Todd Blanche Confirmation A ‘Stain’ On U.S. Senate And ‘Threat To Our Country’

Photos: Wikimedia Commons WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Senate confirmed Trump lackey Todd Blanche as Attorney General roughly around 4:30am on Saturday, in a narrow vote of 50-49. In response to the news, Public Citizen co-president Lisa Gilbert issued the following statement:“This is a shameful day for our country – sadly one of many brought on by our lawless president and his cowardly enablers in Congress. Todd Blanche has thoroughly demonstrated why he should be disqualified from holding this post—from his efforts to shield Trump from any oversight or accountability, to his role in the shameful coverup of the Epstein scandal and his disregard for the victims, to his ongoing execution of political prosecutions of those on Trump’s enemies list. His confirmation is an unmistakable stain on the record of the Senators who voted to confirm him, and a threat to the rule of law in our country.“Moving forward, our country has to contend with an Attorney General who sees himself as a personal servant to Donald Trump instead of a public servant to the American people. If he is tasked with leading Trump’s revenge agenda against his political enemies and critics, as he likely will be, we have every reason to believe he will execute this mission with eagerness and fealty. We now must work doubly as hard to hold Trump’s Department of Justice accountable and prevent their abuses of power by every legal means available in our democratic system.”