{"id":7035,"date":"2026-01-29T10:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T10:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/trump-taps-colin-mcdonald-for-newly-created-role-of-assistant-attorney-general-for-fraud-enforcement\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T10:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T10:42:12","slug":"trump-taps-colin-mcdonald-for-newly-created-role-of-assistant-attorney-general-for-fraud-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/trump-taps-colin-mcdonald-for-newly-created-role-of-assistant-attorney-general-for-fraud-enforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump taps Colin McDonald for newly-created role of assistant attorney general for fraud enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">President Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated federal prosecutor Colin McDonald to serve in the newly formed role of assistant attorney general for national fraud enforcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">McDonald is currently serving as an associate deputy attorney general at the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I am pleased to nominate Colin McDonald to serve as the first ever Assistant Attorney General for National FRAUD Enforcement, a new Division at the Department of Justice, which I created to catch and stop FRAUDSTERS that have been STEALING from the American People,&#8217; Trump wrote on Truth Social.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;My Administration has uncovered Fraud schemes in States like Minnesota and California, where these thieves have stolen Hundreds of Billions of Taxpayer Dollars,&#8217; he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Trump praised McDonald as a &#8216;very smart, tough and highly respected America First federal prosecutor who has successfully delivered justice in some of the most difficult and high-stakes cases our country has ever seen.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Together, we will END THE FRAUD, and RESTORE INTEGRITY to our Federal Programs. Congratulations Colin \u2014 STOP THE SCAMS!&#8217; the president wrote.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald has been serving in the office of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who said McDonald was &#8216;instrumental&#8217; in the federal government&#8217;s efforts to curb crime across the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Colin is a rockstar, who was instrumental in our team&#8217;s mission of Making America Safe Again,&#8217; Blanche wrote on X. &#8216;He is a consummate prosecutor who loves God, family, and country and will serve the President and the American people well.&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Vice President JD Vance announced the new role and the creation of the National Fraud Enforcement Division at the Department of Justice during a White House press briefing earlier this month, as the administration seeks to pursue a crackdown on alleged systemic fraud in federal programs, including in Minnesota and California.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Colin McDonald is widely regarded as a thorough and highly competent attorney. He has an exceptional prosecutorial track record, which we look forward to seeing him put to use in his new role as Assistant Attorney General,&#8217; Vance said at the time ahead of McDonald&#8217;s formal nomination.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated federal prosecutor Colin McDonald to serve in the newly&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}