Image: Todd Blanche, the US attorney general, speaks before Donald Trump at the David Mack Center for Training and Intelligence in Garden City, New York, on 14 August. Photograph: Yuki Iwamura/AP

Michael Sainato of The Guardian reports: “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,” he said when asked about the topic by NBC’s Meet the Press host, Kristen Welker. “And no attorney general should ever pledge that.”

Blanche also claimed Trump would never ask him to do something that crosses an ethical or legal line – after the president dismissed his predecessor, Pam Bondi, having become frustrated over insufficient action from the justice department against Trump’s political foes…”

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