司法部长托德·布兰奇周日表示，计划对特朗普政府发起监督调查的民主党议员可能面临刑事起诉。
Attorney General Todd Blanche suggested Sunday that Democratic lawmakers who are planning to launch oversight investigations into the Trump administration could be criminally prosecuted.
“过去几天，甚至过去几周，我们看到的都是赤裸裸的威胁，”布兰奇在CNN的《国家面对面》节目中表示。
“What we‘ve seen over the past several days and even over the past several weeks are outright threats,” Blanche said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
被问及他是否认为这些威胁构成犯罪，布兰奇说：“这要看说了什么。所以，有可能。”
Asked if he considered those threats to be a crime, Blanche said, “It depends on what’s said. So yes, there could be.”
布兰奇本人也是弹劾的潜在目标。众议院司法委员会有望成为委员会主席的民主党众议员杰米·拉斯金，在大选后一天对MS NOW表示，布兰奇是弹劾目标之一。皮特·赫格塞思是另一位弹劾的主要目标，并有共和党人支持。
Blanche himself is a potential target of impeachment Rep. Jamie Raskin, who is poised to become chair of the House Judiciary Committee, told MS NOW a day after Election Day. Pete Hegseth is another top target of impeachment, with Republican support.
众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯表示，如果在一月由同僚民主党人选举为议长，他的党将“让骗子受到追究”。
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who will become speaker if elected by fellow Democrats in January, has told MS NOW his party will “hold the crooks accountable.”
他在周日对MS NOW说，他对弹劾国防部长的决议是“坚决赞成”。杰弗里斯说：“皮特·赫格塞特必须下台”，指责其滥用权力、破坏国家安全，并策划一场“在伊朗的鲁莽且代价高昂的选择性战争”。
On Sunday, he said he’s a “hard yes” on a resolution to impeach the defense secretary. “Pete Hegseth has got to go,” Jeffries said, accusing him of abusing his power, undermining national security and engineering a “reckless and costly war of choice in Iran.”
布兰奇在一天前警告可能的报复，此前总统唐纳德·特朗普在社交媒体上抨击即将上任的国会多数，称：“这些渣滓应该因他们的所作所为入狱”。
Blanche’s stark warning of potential retaliation came a day after President Donald Trump railed against the incoming congressional majority on social media, saying, “These SLEAZEBAGS should go to jail for what they are doing.”
布兰奇说：“在这个国家你有言论自由。你可以批评特朗普总统、批评我、批评本届政府。但当威胁变得如此恶劣、如此危险，以至于你在大学里告诉学生，如果他们想在特朗普政府工作就要小心，因为会有人来找他们时，总有一天必须划清界限。”这位司法部长指的是参议员埃莉萨·斯洛特金上月在芝加哥大学向学生发表的“威慑信息”。斯洛特金是去年因敦促美国军人‘拒绝特朗普政府官员的非法命令’而被司法部调查的一批民主党议员之一。
“You have free speech in this country. You are allowed to be critical of President Trump, of me, of this administration,” Blanche said. “But when the threats become so vile and so dangerous that you are telling people in college that they better be careful if they want to work in the Trump administration because somebody will come after them, at some point, you have to draw the line.”The attorney general was referring to Sen. Elissa Slotkin’s “deterrence message” last month to students at the University of Chicago. Slotkin was among a group of Democratic lawmakers investigated by the Department of Justice last year after urging U.S. military service members to “refused illegal orders” by Trump administration officials.
即使在五天前以显著优势赢得国会两院，民主党人也曾表示计划让特朗普及其政府官员对包括致命军事打击、移民政策、无竞争性合同以及联邦建设项目（包括白宫舞厅和林肯纪念堂倒影池）在内的行为承担责任。但在决定性胜选后，他们的计划全面公开。
Even before winning both chambers of Congress five days ago by strikingly large numbers, Democrats had said they planned to hold Trump and his administration officials accountable for actions ranging from lethal military strikes and immigration tactics to no-bid contracts and federal constructions projects, including the White House ballroom and the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. But after winning decisively, their plans came into full view.
“请聘请律师”，加州民主党众议员、即将担任众议院监督委员会主席的罗伯特·加西亚在赢得多数后数小时发布声明时说。
Lawyer up” Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., the incoming chair of the House Oversight Committee, said in a statement issued hours after winning the majority.
布兰奇是特朗普的前私人律师，他一直领导司法部持续努力起诉总统的政敌，包括前联邦调查局局长詹姆斯·科米，他回应了加西亚的警告。
Blanche, Trump’s former personal attorney who has led persistent Justice Department efforts to prosecute the president’s political enemies — including Former FBI Director James Comey— addressed Garcia’s warning.
“司法部律师代表行政部门成员，加西亚众议员对此表示批评，这显示出对政府运作方式的极大误解，”布兰奇在CNN上表示。“如果我是该委员会的成员，我会非常担心。”但并非所有民主党人都对对特朗普政府进行国会腐败调查的前景感到兴奋。
“Department of Justice lawyers represent members of the executive, and the fact that Congressman Garcia is critical of that shows a remarkable lack of understanding of how government works,” Blanche said on CNN. “And I would be very worried if I was a member on that committee.”But not all Democrats are excited by the prospect of holding congressional corruption investigations into the Trump administration.
当选参议员亚当·汉密尔顿是堪萨斯州一位制造重大冷门胜利的民主党人，他周日表示，他更愿意专注于阻止特朗普的关税和战争，并帮助本州那些难以负担化肥和柴油的农民。
Sen.-elect Adam Hamilton, the Democrat who won a major upset in Kansas, said Sunday he would rather focus on stopping Trump’s tariffs and war and helping farmers in his state who are struggling to afford fertilizer and diesel.
“如果我把未来两年——我在参议院的头两年——花在调查上，我会深感失望，”汉密尔顿周日在NBC的《与新闻人物面对面》节目中表示。当被问及是否认为特朗普的弹劾应被提上议程时，他说：“我对设置护栏的兴趣，大于对弹劾的兴趣。”“我不希望看到我们在未来两年里进一步分裂国家，”汉密尔顿说。
“If I spend the next two years – my first two years in the Senate — in investigations, I’d be deeply disappointed,” Hamilton said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday. Pressed on whether he thought impeachment of Trump should be on the table, he said, “I’m not as interested in impeachment as setting guard rails.”“I don’t want to see us spend the next two years dividing our country further,” Hamilton said. The post Todd Blanche threatens to prosecute lawmakers planning oversight probes MS NOW