Todd Blanche speaking at the Capitol last month.

Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, during a cabinet meeting at Camp David on Friday.

President Trump reiterated his support for the so-called anti-weaponization fund in a social media post on Friday.

Todd Blanche, according to current and former officials, understands that coping with President Trump’s demands, rages and U-turns is the price to pay for rising in his orbit.

President Trump seems even less inhibited by the rules, written or unwritten, that governed his predecessors.

Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, during an appearance before the Senate appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday.

On Pam Bondi’s first day as attorney general in February 2025, she signed a directive that appeared to prohibit the kind of fund the Trump administration established this week.

The Justice Department is tapping an unlimited fund created by Congress to settle lawsuits filed against the government.

President Trump sued the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns to news media outlets, arguing that the agency should have done more to prevent the disclosures.

James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, was indicted last year by a grand jury in Virginia, accused of lying and obstructing a congressional investigation over testimony he gave in 2020. The charge was later dismissed.

Representative Eric Swalwell of California, one of President Trump’s most vocal critics in the House, said that he was being targeted by the Trump administration.

An undated photo of Jeffrey Epstein released by the Justice Department.

A photo of Jeffrey Epstein with other faces redacted by the Justice Department.

Documents released by the Justice Department directly contradict Howard Lutnick’s assertion on a podcast last year that he had decided never to be in the same room with Jeffrey Epstein again.

A crane lifting a piece of the wreckage of an American Airlines jet from the Potomac River in February.

A naturalization ceremony in Boston in August. The Trump administration has been closing loopholes in the immigration system and throwing up roadblocks for people seeking to enter and stay in the country.