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2026年7月15日，在华盛顿特区国会山举行的参议院司法委员会听证会上，美国代理司法部长托德·布兰奇准备就其司法部长提名作证。布伦丹·斯米亚洛夫斯基/法新社/盖蒂图片社
美国总统唐纳德·特朗普表示，鉴于两名共和党参议员的反对，他不反对暂时撤回托德·布兰奇作为其司法部长提名人选。
特朗普称，他将在得克萨斯州参议员约翰·科宁和北卡罗来纳州参议员汤姆·蒂利斯于明年离开参议院后，重新提名布兰奇。
“如果他们不做正确的事，我不反对暂时撤回托德的提名，并在科宁和蒂利斯卸任后重新提名他，”特朗普在Truth社交平台上写道。
特朗普的这一表态让布兰奇的提名处境更加岌岌可危，也加剧了本届政府与共和党议员之间的争端，争端围绕一项颇具争议的18亿美元“反武器化”基金以及一项为特朗普及其家人免受税务问题相关政府调查的协议展开。
此前，科宁和蒂利斯已明确表示，如果政府不采取措施取消该基金和和解协议，他们将不会支持布兰奇的提名，而没有他们的支持，提名无法推进。针对特朗普的声明，科宁周四暗示，反对声音不止他们两人。
“如果总统认为对其税务诉讼和解条款的担忧仅局限于我和蒂利斯参议员，那他就错了，”他写道。
周四早些时候，科宁指责白宫阻碍了一项帮助布兰奇获得确认的协议。周三晚间，由于科宁和蒂利斯的反对，参议院司法委员会被迫推迟推进提名的投票，布兰奇的提名遭遇重大挫折。
“我认为如果只是我和托德·布兰奇之间的问题，我们本可以解决。但显然他遭到了白宫高层的反对。我不知道是谁，但这事本不必这么难，”科宁周四表示，他拒绝透露自己所指的白宫官员是谁。
蒂利斯在特朗普发布Truth社交平台帖子前对记者表示：“这与布兰奇无关。布兰奇一直在真诚谈判。有其他人在从中作梗，我认为不是总统。”
特朗普则对科宁和蒂利斯展开了严厉批评，这两人在持续数周的与政府的争执中拒绝支持布兰奇。
“来自得克萨斯州的约翰·科宁和来自北卡罗来纳州的汤姆·蒂利斯，我都拒绝为他们背书，我的表态也断送了他们的政治生涯，如今他们拒绝投票支持这位伟大的提名人选，无论如何，他都将继续担任代理职务，”总统写道。“记住，科宁和蒂利斯都曾投票支持梅里克·加兰，还有其他不胜枚举的人。”
这些共和党反对者正要求特朗普的前私人律师布兰奇以书面形式确认，这项作为特朗普及其部分成年子女和企业起诉美国国税局和解协议一部分设立的“反武器化”基金，无法被重新设立。
科宁还明确表示，他希望布兰奇澄清该和解协议中提供税务豁免的附加条款，明确其仅适用于针对总统及诉讼所列人员的既往税务调查。
这些要求让布兰奇陷入两难境地：对税务附加条款设置限制可能会激怒总统。
一位知情人士透露，尽管司法部已就如何实现这一点提交了多个方案，但截至目前，科宁认为所有提议都不足以让他满意。
这位得克萨斯州共和党人表示，他以为自己在周三晚间提交的提案中已“做出让步”，但他称“今早得知此事完全泡汤”。
在他的反提案中，科宁表示他“提供了一些无需修改和解协议本身的额外文件”。
参议院司法委员会主席查克·格拉斯利周四在特朗普发布Truth社交平台帖子前表示，他仍打算推动布兰奇在委员会获得通过。
“我不知道具体何时能实现，但我们将努力解决分歧，”他补充道。
特朗普称目前担任代理司法部长的布兰奇是“明星”，并表示他“有可能成为有史以来最伟大的司法部长之一”。
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Trump says he’s open to temporarily withdrawing Blanche nomination amid GOP resistance
2026-07-30T15:28:53.402Z / CNN
By Kevin Liptak, Alison Main, Manu Raju, Hannah Rabinowitz
Updated 5 min ago
Updated Jul 30, 2026, 11:56 AM ET
PUBLISHED Jul 30, 2026, 11:28 AM ET
Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche prepares to testify during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination to be Attorney General, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on July 15, 2026.
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President Donald Trump says he wouldn’t object to temporarily withdrawing Todd Blanche as his nominee for attorney general amid resistance from two Republican senators.
Trump said he would then renominate Blanche after Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina have left the Senate in the new year.
“I have no objection to temporarily withdrawing Todd’s name, if they do not do the right thing, and putting him back after Cornyn and Tillis are out of office,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Trump’s announcement puts Blanche’s nomination in even further peril, escalating a battle between the administration and GOP lawmakers over a controversial $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund and an agreement that shields Trump and his family from government action over tax issues.
Already, Cornyn and Tillis had signaled they were unwilling to support Blanche’s nomination if the administration would not take action to unwind the fund and settlement agreement, and the nomination cannot move forward without their support. And responding to Trump’s announcement, Cornyn suggested Thursday they were not alone.
“POTUS is mistaken if he believes concerns about the provisions in his tax lawsuit settlement are limited to me and Senator Tillis,” he wrote.
Earlier on Thursday, Cornyn had accused the White House of standing in the way of a deal to help Blanche win confirmation. The nomination hit a major setback Wednesday evening when the Senate Judiciary Committee was forced to postpone a vote to advance it amid resistance from Cornyn and Tillis.
“I think if this were just between me and Todd Blanche, we would have worked this out. But apparently he’s getting some pushback from higher ups at the White House. I don’t know who, but this doesn’t need to be this hard,” Cornyn said on Thursday, declining to say who at the White House he was referring to.
Tillis, speaking to reporters before Trump’s Truth Social post, said: “This is not about Blanche. Blanche is negotiating in good faith. We have somebody else in the way, and I don’t believe it’s the president.”
For his part, Trump unleashed harsh criticism of Cornyn and Tillis, who have refused to back Blanche in the weeks-long battle with the administration.
“John Cornyn, of Texas, and Thom Tillis, of North Carolina, both of whom I refused to Endorse, and whose political careers have been ended by my action, are refusing to vote for this Great Nominee, who will remain, in any event, as Acting,” the president wrote. “Remember, both Cornyn and Tillis voted for Merrick Garland, and others, too numerous to mention.”
The GOP holdouts are pushing Blanche, Trump’s former personal attorney, to confirm in writing that the anti-weaponization fund, which was created as part of an agreement to settle a lawsuit from Trump, some of his adult children and his businesses against the IRS, cannot be recreated.
Cornyn has also been clear he wants Blanche to clarify an addendum to that agreement which offers tax immunity, which would make explicit that it only applies to past tax investigations against the president and those listed on the lawsuit.
The demands have left Blanche in a difficult place, as putting limits on the tax addendum could anger the president.
One source familiar said that while the Justice Department has sent over several options on how that could be accomplished, Cornyn has so far found each of those proposals are not enough to satisfy him.
The Texas Republican said he thought he had “met in the middle” with the administration in a proposal he sent Wednesday evening, but he said he “heard this morning that that was all off.”
In his counterproposal, Cornyn said he “provided some additional documentation that did not require changing the release itself.”
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley said on Thursday prior to Trump’s Truth Social post that it remains his “intention” to get Blanche through his panel.
“Exactly when that can happen, I don’t know, but we’re going to work hard to get the differences worked out,” he continued.
Trump called Blanche, who’s currently serving as acting attorney general, a “STAR,” and said he “has the potential to go down as one of the Greatest Attorney Generals of All Time.”
This story has been updated with additional developments.