President-elect Donald Trump tapped his personal attorneys Todd Blanche and Emil Bove on Thursday to serve in the second and third most powerful positions in the Department of Justice.
Trump selected Blanche to serve as deputy attorney general and Bove to serve as principal associate deputy attorney general.
Trump praised the pair’s legal backgrounds in a statement, saying they would both be “crucial” to fulfilling his vision for the DOJ. Blanche and Bove both once worked in top roles in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, and both were at the helm of Trump’s defense team for his hush money case in New York.
Trump was…
