“Weaponization and Lawfare at another level”

House Democrats Shift from Cost-Cutting Agenda to Broad Investigations of Trump, Family, And Aides

Pprepare for an onslaught of probes into President Donald Trump, his family members, and administration officials when Democrats take control of Congress in January.

The incoming Democratic House Oversight Chairman, Rep. Robert Garcia, has vowed to specifically investigate the “Trump Crime Family, corporate corruption, DHS and ICE abuses, and the cover-up of the Epstein files.”

“Lawyer up,” the future chairman said in a statement.

We knew this was coming.

None of this is a surprise – not even a little. Garcia had his hit list assembled well before a single midterm ballot dropped. Jamie Raskin, soon to chair the Judiciary Committee, launched probes into Jared Kushner back in April. He’s already called impeachment “a critical tool in the constitutional toolbox.” Subtle, right?

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Criminal probes of Trump went nowhere

Justice Department Exits

Jason Reding Quiñones stepped down as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida after his office hosted a wide-ranging probe tied to prior investigations of President Trump, the latest in a string of Justice Department exits.

Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Friday that Jason Reding Quiñones, the United States attorney for the Southern District of Florida, had submitted his resignation from the Department of Justice. About an hour and a half later, Blanche also announced the departure of John Eisenberg, the assistant attorney general for the National Security Division.

The Hill reported the twin announcements as part of a rapid stretch of senior exits: three Justice Department officials resigned in just two days, including Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon, who left Thursday and said she had decided to do so before Election Day.

Quiñones’s South Florida office had housed a broad investigation into earlier criminal probes of Trump and a 2016 review of the president’s campaign, the inquiry critics and opponents have labeled a “grand conspiracy” probe. Prosecutors issued numerous subpoenas. No charges have resulted yet.

That is the opposition line: call the inquiry a fantasy and treat every resignation as proof it never should have started. What the record actually shows is different and narrower. An office issued subpoenas. Prior leaders quit over speed, evidence strength, and clearance problems. The top local prosecutor is now gone as well. And the Justice Department still has not produced charges from that file.

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