President Donald Trump wants Democrats investigating him to be afraid. Very scared.
That’s the unmistakable sentiment behind recent suggestions from the president and his top aides that lawmakers could face criminal prosecution for launching investigations that the White House deems illegitimate.
In a letter dated Monday, White House counsel Will Scharf amplified Trump’s call to “ prison “Congressional investigators, writing to new chairman of the House Oversight Committee Robert Garcia (California Democrat) warning that some of the corruption investigations announced by the House could be considered criminal.
The Department of Justice took over on Wednesday telling the senator. Richard Blumenthal (Connecticut Democrat) that his investigations into donors behind Trump’s White House ballroom could violate criminal laws and also endanger the senator’s staff and associates. Blumenthal called the threat baseless. And the same American lawyer who sent the letter to Blumenthal followed up with a similar letter to the senator. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) Thursday.
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