Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) erupted during a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting as Republicans moved forward with Todd Blanche’s nomination to serve as Attorney General. He launched into a fit of shouting about President Donald Trump, Blanche, and his GOP colleagues. The New Jersey Democrat accused Republicans of obsessing over the Biden family while ignoring what he claimed were far larger conflicts involving the Trump family.
The outburst came as the committee considered whether to advance Blanche’s nomination to the full Senate. Booker made clear that he believed Democrats had lost the fight to stop the nomination at the committee level, repeatedly accusing his Republican colleagues of abandoning congressional oversight. He also claimed Blanche could not be trusted to act independently from Trump if confirmed as the nation’s top law enforcement official.
“Ridiculous! The corruption that we have normalized in America, that presidents’ children can go out and sit on boards and make money — that is wrong and that is corrupting,” Booker shouted. He then acknowledged the millions of dollars associated with the Biden family before accusing Republicans of applying a wildly different standard to Trump. “But they have become so obsessed with the millions that the Bidens have made that they have ignored completely the billions of dollars that the Trump family is making,” he said.
Booker’s remarks, posted to Rumble, then took a graphic turn. “That is like being obsessed and using a magnifying glass to study the stain on the living room carpet, when behind you is a mountain of excrement covering the living room couch and coffee table,” he declared. “This is so outrageous. The lack of proportionality going on of my colleagues. It is laughable.”
The senator continued raising his voice as he accused Trump of profiting from the Presidency through cryptocurrency and business arrangements involving his children. “This is absolutely insane that we have a president of the United States that has now made $2 billion doing what?” Booker said. He mocked the idea that the money reflected ordinary business success: “Wow, he’s such a shrewd businessman. Let me create my own crypto coin and have foreign nations invest in it.”
Booker also alleged that corporations were placing Trump’s children on boards and awarding them contracts, though he did not identify a specific company or contract. “Oh, and by the way, if you are a corporation in America, put my children on the board and they’ll get no-bid contracts,” he said. He then turned his anger back toward the committee itself, arguing that its members had failed to police executive power.
Watch Senator Booker’s meltdown here:
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“We are — this is the Judiciary Committee. We’re supposed to be checking and balancing this nation,” Booker said. He blamed collapsing trust in government on what he described as lawmakers abandoning their responsibilities. “Why have people on both sides of the aisle given up on any trust in government? It’s because we’re surrendering any shred of integrity left.”
The Democrat then warned that advancing Blanche would place too much power in the hands of someone he believed would protect Trump. “And now we’re letting an Attorney General become the highest law enforcement officer in the land, and putting no holds whatsoever,” he said. Booker claimed he had spent two weeks hoping the committee would impose some kind of safeguard before allowing the nomination to advance.
“I had hope for two weeks that we would get something, two weeks that we would have something substantive to stop the world’s greatest presidential tax cheat from cheating, and we’ve done nothing,” Booker said. “And this man is going to now sail to the floor, and history is going to show it. I know what’s gonna come out in history on this president, and I know what’s gonna come out on Todd.”
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