They may not have the gavels yet, but House Democrats are laying the groundwork for a number of investigations into Donald Trump should they win control of Congress in November.
Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif. — who’s set to chair the House Oversight Committee in a Democratic majority — told MS NOW that his team is “already preparing and gearing up.”
“We’ve got a team on Epstein, we have a team on [Trump] family corruption, we have a team on DHS and ICE,” Garcia said. “Those teams are actively working on preparation, letters, research.”
If they want to be trusted again they should investigate Bidens ignoring of the Leahy laws as well. we need to be a nation of laws again and that meas going after everyone who breaks the law whether they are in your party or in office or not.
Look into Schmuck Schumer, too. He only cares about Israel and Insider Trading, so it wouldn’t surprise me at all if he was MAGA bought. He couldn’t have been less effective if he was working for MAGA.
Maybe prosecute for the myriad of blatantly illegal shit that’s already public knowledge, then investigate the rest once he’s already in prison?
We’re going to be investigating this fucker’s crimes for the next 50 years.
In other words, dont Merrick garland it.
If and when we take back the power that’s being gerrymandered out of our grasp currently, we’ll begin investigating his actions and ultimately applaud ourselves when we confirm what is already very, very obvious. He might be dead of natural causes but at least we investigated. Meanwhile, every one suffering the wrath of his ego and the cruelty of his minions just needs to sit tight and trust the process.
Nah Robert, fuck you and your plans. Fuck your party and your committees. You’re useless sacks of shit who’ve squandered power in the past and will squander it again once (if) you take it back while the innocent suffer and die at the hands of this regime. Too little, too late. I hope history records for posterity that the ineptitude of the Democrats, while not equal to the crimes of MAGA, is like modern day Chamberlains. Ya fucked around and the rest of us have to be the ones who found out.
Great, laying the groundwork for 10 years worth of beuarecratic foot dragging. The dems suck at doing this sort of thing.
Why investigate Trump at this point? Go after everyone around him with state charges. There are a bunch of criminals around him. Right now they are not afraid of doing crimes for the orange man.
“Preparation, letters, and research.” You better watch out, Trump administration. You’ve got some strongly worded letters COMING IN HOT. The concern that Democrats are feeling right now will be fucking PALBABLE from coast to coast.
They’re going to ask you pointed question but you won’t have to provide serious answers. Then… you will be free to go.
Get ready to be SLAMMED
All the jaundiced takes aside, this is what they should be doing right now.
I think everyone agrees, we just don’t have faith that it’ll bear fruit. There’s been someone in the party doing this since Trump won his first primary, but they’ve always been stopped at some level by ANY degree of opposition, from thinly veiled foot dragging to blatant corruption.
Seriously, it feels like people think Dems should be building an oubliette right now. The process of rooting out and punishing corruption/incompetence starts with investigations (if you don’t have absolute power) - so they’d better be damn ready to hit the ground running
building an oubliette
An oubliette is where you put someone to forget about them, and these shitheels should be remembered forever as cautionary tales, both on what can happen if you get too casual about letting corrupt fucks into positions of power, and on what can happen to you if you’re a corrupt fuck and you try to fuck around too corruptly and get caught with your dick in the cookie jar.
The problem was nearly four years of “this time we’re really gonna get Trump” in the context of the J6 investigation, the documents he hoarded in his bathroom, etc, and not a damn thing actually happened. The man is white and wealthy and we had four years to see what white and wealthy gets you - teflon skin apparently.
So it’s a little bit hard to imagine dems coming out hard enough to secure consequences of any kind for him. I’m hopeful, sure, and I’m glad they are planning. What I lack faith in is the effectiveness of the plans.
The D is for Data center. Be careful which democrat you chose.
Whenever there’s a real socialist, vote for them. If there isn’t, maybe it’s time for a career in politics.
I think a big problem is people saying “the Dems” like politicians, the party, fundraisers, and everyone else are in lockstep.
That’s how it used to work, but we quit that shit over a year ago. For good reason. A giant organization controlling everything is the antithesis of the Democratic party.
But yeah, we can’t afford to pull another Biden where day 1 we “start to discuss if we should investigate if it’s time to worry about ____”.
New congress is 7 months away, and they’ve got midterms and 2 months of vacation between now and then.
We don’t have as much time as people think, we absolutely should have shit ready.
-teenage me explaining my intentions to work on homework before locking myself in a room with my Xbox to play halo all night
Yeeee hawwwee
Investigations like they had last time that went nowhere? More pre election preformative bullshit. How anyone could still support them is baffling as fuck
Virtually everyone in this administration should be arrested.
They had four years
Trump specifically should have been in prison for blatant crimes well before he ever even ran the first time in 2000. It was already public knowledge by the time i was in high school in the 00’s. And thats what i, a stupid kid not in NYC knew.
Agreed
They had 10 years really. If they took the Russian thing seriously, they would’ve prevented Facebook from providing Russian propaganda to the masses during election season to the tune of billions of dollars… they instead, invested in Facebook and enjoyed the gains on all of this
26 years really, If they would have slowed down the consolidation of power in media empires…. And prevented an administration from cozying up to Fox News to advocate for torturing prisoners. The marriage of politicians and media has been going wrong my whole life: they don’t care they abuse it too.
Bill Fucking Clinton accelerated the consolidation of media empires and drove it towards partisan propaganda.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996
One of the worst pieces of legislation passed in our country’s history.
Biden and the neoliberals had four years, and they did what anyone with a brain predicted.
Which included Biden naming a DNC chair in 2021 that would rig the 2024 primary, which also happened.
But because Republicans won the 2024 election, DNC voting members got to pick their own chair in 2025.
Blaming the current chair for what happened 2021 thru 2024 with the party makes as much sense as blaming Obama in 09 for what GW did 04-08…
I’m not trying to be a dick, it’s just very hard to explain such a basic concept in a way that doesn’t come off condescendingly.
Enforced by who? They can literally ignore subpoenas without consequences.
The orange utan has full immunity, courtesy of the corrupt SCOTUS. The dems should just stop the gesticulating already.
I’ll believe it when I see it
How about prepared to throw him in jail in an immigrant detention center indefinitely while we take 10 years to bring up charges? Good enough for a random Iraqi but not the president?
So as to appear to be doing something?
