Trump Picks Todd Blanche, His Defense Lawyer, to Be Deputy Attorney General NYT | Top Stories Devlin Barrett 15 November 2024 at 07:25 Mr. Blanche, a former supervising federal prosecutor in Manhattan, oversaw the president-elect’s legal defense against multiple indictments. © Todd Heisler/The New York TimesDonald J. Trump with Todd Blanche outside court in New York, where Mr. Blanche was the president-elect’s defense lawyer.