Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Calling Out Senate Republicans: “Don’t Put The Architect Of Trump’s Grifts In Charge Of The Department Of Justice”

Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke on the Senate floor to slam Senate Republicans for trusting Todd Blanche's sham deal that still protects key components of Trump's $2 billion slush fund and tax immunity and urged them to partner with Senate Democrats to outlaw this corruption once and for all. Below are Senator Schumer's remarks, which can also be viewed here:

Make no mistake: Todd Blanche has no intention of stopping Trump's corruption. He's spent his career enabling it.

Instead of seeing Todd Blanche's so-called "deal" for the sham that it is, Senate Republicans are once again taking Trump's personal attorney at his word.

All Blanche's deal does is accept the reality that Trump's MAGA slush fund is never getting through the courts.

Blanche's so-called "deal" does nothing, nothing to stop the IRS sweetheart deal that lets Trump and his family cheat their way out of tens of millions of dollars in taxes.

Let me repeat that: Blanche is still perfectly fine with giving Trump a permission slip to commit tax fraud to the tune of tens of millions of dollars.

Is the Senate GOP willing to go along with Trump's tax fraud? Blanche certainly is.

Senate Republicans keep pretending that Blanche made real concessions on the slush fund. The truth is he just gave up a fight he had already lost in court.

There is no guardrail preventing Trump and Blanche from using taxpayer dollars to give cash payouts to violent January 6^th insurrectionists, MAGA billionaires, and the Trump family.

Trump won't even hide his intention to resurrect his MAGA cash rewards program.

Just last night, Trump said "a lot of people like [the slush fund.]" That was his words. He said it "would be a reimbursement for the pain that [January 6^th insurrectionists] suffered."

Where's the reimbursement for the economic pain Trump has inflicted on the American people with his rampant corruption and his disastrous agenda?

No one wants this slush fund other than Trump and his cronies. There's never been a more clear-cut case of self-dealing in American history.

Trump sued himself, settled with himself, then gave himself tax immunity for life and two billion dollars to either pocket, in his own pocket from the federal treasury, or pass out to bad people- all at the taxpayer's expense.

Senate Republicans: if you truly care about ending this corruption, then work with us to ban it by law - don't put the architect of Trump's grifts in charge of the Department of Justice.

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