白宫法律顾问威尔·沙夫周三誓言，将“竭尽全力”对抗承诺明年对特朗普政府展开全面调查的民主党议员，并声称这些调查“极不恰当”。
White House counsel Will Scharf on Wednesday vowed that he will fight “tooth and nail” against Democratic lawmakers pledging to open sweeping probes into the Trump administration next year, claiming their investigations are “inappropriate.”
“他们不能以给政府官员施加痛苦为目的进行调查，”沙夫在Newsmax的《罗布·施密特今夜秀》节目中说。“他们不能为了自我抬高而调查事情。这些是对国会权力极不恰当的使用。”“我们将拭目以待一月会发生什么，但如果他们想走这条路，我们已准备好竭尽全力应对，”他补充道。
“They can’t investigate for the purpose of inflicting pain on government officials,” Scharf said on “Rob Schmitt Tonight” on Newsmax. “They can’t investigate things for their own self-aggrandizement. These are blatantly inappropriate uses of Congress’s power.”“We’re going to 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 added.
沙夫表示，自中期选举以来，新当选和连任的民主党人中出现了“爆发式增长”，他们“谈论传票和调查，目的极其非法”，尽管民主党人在竞选途中曾誓言，如果赢得众参两院任何一院或两院的控制权，将对特朗普政府进行监督。
Scharf said that since the midterm elections, there had been an “explosion” of new and incumbent Democrats “talking about subpoenas and investigations for blatantly unlawful purposes,” though Democrats vowed to conduct oversight on the Trump administration if they won either or both chambers of Congress while on the campaign trail.
这位白宫法律顾问表示，政府“从一开始……就要定下基调”至关重要，并指责民主党人带回了特朗普在2024年连任前面临的“法律战”，称他希望该党“能从中吸取教训”。在2024年获胜前，特朗普正身陷多起法律诉讼，成为美国历史上首位因在2016年竞选期间伪造商业记录以掩盖桃色丑闻而被判所有罪名成立的前总统。
The White House counsel said that it was crucial that the administration “at the outset … set the tone” and accused Democrats of bringing back the “lawfare” President Trump faced before he was reelected in 2024, saying he hoped the party would have “learned a lesson from that.”Trump was in the midst of several legal cases ahead of his 2024 victory, becoming the first former president to be found guilty on all counts of falsifying business records to conceal alleged affairs during his 2016 campaign.
“民主党人唯一取得的成果，就是让唐纳德·J·特朗普总统重回他该在的白宫，”沙夫补充道。
“The only thing [Democrats] achieved was putting President Donald J. Trump back in the White House where he belongs,” Scharf added.
沙夫的言论正值他与即将上任的众议院监督委员会主席罗伯特·加西亚（民主党-加利福尼亚州）互怼之际，加西亚在民主党赢得中期选举后上周警告称，第120届国会开幕后，特朗普政府应当“请好律师”。
Scharf’s comments come amid a back-and-forth with incoming House Oversight Committee Chair Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), who warned last week after the Democrats’ midterm victories that the Trump administration should “lawyer up” after the start of the 120th Congress.
白宫律师本周予以反击，告知加西亚，这些调查及随后的传票可能构成犯罪活动。
The White House lawyer clapped back this week, telling Garcia that the investigations and subsequent subpoenas could amount to criminal activity.
他在致加西亚的信中写道：“滥用威胁和关于不加选择地发出传票的公开声明，以及针对政府内部潜在调查目标的威胁，清楚地表明，任何即将到来的调查程序都将被用来骚扰和自我抬高，而非推进任何合法的立法目的。”
“Abusive threats and public statements about the indiscriminate issuance of subpoenas, along with threats directed at prospective targets within the Administration make it abundantly clear that any forthcoming investigative processes will be deployed to harass and aggrandize, rather than to advance any legitimate legislative end,” he wrote in a letter to Garcia.
这位加州民主党众议员周三甚至点名了新任白宫幕僚长斯蒂芬·米勒，将其与即将到来的调查联系起来，称他“应该保存文件”。加西亚和其他民主党议员指责政府隐瞒真相，并强调他们拥有进行制衡的宪法授权。
The California Democrat even name-dropped newly appointed White House chief of staff Stephen Miller on Wednesday in connection with the incoming probes, saying he “should be preserving documents.”Garcia and other Democratic lawmakers accused the administration of hiding things and emphasized their constitutional authority to conduct checks and balances.
“因此，我们认为我们有权利，且宪法明确赋予我们权力，确保总统遵守法律，”众议院监督委员会民主党籍议员斯蒂芬·林奇（马萨诸塞州）在CNN上表示。“这非常基本，这就是核心职能……在这方面我代表主席发言，我相信。”
“So, we believe we have the right and we have been empowered expressly in the Constitution to make sure the president obeys the law,” Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.), an Oversight Democrat, said on CNN. “This is pretty basic, and so that’s the core function … and I speak on behalf of the chairman in this respect, I’m sure.”
当被问及沙夫威胁反向调查民主党人作为回应时，林奇说：“Come at me, bro.”（有种你就来啊。）
When asked about Scharf’s threat to investigate Democrats in response, Lynch said, “Come at me, bro.”