As Donald Trump is formally notified of his status as the target of a criminal probe, he’s begging congressional Republicans to help. As stevebenen writes, whether the former president understands this or not, his pleas won’t work.
to the House Intelligence Committee, insisting that a “legislative solution,” to be approved by Congress, is “required” to prevent federal prosecutors from pursuing the case further.
The letter proposed that the Justice Department “should be ordered to stand down” — as if members of the legislative branch have the authority to direct federal prosecutors to drop a case. in which he argued that Congress should “demand” that federal prosecutors “stop the Witch Hunt against ‘TRUMP.’”
It was against this backdrop that the former president returned to the subject yet again yesterday, begging GOP lawmakers to make his dilemma their “#1 issue.” I honestly don’t know what he expects congressional Republicans to do. Congress has no control over who is or isn’t indicted. It’s possible that Trump has imagined a scenario in which lawmakers pass a bill to defund the special counsel’s office, thereby derailing the investigation, but even if the GOP-led House were to take up such a measure, it obviously couldn’t pass the Democratic-led Senate or receive President Joe Biden’s signature.
, who can help rescue him from a crisis of his own making. Whether Trump understands this or not, his pleas won’t work.
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