WASHINGTON — US President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday (Nov 14) picked three members of his criminal defence team, including lead attorney Todd Blanche, to serve in senior roles at the Justice Department.

Trump nominated Blanche, who defended him at trial in 2024 in a criminal case over hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels, to serve as deputy attorney-general, the second-highest position at the Justice Department.

"Todd is an excellent attorney who will be a crucial leader in the Justice Department, fixing what has been a broken system of justice for far too long," Trump said in a statement.

The deputy attorney-general provides day-to-day supervision of the more than 110,000 employees of the Justice Department and also oversees the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other investigative agencies.

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