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{"id":26696,"date":"2026-07-31T13:17:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T13:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-needles-cornyn-as-blanche-remains-blocked\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T13:17:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T13:17:36","slug":"trump-needles-cornyn-as-blanche-remains-blocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-needles-cornyn-as-blanche-remains-blocked\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump needles Cornyn as Blanche remains blocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump goaded John Cornyn on social media Friday morning, accusing the Texas senator of withholding his vote on Todd Blanche\u2019s attorney general nomination in retaliation for Trump\u2019s central role in his political demise.<\/p>\n<p>Cornyn, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/05\/26\/paxton-wins-texas-senate-runoff-00937454\" target=\"_blank\">who lost his May primary to Texas\u2019 scandal-ridden attorney general<\/a>, the Trump-endorsed Ken Paxton, has threatened to block Blanche\u2019s nomination in the Senate Judiciary Committee until the White House promises to permanently shelve its $1.8 billion \u201canti-weaponization fund\u201d in writing \u2014 something Trump appears unwilling to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohn Cornyn never had a problem with the so called \u201cFund,\u201d which will not benefit me, but rather the great American Patriots who were hunted down like dogs and whose lives were unfairly and illegally destroyed by the Crooked Joe Biden Administration, until after I decided to Endorse and Support his Republican Primary opponent in Texas, who easily won the Nomination for the United States Senate,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117014253232654593\" target=\"_blank\">Trump wrote on Truth Social<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/06\/02\/todd-blanche-anti-weaponization-fund-00947083\" target=\"_blank\">Republicans bristled at the fund<\/a>, which could have been deployed to compensate Americans who faced charges after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and which gives the president and his family audit immunity over taxes. At his July confirmation hearing, Blanche said that the fund, part of a settlement the president reached with the IRS, was defunct. But the administration has been \u201creluctant to change\u201d the text of the settlement, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/07\/30\/congress\/john-cornyn-doj-offer-blanche-01016997\" target=\"_blank\">Cornyn told reporters Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump signaled his continued support for the Jan 6 rioters on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will always feel that these victims of government abuse should be paid back for what they were forced to endure, their lives have been ruined!\u201d he wrote. \u201cMillions of people agree with me, as was proven in my landslide Presidential win, where this was a major subject of debate, and so did John Cornyn, until he lost his Election to an opponent that I Endorsed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/07\/30\/trump-blanche-acting-nomination-01017021\" target=\"_blank\">suggested that he could punt a Senate<\/a> vote on Blanche until after Cornyn \u2014 and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) \u2014 leaves the chamber at the end of the year. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JohnCornyn\/status\/2082851774143021356\" target=\"_blank\">Cornyn, however, suggested on social media<\/a> that there are other Republican senators with concerns about the fund.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the midterms, who knows who\u2019s going to be the next United States senator from North Carolina or Texas?\u201d Cornyn told reporters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump goaded John Cornyn on social media Friday morning, accusing the Texas senator of withholding his vote on Todd Blanche\u2019s attorney general nomination in retaliation for Trump\u2019s central role in his political demise. Cornyn, who lost his May primary to Texas\u2019 scandal-ridden attorney general, the Trump-endorsed Ken Paxton, has threatened to block Blanche\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}