One top House Democrat is saying that he plans to target even officials who have already left President Donald Trump’s administration, claiming that his “pettiness” might simply be a function of the fact that he is gay.
The moment it became clear that Democrats were taking control of the House of Representatives, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) — who will likely chair the powerful House Oversight Committee as soon as the new Congress is seated — had warned his political opponents to “lawyer up,” promising retribution against members of the Trump administration. And according to his latest statements, he plans to target those who are no longer working in the administration in addition to those who are.
“Just because you’re Kimberly Guilfoyle or you’re Kristi Noem or you’re Pam Bondi and you’re no longer in office, that doesn’t mean that we’re still not interested in accountability for all your crimes and grift,” Garcia declared, not naming any specific crimes for which he believed those three women should be investigated.
“We’re not gonna forget, like, you know, like, we can’t forget about these folks that are causing harm. You know I think it’s like — it’s because I’m like, I’m gay, but like, you know, like pettiness is a thing,” he said.
“Like, I am mad, you know. … This is a moment in history where all the young people, like, are in our families, in our classrooms, they have to know that what’s happening right now is wrong. And to just move on does a disservice to the future of our country,” he continued.
Garcia also warned Trump’s newly appointed White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller that he should also “lawyer up,” but under direct questions from CNN anchor Dana Bash, he could not name a single crime that he believed Miller may have committed. Instead, he laid out a number of policies implemented by the Trump administration that he didn’t like and claimed that he planned to target Miller because he was “the architect” of some of them.
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