Democrats worry that targeting President Donald Trump’s children will have political ramifications and hope to shift the brunt of that legal burden to federal prosecutors, according to a Wednesday Politico report.
They worry that targeting his family could earn Trump sympathy from onlookers.
By the same token, Trump’s children — particularly Ivanka, Donald Jr. and Eric — are so intertwined in his businesses and political career that it would be difficult to leave them out of the investigations altogether. Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner is also clearly a significant person of interest.
The chairpeople of the most important House committees may try to put off calling the Trump children in to testify until absolutely necessary.
Brewing em in. Otherwise it’s dereliction of duty.
One of the more handwring-ier offerings here at TPM
ETA I see it’s not AP. Is it steath AP?
IF the Dems are truly worried about this are feckless (in every sense of the word)… BUT this is from Politico so I would hope this is just another obvious attempt to spread disunity within the Ds
Well let’s continue to do nothing, that always gets things done.
As usual with congress, the most important question: ‘what are the optics?’