Some House Democrats are already considering the possibility of investigating former President Donald Trump if they win Won majority in the House in November.
Two top lawmakers, Reps. Richard Neal, D-Massachusetts, and Jamie Raskin, D-Md., did not rule out the possibility of investigating Trump if he wins the White House in November.
Neal, the top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee who led the investigation into Trump’s tax returns in the last Congress, told Fox News Digital it would be “hard to assess” whether he would see himself reviving that effort, but he said the Supreme Court’s recent decision expanding presidential immunity could change the calculus.
“That would be speculation, but I certainly would not back down from the positions that I’ve taken over the years on that issue,” Neal said.
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Representatives Eric Swalwell and Dan Goldman have said they would investigate Trump if he wins in November. (Getty Images)
“I would rather look to the future than the past, but we’ll do our job,” Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, told Fox News Digital.
In a lengthy statement to Fox News Digital on Wednesday, Raskin accused Republicans of ignoring issues like gun violence and the cost of prescription drugs.
“Instead, for two years, House Republicans have used a sledgehammer to turn the impeachment inquiry into a laughingstock in order to help their presidential candidate and personal cult leader, Donald Trump. Worse, they have blocked and obstructed Democrats’ efforts to investigate the corruption of Donald Trump and his autocratic allies,” Raskin said.
“It is vital for Congress to investigate this endless corruption so that legislative reforms can be made to ensure that government serves the people, and to stop attempts to exploit the presidency and sell our government to the highest bidder.”
Meanwhile, Democratic Reps. Eric Swalwell, D.C.-Calif., and Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., said investigations into Trump’s family and their business dealings are needed even if the former president loses reelection.
Both named his son-in-law and former White House adviser Jared Kushner, whose investment firm has suffered huge losses. Investment commitment of $2 billion This money has been received from the fund headed by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
“His family has some dealings that we found out about when we left the majority and I think it’s appropriate to meet with them,” Swalwell said. “Kushner and the Saudi deal — I think people want some conclusions on that.”
He took aim at the House GOP’s investigation into the overseas business dealings of President Biden’s son, saying, “If you tell me you’re interested in Hunter Biden, you probably have an obligation to the country to be interested in what happened there.”
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Democrats suggested that Jared Kushner’s foreign business dealings could be investigated. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)
“I think if Trump wins, obviously (the committee’s) main purpose will be to provide the checks and balances that Congress needs to investigate, and that Donald Trump in particular needs,” Goldman, a member of the Oversight Committee, told Fox News Digital.
“I think the committee this year did not examine a number of important, substantive issues that are not partisan, that we should be focusing on,” he said, adding, “But we are also disappointed that clear, obvious concerns were not examined.”
“How did Jared Kushner get $2 billion from Mohammed bin Salman for an investment company he never did before… that’s a huge amount of money. There has been no investigation into that.”
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Trump campaign spokeswoman Carolyn Levitt responded, “Swalwell and Goldman should receive life sentences. President Trump has endured two bogus impeachments, four baseless indictments, and endless investigations into his businesses — all of which have failed because they are not based on facts, but rather fueled by the Trump Derangement Syndrome that has taken over the Democrat Party.”
Raskin’s investigative efforts against Trump during this Congress, as leader of the Oversight Committee’s Democratic minority, could also offer a possible preview of what Democrats’ investigations of Trump might look like in a second term.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said if Democrats win they will “harrow” Trump. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Earlier this month, he and Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., sent a letter to Trump demanding that the former president prove he did not take a “cash bribe” from Egypt’s president in 2017. Washington Post The report also alleged that former Attorney General Bill Barr blocked an investigation into the matter.
Investigating Biden and his family has been a key focus of the committee under Chairman James Comer. Comer, R-KY, recently released a report accusing the president of committing impeachable offenses — which the White House has denied.
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He denied that the intensity of his investigation into Biden could give Democrats an opening to investigate Trump, however — insisting that his investigation into Trump was political.
“If Democrats want to waste taxpayer money and time by investigating the Trump administration for a second time, that’s their prerogative. But we focused on the waste, the fraud and the abuse and the mismanagement by the federal government,” Comer told Fox News Digital.
“If Trump wins … they will harass and obstruct every step of the way.”
