Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, has helped usher in President Trump’s retribution campaign. But he faces anger on the right for resisting some of the most extreme measures.
Court papers show that Brian Cole Jr.’s lawyers might seek to blame a former Capitol Police officer whose name first surfaced in a right-wing media account and whom the F.B.I. briefly investigated.
Officials at the department and the White House are in the middle of a messy and complicated debate over how to respond to President Trump’s lawsuit demanding $10 billion from the I.R.S.