophisticated — but it worked. The cases were ultimately thrown out.
