House Democrats Map Trump Probes for November
House Democrats Map Trump Probes for November
The News
House Democrats are mapping out a sweeping set of investigations into President Trump to launch if they win the majority in November's midterm elections, the Washington Post reports.
The plans target Trump's business ventures, his legal maneuvers and his policies, according to the Post.
The paper describes Democrats as "eagerly preparing to wield a power they do not yet have" — they are favored to retake the House, and little official business remains in the handful of days left in this session.
Republicans are running the other way at the same story: the New York Times reports the GOP is trying to brand Democrats as communists heading into the midterms.
Timeline
FrontPage Magazine publishes "Dems Try to Reboot Russiagate," casting the coming Democratic oversight push as a repeat of the Trump-Russia investigations. "Not this. Not again," the piece says.
The Washington Post reports on the investigations Democrats plan if they win in November, covering Trump's business ventures, legal maneuvers and policies. Political Wire picks up the report the same morning.
The New York Times reports that Republicans, facing midterm peril, are trying to brand Democrats as communists, noting that Trump has called communism a graver threat to the country than the Pearl Harbor or 9/11 attacks.
RealClearPolitics asks whether the Democrats' image problem is getting worse.
Reactions
Conservative media is treating the oversight plans as a sequel nobody asked for. FrontPage Magazine headlined its piece "Dems Try to Reboot Russiagate" and opened with "Not this. Not again."
The Times frames the Republican counterattack as hyperbole with an open-ended payoff: in Trump's telling, communism is a bigger danger to the country than Pearl Harbor or the Sept. 11 attacks, and whether that midterm message works is, the paper writes, an open question.
RealClearPolitics, on the right, argues the more immediate problem belongs to Democrats — their image with voters.
What's Next
The midterm elections in November decide whether any of it happens. Democrats need the House majority before they can issue a single subpoena.
Until then, the current session has only a handful of days of official business left, which is part of why the party's attention has already shifted to an accountability agenda.
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The Frank's note on sourcing: the specific targets, timing and scope of these investigations come from the Washington Post's reporting, which describes plans, not filed subpoenas. No committee has opened any of the probes described, because Democrats do not hold the gavels.
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