[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 115 (Wednesday, July 15, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Page S4094]
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                              Todd Blanche

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, 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 is Attorney General. There will be 
no integrity. There will be no real basis of fact. He will just do 
whatever Trump wants. We know that.
  But the central question today, at this hearing and on into the 
process, is not of 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, and refusing to release 3 million pages of the 
Epstein file? 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.