Democrats eyeing investigations, and perhaps prosecutions, of Trump officials

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

06/07/26 5:00 PM ET


House Democrats want 2029 to be the year of reckoning for Trump administration officials. Democrats have long accused top members of President Trump’s team of violating laws across a wide range of activities, from deadly immigration raids and strikes on alleged drug boats, to financial self-dealing and targeting Trump’s political enemies for prosecutions.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has not pursued those cases, the Democrats contend, only because the president’s loyalists control the agency. In many cases, they say, the DOJ itself is guilty of the wrongdoing.

But Trump won’t be in power forever. And while the Supreme Court has granted immunity to presidents, shielding Trump from prosecutions related to his time in office, the dispensation does not extend to other administration officials. With that in mind, Democrats are already clamoring for the next administration, Democratic or Republican, to launch investigations into Trump officials — and prosecute them in cases of demonstrated criminal wrongdoing.

“This is stiff competition to see who is the leading crook,” Rep. Juan Vargas (D-Calif.) said.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5912666-democrats-trump-officials-investigations-prosecute/

[buzzycrumbhunger]

1. That's a long damned time

... to wait for justice. . 🤨

[littlemissmartypants]

2. Some people are still waiting for Justice. I'm look for Feminist Justice every day.

Racial justice needs an upgrade definitely.

[Justice matters.]

19. Statutes of Limitation...

They count on that, and also preemptive pardons possibilities.

What a system, hey?

[Skittles]

3. we better NOT be told to "look foward"

HOLD THESE FASCIST FUCKS ACCOUNTABLE

[liberalgunwilltravel]

4. I respectfully suggest ...

Nuremberg II.

[displacedvermoter]

8. One of those mafia trials in Sicily

where a hundred defendants are caged up together in a huge enclosure in the middle of a specially built courtroom.

Maybe work will be advanced enough on the ballroom thing to modify it for that purpose, or maybe Alcatraz...

[Scrivener7]

5. Perhaps?

[rogue emissary]

13. Exactly, F#@%& Perhaps.

We need Democrats to go too far with prosecutions. Put the fear of God into these idiots, grifters, and sycophants.

[travelingthrulife]

16. And lengthy jail sentences.

Perhaps. That is just sick.

[rogue emissary]

18. yep.

[mwmisses4289]

6. If the next admin is repuke, nothing will be done to t and his misfits,

but you can bet that Dems will be persecuted with all kinds of false allegations.

[3Hotdogs]

7. Why even last week, Clarance and Sammy were probably in the cloak room, "Sammy, we fucked up. We forgot to add

Cabinet members and White House officials to the immunity list."

[LPBBEAR]

9. and perhaps prosecutions?

AND PERHAPS PROSECUTIONS!

After over 10 years of this shit there damn well better be some prosecutions.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. Since DOJ is run by 45 and his "prosecutors"

then all we can do is evidence gathering ahead of the 2028 election, then WIN that election, and finally have at it.

[lostnfound]

11. Agreed but more likely, some will return to power in a few years. Truth is suppressed and messages keep changing

I’m old enough to have seen America twice elect the bumbling son of a 1-term president, the repeated return of dangerous neocons, and a recycling of bad actors in other countries via their children or grandchildren (Marcos/Mussolini).

We have structural problems with the education of citizens.

[travelingthrulife]

17. It's why Republicans always try to decimate public education...or any education.

[Bayard]

12. He'll preemptively pardon all of them before leaving office

[Fiendish Thingy]

14. Nothing can happen without first expanding the court

Whatever wish list Dems may have, none of it can get accomplished until the court is expanded, and the filibuster killed to do so.

[republianmushroom]

15. Going to need better AG then we had the last time

Dems were in power. No dropping the ball the next time.