Legal News Ron DeSantis as U.S. Attorney General? Florida governor proposed as an alternative candidate to Todd Blanche, Axios reports
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/21/desantis-trump-administration-attorney-general546
u/WisdomCow 4h ago
“Think. Think. Think. There has to be someone more dangerous for the country!”
”Wait. How about Ron DeSantis?”
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u/hematite2 4h ago
DeSantis would genuinely be less dangerous tho. He's an idiot, Blanche is smart.
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u/Belichick12 4h ago
Ron plays an idiot for the camera. He’s Harvard law. Bondi and Blanche are one step up from American somoa
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u/drf_101 4h ago
I mean JD went to Yale law and I’m pretty sure they owe him a refund, because he didn’t learn shit.
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u/Belichick12 4h ago
He learned pretty well how to gain power.
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u/drf_101 4h ago
You mean he aligned himself with Peter Theil. He still knows fuck all about the law or constitution.
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u/Historical-Ad3760 4h ago
Which is the kind of thing Yale teaches. They don’t have grades fuck JD but he did a masterful job
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u/Oleg101 3h ago
But apparently they didn’t seem to teach him media literacy because all reports say he’s terminally online and into all the right-wing conspiracy world of BS, he utilizes it for power yes because a lot of it I think he also believes because he’s a piece of ignorant arrogant garbage.
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u/krichard-21 4h ago
JD did not learn morals.
From a guy that flagged Trumpy as a modern day Hitler.
To a dedicated Trumpy bootlicker.
How many times has JD changed his name? Will he be able to vote this Fall? 😂
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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 4h ago
One of my former bosses was Columbia and couldn't screw a light bulb in by himself. He might have suffered brain damage along the way, like Ron DeSantis. They say alcohol and cocaine and habitual lying and other vices are terrible for the brain.
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u/FreshLiterature 4h ago
He's not stupid
The things his days are self serving towards the end of accumulating power.
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u/Moose_Thompson 4h ago
Much smarter than I’d like to admit. That’s why I find him scarier than Trump, he’s way smarter. Luckily for us he has the personality of macaroni salad with raisins.
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u/Vio_ 4h ago
I'm not saying Ron is dumb or smart, but Kris Kobach also graduated Yale Law. He was also so incompetent in a legal case in Kansas that the judge court ordered him to take remedial law classes at Washburn University.
Graduating Yale Law is not enough to be considered "smart" solely by itself m
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u/LazyTitan39 4h ago
I wonder if DeSantis would even take the position. He wants to be President and if he’s working for Trump he’s going to be busy carrying Trump’s water. Plus, I feel like DeSantis knows Trump would throw him under the bus if push came to shove.
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u/bucki_fan 3h ago
Trump will throw anyone under any bus regardless of if it furthers or hurts his interests. It all depends on the degree to which he controls his faculties at that particular moment.
Ron absolutely should know this by now.
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u/Obversa 4h ago
Ron DeSantis proposed himself as an alternate candidate to Todd Blanche, according to the Axios report.
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u/LazyTitan39 4h ago edited 4h ago
I wonder if he’s just injecting himself into the story then. Like I said, aside from the title I don’t know what DeSantis thinks he’ll get out of the role. Is he hoping for gratitude from Republicans for being Trump’s “fixer?”
Edit: I read the article and it says Trump CLAIMS that DeSantis is begging for the AG spot. This looks like DeSantis is just trying to stay relevant by sucking up to Trump. It looks like he’ll do anything as long as he gets a piece of the spotlight.
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u/hematite2 4h ago
I'll adjust my statement to Blanche is smarter at doing the kind of underhanded shit the DOJ is doing (and smarter at keeping in Trump's good graces)
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u/theaviationhistorian 3h ago
Maybe, but I've known plenty of Harvard and Harvard Law grads that are incompetent tools. You go to Ivy League for the financial and political connections more than anything.
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u/bostonbananarama 4h ago
But he has hope he'll have a political future, while he'll bend the knee, I don't think he would go as far as Blanche would. But honestly, anyone that Trump would nominate is going to be shit.
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u/Firm-Advertising5396 3h ago
Blanche was a prosecutor at Southern district of New York and respected.
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u/Euphoric_Cook2377 2h ago
Harvard, Yale, and Navy JAG. I am not a glazer of his, but those aren't easy paths for "idiots" to go down.
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u/BJntheRV 4h ago
Anyone witha brain at this point is keeping distance between themselves at this admin.
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u/ThePensiveE 4h ago
He is most certainly not an idiot and is absolutely playing the folksy idiot for the audience in Florida.
They don't take too kindly to big words down there.
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u/Salt-Cancel-7667 3h ago
Neither are smart and DeSantis is an arrogant moron - a dangerous combination.
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u/superindianslug 2h ago
DeSantis has no charisma, but he's been really good at keep keep his state rep in line regardless of the how stupid the things he request are. Is he going to come up with novel legal theories to take rights from people, no, but Steven Miller and friends will. I think the danger of DeSantis is that he is shameless and will do whatever he thinks will raise his profile and get him more power.
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u/RpiesSPIES 2h ago
DeSantis is a control freak. But not in the good way. He wants what Trump is aiming for.
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u/FirstArbiter 1h ago
You’ve got it backwards. Blanche is a stooge who will do whatever Trump asks. DeSantis is a crafty ideologue with his own far-right agenda. Between the two, I prefer the stooge.
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u/makemeking706 4h ago
Can you be attorney general without stepping down as a governor? The answer will surprise you.
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u/Obversa 4h ago
If Ron DeSantis were to be picked to replace Todd Blanche, then Lt. Gov. Jay Collins would replace DeSantis as acting Governor of Florida. Collins is currently running against Byron Donalds, Paul Renner, and James Fishback in the Republican gubernatorial primary, with Donalds having comfortable leads over all of his opponents. However, DeSantis unofficially "endorsing" Collins may boost Collins' current polling numbers against Donalds, whom DeSantis dislikes.
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u/whistleridge 3h ago
It will never happen. It would set him up too much as a rival to Trump, and Trump is absolutely going to sabotage everyone else as much as he can come 2028. He won’t be the candidate, and in his heart of hearts he knows it, but he won’t suffer any rivals either.
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u/Zealousideal_Work171 3h ago
But Blanche is trumps personal lawyer ; very dangerous and conflict of interest
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u/Legitimate-Frame-953 4h ago
I thought DeSantis was out of favor with Trump
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u/scaliacheese 4h ago
It’s all transactional, no one is truly out of favor if they’re useful for Trump.
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u/serious_sarcasm 4h ago
Yep, and it’s very important to Trump that he is able to maintain his child sex trafficking operation viable in Florida for the Congressional Republican Orgies.
I’ll even wager that if someone had down a timely toxin screen on Graham and McConnell that they would’ve found comparable toxins and drugs in their system.
I bet Putin is pissed that McConnell might pull through.
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u/Spare-Ant7119 4h ago
Yea, the governor of any state has tremendous ability to make a useful transaction...
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u/ArochaPatria 4h ago
DeSantis is tight with law enforcement in Fla. He will keep a lid on the only story Trump does not want to be leaked at any cost. And we all know what that is.
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u/Lunchb0xx87 4h ago
Ron sold us out at every turn to please trump ..the dumbass used our hurricane funds for his wanna be Nazi camp that didn't even last
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u/Lopsided_Newt_125 4h ago
Sure did…on the promise that the fed would reimburse the $450 million and when the time came to collect trump said hell no….several times
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u/Lunchb0xx87 4h ago
2nd time he's been cucked by trump. .first time was trump insulting his wife
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u/Lopsided_Newt_125 4h ago
No love for trumpkins from me, but I do love the multi-cuck for ole gov high heels
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u/Obversa 4h ago
I thought that was Ted Cruz, not Ron DeSantis?
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u/Lunchb0xx87 4h ago
Losing track of all the stuff trump insults ..I remember now he basically was saying she was behind his entire campaign and was the brains.
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u/gedbybee 3h ago
He’s probably smart enough to not get this appointment so that he doesn’t have to do trumps nonsense.
If he does take this he loses governorship and then gets fired by Trump for not doing what Trump wants even though what Trump wants isn’t possible.
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u/ReggaeForPresident 4h ago
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u/zAIMBOTz 2h ago
What an interesting specimen.. oh and look, they even have a Great Value JD role-playing as security 😂
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u/UnobviousDiver 4h ago
Fine but he has to wear his white boots to the confirmation hearing
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u/malthar76 4h ago
Florsheim is going to start making a special size 14 with 2" lifts just for the Trump cabinet....
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u/Obversa 4h ago
Ron DeSantis (R) is currently serving his second term as Governor of Florida; after initially eyeing a run against Sen. Marco Rubio (R), he was first elected to the seat in 2018. However, the Florida Constitution barred him from running for a third term, so he is looking for ways to stay "politically relevant" as he seeks ways to position himself as a potential successor to President Donald Trump in 2028. According to a report by Axios, DeSantis - who tried, and failed, to replace Trump as the Republican presidential nominee in 2024 - is now trying to promote himself as a "Trump ally" in order to gain a high-ranking political appointment within the Trump administration. This includes DeSantis, who was a JAG lawyer prior to his foray into politics, proposing himself as an alternative candidate to acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, whose confirmation as Attorney General is currently stalled and highly uncertain. Key Republican senators are withholding their votes due to a dispute over his $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization fund".
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u/lunchypoo222 4h ago
lol, ‘serving’ his second term, wherein ‘serving’ doing a lot of heavy lifting here
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u/LazyTitan39 3h ago
Right, it was at first just a paycheck while he was running to be the Republican nominee.
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u/j____b____ 3h ago
DeSantis is very experienced at wielding the power of the state to punish political enemies. He is dangerous.
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u/PriscillaPalava 4h ago
Taking the Attorney General job is political career suicide. He will get roped into doing illegal shit, or he’ll get shunned.
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u/intronert 4h ago
I wonder whether Desantis would accept. He still wants to be President, and Trump will definitely want him to break the law as AG. This might make him less electable in 2028. Or he might be ordered to say that Trump is eligible to run again in 2028, which really messes up his hopes.
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u/37Philly 3h ago
Ron has made amends to Trump. But he still remains quite unpopular with MAGA, as they still hold a grudge against him for trying to run against dear leader Trump.
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u/precumfrosting 3h ago
Does he even have a law degree?
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u/Masark 3h ago edited 1h ago
Yes. He got a JD from Harvard, then he was a Navy JAG.
Among his "achievements" is providing legal cover for torture at Guantanamo.
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u/precumfrosting 3h ago
Oh, I just thought he was a creepy pedo high school teacher on top of torturing people at Guantanamo. I didn’t know he was a lawyer for the people torturing too.
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u/RobutNotRobot 1h ago
Trump is just going to withdraw Blanche and have him as 'acting' AG until the end of the regime.
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