President Donald Trump has nominated Associate Deputy Attorney General Colin McDonald to lead the newly established assistant attorney general position for national fraud enforcement. McDonald has served in the Trump administration since the president’s second inauguration, first as senior counsel to the Office of the Deputy Attorney General until April 2025. Since then, he has served as associate deputy attorney general, a White House official noted. “Colin McDonald is widely regarded as a thorough and highly competent attorney,” Vance said. “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.”Attorney General Pamela Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche also spoke highly of McDonald.