{"id":614905,"date":"2026-06-08T11:53:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T11:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=614905"},"modified":"2026-06-08T11:53:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T11:53:01","slug":"trump-team-faces-growing-threat-of-investigations-and-criminal-referrals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=614905","title":{"rendered":"Trump team faces growing threat of investigations and criminal referrals"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The midterms aren\u2019t the only election Democrats are reportedly looking beyond as lawmakers addressed their intent to weaponize the government against Trump officials.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 we\u2019re going to be very busy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite infrequent, half-hearted shows of tempering rhetoric, leftists have remained consistent in pursuing their agenda of opposition to President Donald Trump. Now, having gone after him relentlessly, including after his first administration, Democrats appear poised to campaign on similarly targeting officials from the second administration, even after the next presidential election.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is stiff competition to see who is the leading crook,\u201d California Rep. Juan Vargas (D) contended to The Hill<\/a> as senior staff writer Mike Lillis presented, \u201cHouse Democrats want 2029 to be the year of reckoning for Trump administration officials.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just as they have used the courts to impede efforts at restoring national sovereignty and reducing waste, fraud, and abuse via the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), lawmakers expressed their intent to get the ball rolling after the midterms, should control of the House shift from Republicans to Democrats.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore we start calling something a crime or making use of these legal terms that actually have very important meanings, we need to investigate,\u201d said\u00a0California Rep. Jared Huffman (D). \u201cWe need to do what Congress has declined to do for the last 16 months.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not going to wait for a new administration. We\u2019re going to kick right into oversight and investigation mode. It\u2019s urgent. But it\u2019s a long list; we\u2019re going to be very busy,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

While the gavel-seeking House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said in the wake of the April 25 attempt on the president\u2019s life that the impeachment of Trump wouldn\u2019t be the top priority with a flip of the House, he had no qualms with threatening the use of lawfare into the end of the decade late last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe one thing that should be clear to all these Republican extremists, and sycophants, and the people who are either actively involved in corruption, violating the law, engaged in extrajudicial activity, is that the statute of limitations for any crimes being committed now: five years,\u201d he said. \u201cIt will extend well beyond the end of the Trump administration.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jeffries: One thing that should be clear to all these Republican sycophants and the people who are actively involved in corruption, violating the law, engaging in extrajudicial activity\u2014the statute of limitations is five years. pic.twitter.com\/GMhxO7CXpu<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Acyn (@Acyn) December 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

California Rep. Ted Lieu (D) previously said of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth with regard to strikes against alleged drug boats, \u201cIf the Trump administration does not hold the people accountable, I guarantee you a future administration will do so. Because there is no statute of limitations for war crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Where it concerned Trump\u2019s nominee for attorney general, acting AG Todd Blanche, and the demonized anti-weaponization fund, the chair of the House Democratic Caucus told The Hill, \u201cHe\u2019s the architect of a fake settlement between the IRS and the Department of Justice, which are really the same entity because everyone reports to Trump. And then he was the architect of this $1.8 billion slush fund, and it took public pressure to get Blanche to back off.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNow was that illegal? I don\u2019t know. Maybe,\u201d the congressman hedged. \u201cSomeone should look into it, because he was clearly trying to get money that he wasn\u2019t authorized to get, and Congress never approved, using a fake settlement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Similarly, Virginia Rep. James Walkinshaw (D) expressed a desire to investigate DOGE employees accused of privacy breaches at various agencies, along with the alleged conduct of Corey Lewandowski, who served as a senior adviser under now-former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a shocking thing for contractors to have come forward and said he was shaking them down,\u201d said Walkinshaw. \u201cSo that\u2019s going to need a full investigation. There is an [inspector general] investigation right now, but I think that\u2019s definitely a starting point.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, after going along with President Joe Biden\u2019s preemptive and blanket pardons on his way out of office, the reported suggestion that Trump may take similar measures to protect his administration officials found Lieu willing to \u201ctest to see if pre-emptive pardons are actually constitutional.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The midterms aren\u2019t the only election Democrats are reportedly looking beyond as lawmakers addressed their intent to weaponize the government against Trump officials. \u201c\u2026 we\u2019re going to be very busy.\u201d Despite infrequent, half-hearted shows of tempering rhetoric, leftists have remained consistent in pursuing their agenda of opposition to President Donald Trump. Now, having gone after… Continue reading Trump team faces growing threat of investigations and criminal referrals<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":614906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=614905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/614906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=614905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=614905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=614905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}