Blanche confirmation allows Trump to continue ‘pervasive, breathtaking corruption’, says Schumer – as it happened

Trump's former defense attorney, Todd Blanche, was confirmed as attorney general on Saturday morning, The Guardian reports. The Senate voted fifty to forty-nine in favor. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer condemned the confirmation, saying it allows Trump to continue what he characterized as pervasive, breathtaking corruption.

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