得克萨斯州一名联邦检察官周日警告参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦（民主党-马萨诸塞州），因其计划调查特朗普总统及其盟友，可能面临法律后果，并要求她保存与即将开展的国会监督工作相关的文件。得克萨斯州南区联邦检察官亚伦·赖茨（共和党）指责沃伦准备在明年接任参议院银行委员会主席后，针对与特朗普有关联的人士展开打击。
A federal prosecutor in Texas warned Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Sunday of potential legal consequences over her plans to investigate President Trump and his allies, demanding that she preserve documents related to her upcoming congressional oversight efforts. Aaron Reitz (R), the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Texas, accused Warren of preparing to target those associated with Trump when she takes over as chair of the Senate Banking Committee next year.
赖茨在社交平台X上发布的一封致沃伦的信中，形容这位参议员“正在战争路上，要像挥舞战斧一样挥舞委员会木槌，寻求那些与特朗普总统‘关系过密’之人的脑袋”。赖茨的信件及随附的社交媒体帖子提到了特朗普多次攻击沃伦过去声称拥有美洲原住民血统一事。“国会调查不能被用来惩罚美国人行使其第一修正案权利，”他在随信发布的X帖文中写道。
In a letter to Warren posted on the social platform X, Reitz described the senator as being "on the warpath to wield her committee gavel like a tomahawk, seeking the scalps of those who associate ‘too closely’ with President Trump.”Reiz’s letter and accompanying social media post references Trump’s multiple attacks against Warren over her past claims of Native American heritage. “Congressional investigations can’t be used to punish Americans for exercising their 1A rights,” he wrote in a post on X accompanying the letter.
“我的第一支箭射出了。”信中提到沃伦11月8日在哥伦比亚广播公司新闻节目《面对国家》上的露面，那是在中期选举后近一周，沃伦表示民主党将在中期选举夺回国会控制权后追究调查。“如果你们是通过欺骗美国家庭和欺诈投资者来获利的，最好为一些调查、严肃的调查做好准备，”沃伦对主持人玛格丽特·布伦南说道。
“My first arrow shot.”The letter referenced Warren’s Nov. 8 appearance on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” nearly one week after the midterm elections, where Warren said Democrats would pursue investigations after reclaiming control of Congress in the midterm elections. “If you’ve been making your profits by cheating American families and scamming your investors, you better get ready for some investigations, serious ones,” Warren told host Margaret Brennan.
曾任参议员特德·克鲁兹（共和党-得克萨斯州）幕僚长的赖茨辩称，这些言论发出了“强烈烟雾信号”，表明沃伦意图针对与特朗普关系密切的私人个体。“你有义务保存所有与你为压制与特朗普总统及特朗普政府相关的结社活动而做出的努力有关的潜在相关证据，”他写道，并补充称未能这样做可能导致法律后果。赖茨给沃伦（她未被指控犯罪）的截止日期是11月。
Reitz, a former chief of staff to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), argued that those remarks sent a “strong smoke signal” that Warren intended to target private individuals close to Trump. “You are obligated to preserve all potentially relevant evidence related to your efforts to suppress associational activities related to President Trump and the Trump Administration," he wrote, adding failure to do so may result in legal consequences. Reitz gave Warren, who has not been accused of a crime, until Nov. 23 to confirm that she received the letter and preserved the requested records.
23日确认她已收到信函并保存了要求的记录。他上周曾向参议员理查德·布卢门撒尔（民主党-康涅狄格州）和埃莉萨·斯洛特金（民主党-密歇根州）发出类似警告。白宫周日也支持赖茨的最新警告，指责民主党准备开展政治动机的调查。“像伊丽莎白·沃伦这样的民主党人正试图利用他们的职权，针对仅仅是与特朗普总统关系密切或与其共事的人，”白宫通讯主任史蒂文·张在X上写道。“这只不过是他们持续已久的政治猎巫行动的延续。”
He issued similar warnings last week to Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.). The White House also backed Reitz’s latest warning Sunday, accusing Democrats of preparing to pursue politically motivated investigations. “Democrats like Elizabeth Warren are looking to weaponize their positions against people who are simply close to President Trump or work with him,” White House communications director Steven Cheung wrote on X. “This is nothing more than an extension of their political witch-hunt that has gone on for far too long.”