New Delhi, June 4 -- US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would move to nominate Todd Blanche, the acting US Attorney General, to permanently lead the Justice Department. This would make Trump's former personal lawyer the US's top law enforcement officer.

"He's acting attorney general. Tomorrow. I'm instructing Dan (Scavino) and everybody else that's involved in that very complicated process - which is going to go, I think, very quickly - that we are going to make him permanent attorney general," Trump said at a White House event, according to a video posted on X late on Wednesday by his aide Scavino.

Reacting to news that President Trump intends to formally nominate him to the job full-time, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch...