White House Threatens Oversight Democrats With Criminal Investigation
White House counsel Will Scharf threatened Rep. Robert Garcia, the Democrat set to chair the House Oversight Committee, with criminal investigation in a letter reported by Punchbowl News, amid other prosecutions of Democratic lawmakers including the six over the servicemembers video, which grand juries refused to indict, and an ongoing case against Rep. Ilhan Omar. In the letter, Scharf said Garcia's planned records requests could "cross the line into blatant criminality," while Garcia said "It appears Donald Trump has something to hide," and Trump ordered the DOJ to investigate; HuffPost calls the threat extremely unusual and reads it as a signal of maximal hostility to incoming Democratic investigations.
