Durbin says Blanche told him DOJ anti-weaponization fund was 'a mistake'

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Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) says acting Attorney General Todd Blanche called the Trump administration's $1.776 billion anti-weaponization fund “a mistake” in what the senator described as a courtesy meeting before Wednesday’s hearing to review Blanche's nomination to lead the Justice Department.

According to Durbin, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, when outrage over...