White House Counsel Vows to Fight Democratic Investigations
White House counsel Will Scharf vowed Wednesday that the Trump administration is prepared to fight "tooth and nail" against congressional Democrats who launch what he called "inappropriate" investigations into the president and his officials.
Appearing on Newsmax's Rob Schmitt Tonight, Scharf defended his warning letter to incoming House Oversight Chair Robert Garcia (D-CA), which suggested Democratic investigations into the administration could "cross the line into blatant criminality."
"What we've seen in the last week is this explosion by new Democrat members of Congress, by existing Democrat members of Congress, and they're talking about subpoenas and investigations for blatantly unlawful purposes," Scharf claimed.
"I thought it was very, very important that just at the outset we set the tone," he continued. "If there's going to be an investigative process here, it should be a dignified, lawful investigative process."
Scharf went on to accuse Democrats of reviving the "lawfare" President Donald Trump faced before returning to the White House.
"I would have hoped that the Democrats would have learned a lesson from that," he said. "The only thing they achieved was putting President Donald J. Trump back in the White House where he belongs."
The White House lawyer insisted "the Constitution and the law are absolutely on our side" before laying out what he considered improper uses of congressional oversight.
"They can't investigate for the purpose of inflicting pain on government officials; they can't investigate things for their own self-aggrandizement. These are blatantly inappropriate uses of Congress's power," Scharf argued.
"We're gonna see what happens in January, but we're ready to fight tooth and nail here if that's the road they want to go down," he warned.
