Democrats are already preparing Trump investigations if they retake the House
Source: MS NOW News
May. 26, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT
They may not have the gavels yet, but House Democrats are laying the groundwork for a number of investigations into President Donald Trump should they win control of Congress in November.
Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif. — who’s set to chair the House Oversight Committee in a Democratic majority — told MS NOW that his team is “already preparing and gearing up.” “We’ve got a team on Epstein, we have a team on [Trump] family corruption, we have a team on DHS and ICE,” Garcia said. “Those teams are actively working on preparation, letters, research.”
The House Judiciary Committee is the other panel set to play an outsized role in accountability efforts. Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland is expected to serve as chairman. Raskin told MS NOW that “the political and financial corruption at the heart of the Trump presidency” amounts to “a civic emergency.”. “We need to go directly after that corruption, to expose it, and to do whatever we can to stop it as quickly as possible,” Raskin said.
Over the past several months, Democrats on both committees have announced investigations or requested documents on a variety of matters — offering a glimpse of what their likely targets will be in the House majority. So far, those targets have fallen into a few categories: alleged self-enrichment by the Trump family, alleged retaliatory prosecutions by the Department of Justice, the issues and delays related to the rollout of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation files, and accusations of private corporations kowtowing to the administration.
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We need to take dominant control of the House & Senate + Presidency in '28 and jam thru a la Moscow Mitch a fire breathing liberal LION as AG, not another milquetoast "Let's look forward" one like Garland 
. Then act on the investigative findings on DAY 2 (let day 1 be about the inauguration). Indictments within 3-6 months, and if they include corrupt Dems as well as Repugs, so be it.
This is a "Civics 101" process.
Legislation is crafted how? 
By having hearings, including bringing in witnesses to testify as part of an "investigation", to determine if something needs to be fixed or might be created to benefit constituents and the country.
Then with all that information, a bill can be drafted, marked up, and finalized for a final vote in a (or multiple) Committee and eventually sent to the floor of the originating chamber of Congress, for a vote. Then that goes to the other chamber for review/hearings/drafts before their vote.
It has nothing to do with "vengeance" or "retribution". It's how Congress is supposed to work. If there are loopholes in current laws that this criminal administration has exploited, then Congress SHOULD BE finding them and CLOSING THEM.
The problem with the GOP is their MANUFACTURING things to "investigate" and that turns the STANDARD Congressional process, into a joke. It's a tactic that Newt Gingrich had been planning on and deploying for nearly 50 years.
I will post this again as I have done before, about what Gingrich did and you can see how it has fully manifested today -
Newt Gingrich turned partisan battles into bloodsport, wrecked Congress, and paved the way for Trump’s rise. Now he’s reveling in his achievements.
Story by McKay Coppins
November 2018 Issue
Updated on October 17, 2018
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On June 24, 1978, Gingrich stood to address a gathering of College Republicans at a Holiday Inn near the Atlanta airport. It was a natural audience for him. At 35, he was more youthful-looking than the average congressional candidate, with fashionably robust sideburns and a cool-professor charisma that had made him one of the more popular faculty members at West Georgia College. But Gingrich had not come to deliver an academic lecture to the young activists before him—he had come to foment revolution.
“One of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don’t encourage you to be nasty,” he told the group. “We encourage you to be neat, obedient, and loyal, and faithful, and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around the campfire but are lousy in politics.” For their party to succeed, Gingrich went on, the next generation of Republicans would have to learn to “raise hell,” to stop being so “nice,” to realize that politics was, above all, a cutthroat “war for power”—and to start acting like it.
The speech received little attention at the time. Gingrich was, after all, an obscure, untenured professor whose political experience consisted of two failed congressional bids. But when, a few months later, he was finally elected to the House of Representatives on his third try, he went to Washington a man obsessed with becoming the kind of leader he had described that day in Atlanta. The GOP was then at its lowest point in modern history. Scores of Republican lawmakers had been wiped out in the aftermath of Watergate, and those who’d survived seemed, to Gingrich, sadly resigned to a “permanent minority” mind-set. “It was like death,” he recalls of the mood in the caucus. “They were morally and psychologically shattered.”
But Gingrich had a plan. The way he saw it, Republicans would never be able to take back the House as long as they kept compromising with the Democrats out of some high-minded civic desire to keep congressional business humming along. His strategy was to blow up the bipartisan coalitions that were essential to legislating, and then seize on the resulting dysfunction to wage a populist crusade against the institution of Congress itself. “His idea,” says Norm Ornstein, a political scientist who knew Gingrich at the time, “was to build toward a national election where people were so disgusted by Washington and the way it was operating that they would throw the ins out and bring the outs in.”
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gingrich-says-youre-welcome/570832/