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Trump’s Blanche Check

An extremely candid conversation with Andrew Weissmann, the former lead prosecutor in the Mueller investigation, about Trump’s slush fund, the Comey indictment, and a man for whom he has special loathing: acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.

Andrew Weissmann
Andrew Weissmann in New York City, January 2023. Photo: Nina Westervelt/Variety/Getty Images
John Heilemann
June 10, 2026

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This week, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, President Trump’s former personal attorney, finally got his heart’s desire: an official nomination for the job. Blanche had worked hard for it, after all. He was a central figure in promoting and defending Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund for supposed victims of Biden-era “weaponization”—including duly tried and jury-convicted January 6 rioters—in addition to being one of the brains behind Trump’s efforts to wriggle out of the Epstein mess, as new details in The New York Times make clear.