Trump Orders DOJ to Probe Alleged Threats by Democrats Against Conservatives – The Epoch Times

President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool – The Epoch Times

President Donald Trump said he’s ordering the Justice Department to investigate Democratic political leaders he says have threatened the U.S. attorney general with impeachment and Republican donors with imprisonment.

“The Democrats are 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, even though they admit they have no reason to do so, and there have been no impeachable acts committed,” he wrote on Truth Social on Nov. 7.

“This is extortion at the highest level, and they should be held accountable for this,” he said.

Trump singled out Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), accusing her of saying she would target young people who hold Republican views.

Trump appeared to be referring to remarks made by Slotkin at an event at the University of Chicago last month.

“I [don’t] want young people coming out of school to say: ‘Should I go work for the Trump administration? Like, that sounds fun, I might get an opportunity,’” Slotkin said on Oct. 13. “I want them to be like: ‘Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don’t want. And so, let me avoid participating in that.’ I want that deterrence message sent.”

Trump also alleged that Democratic political leaders had sent threatening letters to multiple people. He did not identify the senders or recipients or include copies of the letters in the post. He did not specify which donors had been threatened with prison or which Democrats had raised the prospect of impeaching the attorney general.

“By copy of this statement, I am ordering the Department of Justice to look into this criminal act, immediately!” Trump wrote.

Slotkin said Trump’s response to the midterms was to “double down on the policies that brought him the loss in the first place.”

“This shouldn’t be controversial: if you break the law or use taxpayer dollars to enrich yourself, you should be held accountable,” Slotkin said Nov. 7 in a post on X. “If you didn’t break the law, then it’s all good.”

She told the president he should be spending his time “working on plans to end the war with Iran, end the sloppy tariffs, and deal with the impending impact of your healthcare cuts — which take effect on January 1.”

Attorney General Todd Blanche also alleged on Nov. 8 during interviews with CNN and Fox News that Democrats had threatened Republican donors and college students who might want to work for conservative organizations or the Trump administration.

He also accused Democrats of threatening to pursue impeachment and target private companies that had invested in the United States over the past two years.

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform was also referenced by Blanche.

“Have you been listening to the rhetoric the past couple days?” Blanche asked CNN host Dana Bash. “You honestly think that all they’re doing is talking about their oversight obligations when they’re talking about going after basically every member of the cabinet? They’re talking about impeachments; they’re talking about going after private companies who happen to have made investments in this country over the past couple years. That is not oversight.”

Blanche also said the Justice Department would represent administration officials called before Congress, describing that as standard practice across administrations.

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) said Democrats “will not be intimidated” by Blanche’s comments about investigating threats.

“Todd Blanche was Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, and as Attorney General of the United States, he’s still acting like it,” Garcia said in a post on X on Sunday. “Blanche should be defending the Constitution, not threatening our Committee for doing our jobs.”

The Epoch Times has contacted the DOJ and Slotkin for comment