United States Senate Democrats
07/15/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 07/15/2026 10:25
Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Urging Senate Republicans To Oppose Trump’s Self-Serving Nomination Of Todd Blanche To Be Attorney General
Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke on the Senate floor urging Senate Republicans to oppose Donald Trump's nomination of Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Trump's former personal lawyer and accomplice in corruption, to be Attorney General. Below are Senator Schumer's remarks, which can also be viewed here:
Anyone who can represent a known pathological liar like Donald Trump can have no integrity and should never be Attorney General. We all know lawyers are supposed to represent their clients. But when you represent a client who just lies and lies and lies pathologically, you should never be Attorney General.
The only thing today's hearing will confirm is that Todd Blanche represents one client alone: Donald Trump, and he will continue to represent that lying client when he's Attorney General. There'll be no integrity. There'll be no real basis of fact. He'll just do whatever Trump wants, we know that.
But the central question today at this hearing and into the process, is not what Trump wants but what Senate Republicans will do. Let me repeat that. The crucial question today is not what Trump wants, but what Senate Republicans will do.
Where are the Senate Republicans? Are Republicans really going to go to the mat for Blanche after he aided Trump in his corruption every step of the way?
Do Senate Republicans have no issue with Blanche masterminding Trump's MAGA slush fund, arranging Trump's sweetheart deal from the IRS, refusing to release 3 million pages of the Epstein files? Come on, Republicans, you have no shame? Is there no bar that can block you from, prevent you from putting a man like this as Attorney General?
Republicans have set the bar so low for our nation's top law enforcement official that you have to dig for it.
The American people don't trust Todd Blanche - neither should Senate Republicans, plain and simple.
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