Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Denouncing Trump Loyalist Todd Blanche’s Nomination For Attorney General
Washington, D.C. – Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke on the Senate floor to oppose the nomination of Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to permanently fill the role. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has spent this confirmation fight doing what he's always done for his client, his number one client, Donald Trump: denying the obvious, defending the indefensible, and lying under oath.
As Attorney General, your number one client should be the United States of America. But here, Blanche, his number one client will be Donald Trump, who has no regard for our Constitution, for our values, for the rule of law, for honesty.
Blanche’s resume reads like a rap sheet.
In his time at the Department of Justice, Todd Blanche has helped the administration defy dozens of court orders blocking their illegal policies.
Blanche continues to withhold three million pages of the Epstein files and lied under oath to Congress about meeting the Epstein survivors – something they deny.
Blanche was the mastermind behind, the champion of one of the most despicable acts of corruption ever in the American government: the two-billion-dollar MAGA slush fund to give taxpayer-funded cash payouts to Donald Trump, MAGA billionaires, and January 6 insurrectionists. Can you imagine having this guy as Attorney General when he came up with this slush fund and propounded it? One of the most corrupt acts anyone has proposed, any Attorney General, and they want to put him in? Oh my god.
I’m pleased a federal judge rebuked that blatantly corrupt slush fund and sweetheart immunity deal for Trump and his family, but we haven’t seen the last of this administration’s corruption.
Blanche has devoted his career to serving Donald Trump and particularly his corrupt purposes.
Blanche has gone after Trump’s enemies, covered up Trump’s crimes, and shielded Trump from the consequences.
Who does Trump pick in these very important law enforcement offices? People who represented him, people he knows will lie for him.
If he becomes Attorney General, Blanche’s letterhead might change but his loyalty to Trump won’t. Again: his number one client will be Donald Trump and his lies, not the United States of America.
Blanche has already made it clear that we can’t trust a word that comes out of his mouth, and Republicans ought to remember that during his confirmation hearing.
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