Legal analysts point to the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in
Trump v. United States—which expanded presidential immunity for official acts—as a foundational legal shift that emboldened the president to direct DOJ prosecutorial decisions more explicitly.
President Donald Trump on Saturday urged what’s now his Justice Department to investigate Democrats who have pledged to scrutinize his administration, writing on
social media that their actions were “extortion” and “Weaponization and Lawfare at another level.”
President
Donald Trump said Saturday that he was ordering the Justice Department to investigate Democratic leaders over what he described as threats against Republican officials, donors and supporters, without identifying the alleged communications or providing evidence of criminal conduct.
Trump ordered DOJ to examine alleged threats against Republicans while singling out Slotkin.
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“The Democrats are going around threatening a lot of people … with Impeachment and many other forms of punishment, even though they admit they have no reason to do soand there have been no impeachable acts committed, or even thought of, by the victims of this illegal process,” the president wrote
in a Truth Social post Saturday.”
President Trump raised concerns Saturday about some Democrats calling for the impeachment of Republican officials, referring to the threats as “extortion at the highest level” and asking the Justice Department to “look into this.”
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President Trump’s former personal lawyer and now Attorney General Todd Blanche criticized congressional Democrats’ rhetoric and has publicly refuted claims of political retribution, stating that accusations of the DOJ acting as a personal weapon are "simply not true" and "absolutely not true". He maintained that career agents and local prosecutors handle daily case files independently to keep the country safe, like the investigations and charges of former FBI Director Jim Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and California Senator Adam Schiff.
In his social media post, Trump said Democrats have been “going around threatening a lot of people, including the Attorney General of the United States, and others, with Impeachment and many other forms of punishment.” Trump wrote that he was ordering the Justice Department to investigate what he called a “criminal act.”
Democrats have pledged sweeping investigations of Trump's second administration.
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Just two days after Election Day, two House Democrats
voiced their support of impeaching GOP officials like Attorney General Todd Blanche and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. This came shortly after Democrats seized control of the House and the Senate after winning tough races in battleground states like Texas, Michigan, Maine, Kansas, Iowa and Ohio. Trumps Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment Saturday.
President Donald Trump said the Justice Department should
investigate Democrats’ “threats” to probe Republican lawmakers and donors after members of the minority party announced sweeping plans to tackle what they see as widespread corruption upon taking control of both chambers of Congress on January 3rd next year. The president added: “The imprisonment should be against these EXTORTIONISTS, and Republicans should get smart, fast!”
Democratic lawmakers have said they will launch sweeping probes into Republican lawmakers and donors once they control both chambers of Congress.
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The president’s post also stated that Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Michigan) has said she will “go after all young people that believe in Republican Values, and that give even the slightest inclination to be a Republican.”
Slotkin drew the president’s ire
last year after posting a video aimed at military members that urged them to stand up to illegal orders. In January, Trump’s DOJ launched an
investigation into Slotkin and the other Democratic lawmakers who participated in the video, though the case was ultimately
dropped in February after a grand jury declined to sign off on an indictment. At the time, Trump had accused them of sedition, “punishable by death.”
“Mr. President, your threats of legal action and worse didn’t work when you tried to criminally indict me in front of a grand jury last February. Or when you threatened it again last month,” Slotkin
posted Saturday on X, adding that Trump should focus on ending the Iran war and tariffs.
Trump lashed out at Democrats on Truth Social days after the party won control of Congress.
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. Meanwhile, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is weighing in on a White-House floated rumor that his Los Angeles constituent, rapper Nicki Minaj, could be the next White House press secretary, resurfacing a series of public sparring between Minaj and the Democratic governor. "We can only pray," Newsom's press office posted on Oct. 25 in response to a TMZ report that Minaj has been floated by White House staffers for the role.
