Since the Democrats won the House of Representatives in the 2018 midterm elections, Democrats have begun to list all the investigations they want to undertake against President Trump. The President did a tit-for-tat rejoinder to Democrats, threatening to declassify potentially damaging documents if they continue to harass his administration.
Trump warns Democrats
With Democrats set to take control of the House of Representatives next year, the President is concerned that upstart liberal lawmakers will purposefully disrupt his agenda in an effort to score political points.
The issue weighing on everyone’s mind is, of course, the prospect of impeachment. (RELATED: Pelosi Admits Dem-Controlled House Would Seek To Impeach Trump.)
Trump isn’t one to sit idly by, expecting an assault on his office and character. He’s pre-emptively fighting back, and he’s threatening to use a devastating weapon.
The threat of declassification
The New York Post reports:
In a wide-ranging, exclusive interview with The Post, President Trump said Wednesday that if House Democrats launched probes into his administration — which he called “presidential harassment” — they’d pay a heavy price.
“If they go down the presidential harassment track, if they want go and harass the president and the administration, I think that would be the best thing that would happen to me. I’m a counter-puncher and I will hit them so hard they’d never been hit like that,” he said during a 36-minute Oval Office sitdown.
So what would Trump declassify? Documents related to the Mueller probe and the Obama administration’s deliberate attempt to set his campaign up. More from the report:
The commander-in-chief said he could declassify FISA warrant applications and other documents from Robert Mueller’s probe — and predicted the disclosure would expose the FBI, the Justice Department and the Clinton campaign as being in cahoots to set him up.
“I think that would help my campaign. If they want to play tough, I will do it. They will see how devastating those pages are.”
As president, Trump knows how damaging such a declassification would be. Some GOP lawmakers have hinted that a full-scale declassification would totally undermine the ongoing Mueller probe, proving it’s a charade. (RELATED: FBI Has Evidence That ‘Directly Refutes’ Premise Of Trump-Russia Probe, GOP Rep Says.)
Of course, the President has access to all types of dirty secrets when it comes to his opponents. Trump knows way more about sitting Democrat lawmakers than they do him. The potential secrets he could unleash could easily silence a few dissenters.
Trump’s history of declassification
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Trump already declassified a particular tranche of documents related to the Russian probe earlier this year. The move highlighted the improper steps the FBI used to first begin spying on Trump under the Obama administration. (RELATED: Here’s What You Need To Know About Trump’s Declassification Order.)
Trump has already proven he’s willing to use all the tools at his disposable to defeat his enemies. Democrats should take his threat seriously.
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It is disappointing that President Trump will use this as a “threat” to the democrats; he SHOULD release those documents regardless and let the truth be known. The American voters who elected him want the whole world to know the truth about what is going on in this country. Then and only then will this country regain the respect of the other nations.
DO IT! Don’t wait any longer.
One lousy look at the evidence revealed by the Judicial Watch and OBSTRUCTED AND INTERFERED WITH BY BOTH OBAMA ATTORNEY GENERALS, Holder and Lynch, the Benghazi fiasco and the Iran Nuke deal, The rigging attempt not by TRUMP , but by all those mentioned as well as Comey, McCabe and Mueller who NEVER should have been named as special :Prosecutor with his long term ties to the Clintons! TALK ABOUT CONSPIRACY AND COLLUSION!; how about Treason and sedition ongoing by these cretins to anyone with half a brain who has eyes with which to see, ears with which to listen and a functioning brain to analyze the data provided and come to your OWN conclusions based on evidence and hard fact as well as the pitiful performance records in BOTH parties throughout the entire corrupt Congress which serves NOTHING AND NO ONE but itself and its members in self-aggrandizing schemes and enhancement of political ambitions, all the while pushing party agendas and all to our DETRIMENT and tax and spend Fiscal irresponsibility that has resulted in a near 22 Trillion dollar debt they will NOT address and, try to add to by allowing the flood of foreign felons into this country :UNCEASINGLY! It is the entire criminal Congress that CREATED this mess Trump has been trying to remedy. TRUTH be told: it is Congress and the leftist courts who modify the Constitution to fit their twisted Agendas that should ALL be where they belong: IN PRISON FOREVER! Damned few of them are competent to SERVE anyone or anything but themselves and they should all be removed and replaced by those who WILL do their jobs, live up to their Sworn oaths and Serve their AMERICAN CITIZEN CONSTITUENTS; especially Seniors, Veterans Active Military and their families and the over burdened Middle Class and NOT every Illegal so-called immigrant when many are outright criminals and cartel members, MS-13 scum and Jihadists posing as Hispanics! You wanted to know what I thought about all this ongoing BS? HOW DO
THE THOUGHTS OF THIS 100% DISABLED VIETNAM VETERAN GRAB YA!!? HUH? I have had a degree in Government for nearly 52 years, two of which were spent after Vietnam in Washington, D.C. as staff as Walter Reed Army Medical Center, then on Georgia Ave, N.W and unlike those in government: I KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT! They are mostly nothing more than petty criminals and career parasites who sit in session only about 124 days out of a year, MAKE $174,000 PER ANNUM BUT MOSTLY LIVE WELL BEYOND THEIR MEANS AND THEY SHOULD ALL BE AUDITED; EVERY DAMNED ONE OF THEM! Trump wrote the Art of the Deal – They practice the Act of the Steal;among other equally unjust and unsavory things!THEY ALL NEED TO BE HELD RESPONSIBLE AND ACCOUNTABLE TO THE ELECTORATE! PERIOD
If these classified docs have not been released, then how would you know he edited them? Who told you that nonsense.
Did you happen to notice that Trump didn’t really declassify the documents. He edited them to keep the embarrassing information secret.
If the President wants to declassify the entire batch of FISA documents that would be great.
The DumboRATS have always played dirty. It would be of great interest to the AMERIVAN PEOPLE to know the whole truth about the DumboRATS and the DNC.
It makes you wonder what he is waiting for? Does he have a specific time/date in mind?
This country lacks a free press, one that will shine a light of truth on corruption and criminal actions. I just watched the movie “Biosludged” on Breigheon.com It makes you wonder if people are just stupid thinking they will never have to pay the piper..
Release the Kraken. Wont hurt Democrats. It happened in the most transparent administration in history. Just ask them.
Stop with the threats to declassify them and DO IT.. RELEASE THESE for the people to see.. EVERYONE needs to know what these democRATS have been doing… Do NOT leave the American people in the dark any longer…
Release some of them now, and hold onto others for later, give them a taste of what could happen, don’t play all your cards at once.
I’m not sure why anyone would wait to help expose the real criminals??? Now that sessions the swamp protector is gone, all needs to be exposed.
I don’t get it. Warns? Warns hell. Do it. I voted for Trump but sometimes I have to wonder about the man. Why is Mule-Faced Muller’s butt-boy,Rosenstein still at the Justice Dept? Why isn’t Clinton,Comey,Strzok and the Ohrs in prison? Does Trump think this left-wing scum is suddenly going to start loving him? Way past time to fight back.
Mr. President, release the Fisa Warrant Applications and any other documents you have that will finally DESTROY The Democrat-Communist-Islamic-Nazi Terrorist Organization. FORTHWITH
He needs to do this in such a way as it is taken as non-partisan so we never have a President, like Obama, allow this again. He should not threaten it. He should do it.
He could have done this sooner ,but was holding back till such a time as this.It will expose Hillary,s dealing with the Russians and the fisa court and her paying 10.000.000 for the dirty dossier on Trump. He is smarter then most give him credit for. There is your Russian collusion With Hitllary. Devin Nunes has it all ready to go,
FYI, the president is in charge of all declassification. After he declassifies a document, it is no longer classified.
List the ten?
And offer proof of accusation. You have 10 proveable impeachable instances or 10 accusations? Do you know the difference. The over whelming majority of people on this page do.
coniewala , You are are a left wing loonie.
Go ahead and declassify confidential information all because you want to throw a temper tantrum. It’s just another impeachable offense, that will now make 10.
So do it, chump. What’s holdin’ ya back?
According to the Müeller Inquisition, Trump is not the target. That is if you trust a prosecutor that convicted Louie Greco, Henry Tameleo, Peter Limone and Joe Salvati (2, Louie Greco, Henry Tameleo, died in prison and cost the taxpayers an eventual settlement of more than $100 million for false imprisonment) he knew they were innocent. Looks like he’s at it again.
Mule-faced Mueller, Clinton and Soros are a much greater risk to National Security. Release them!
If he declassifies everything, that might be a threat to national security in ways we do not know.
Do it! Do it! Do it, President Trump! DECLASSIFY EVERYTHING—
It is disappointing that President Trump will use this as a “threat” to the democrats; he SHOULD release those documents regardless and let the truth be known. The American voters who elected him want the whole world to know the truth about what is going on in this country. Then and only then will this country regain the respect of the other nations.
DO IT! Don’t wait any longer.
One lousy look at the evidence revealed by the Judicial Watch and OBSTRUCTED AND INTERFERED WITH BY BOTH OBAMA ATTORNEY GENERALS, Holder and Lynch, the Benghazi fiasco and the Iran Nuke deal, The rigging attempt not by TRUMP , but by all those mentioned as well as Comey, McCabe and Mueller who NEVER should have been named as special :Prosecutor with his long term ties to the Clintons! TALK ABOUT CONSPIRACY AND COLLUSION!; how about Treason and sedition ongoing by these cretins to anyone with half a brain who has eyes with which to see, ears with which to listen and a functioning brain to analyze the data provided and come to your OWN conclusions based on evidence and hard fact as well as the pitiful performance records in BOTH parties throughout the entire corrupt Congress which serves NOTHING AND NO ONE but itself and its members in self-aggrandizing schemes and enhancement of political ambitions, all the while pushing party agendas and all to our DETRIMENT and tax and spend Fiscal irresponsibility that has resulted in a near 22 Trillion dollar debt they will NOT address and, try to add to by allowing the flood of foreign felons into this country :UNCEASINGLY! It is the entire criminal Congress that CREATED this mess Trump has been trying to remedy. TRUTH be told: it is Congress and the leftist courts who modify the Constitution to fit their twisted Agendas that should ALL be where they belong: IN PRISON FOREVER! Damned few of them are competent to SERVE anyone or anything but themselves and they should all be removed and replaced by those who WILL do their jobs, live up to their Sworn oaths and Serve their AMERICAN CITIZEN CONSTITUENTS; especially Seniors, Veterans Active Military and their families and the over burdened Middle Class and NOT every Illegal so-called immigrant when many are outright criminals and cartel members, MS-13 scum and Jihadists posing as Hispanics! You wanted to know what I thought about all this ongoing BS? HOW DO
THE THOUGHTS OF THIS 100% DISABLED VIETNAM VETERAN GRAB YA!!? HUH? I have had a degree in Government for nearly 52 years, two of which were spent after Vietnam in Washington, D.C. as staff as Walter Reed Army Medical Center, then on Georgia Ave, N.W and unlike those in government: I KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT! They are mostly nothing more than petty criminals and career parasites who sit in session only about 124 days out of a year, MAKE $174,000 PER ANNUM BUT MOSTLY LIVE WELL BEYOND THEIR MEANS AND THEY SHOULD ALL BE AUDITED; EVERY DAMNED ONE OF THEM! Trump wrote the Art of the Deal – They practice the Act of the Steal;among other equally unjust and unsavory things!THEY ALL NEED TO BE HELD RESPONSIBLE AND ACCOUNTABLE TO THE ELECTORATE! PERIOD
Did you happen to notice that Trump didn’t really declassify the documents. He edited them to keep the embarrassing information secret.
If the President wants to declassify the entire batch of FISA documents that would be great.
If these classified docs have not been released, then how would you know he edited them? Who told you that nonsense.
The DumboRATS have always played dirty. It would be of great interest to the AMERIVAN PEOPLE to know the whole truth about the DumboRATS and the DNC.
It makes you wonder what he is waiting for? Does he have a specific time/date in mind?
This country lacks a free press, one that will shine a light of truth on corruption and criminal actions. I just watched the movie “Biosludged” on Breigheon.com It makes you wonder if people are just stupid thinking they will never have to pay the piper..
Release the Kraken. Wont hurt Democrats. It happened in the most transparent administration in history. Just ask them.
Stop with the threats to declassify them and DO IT.. RELEASE THESE for the people to see.. EVERYONE needs to know what these democRATS have been doing… Do NOT leave the American people in the dark any longer…
Release some of them now, and hold onto others for later, give them a taste of what could happen, don’t play all your cards at once.
I don’t get it. Warns? Warns hell. Do it. I voted for Trump but sometimes I have to wonder about the man. Why is Mule-Faced Muller’s butt-boy,Rosenstein still at the Justice Dept? Why isn’t Clinton,Comey,Strzok and the Ohrs in prison? Does Trump think this left-wing scum is suddenly going to start loving him? Way past time to fight back.
I’m not sure why anyone would wait to help expose the real criminals??? Now that sessions the swamp protector is gone, all needs to be exposed.
Mr. President, release the Fisa Warrant Applications and any other documents you have that will finally DESTROY The Democrat-Communist-Islamic-Nazi Terrorist Organization. FORTHWITH
He needs to do this in such a way as it is taken as non-partisan so we never have a President, like Obama, allow this again. He should not threaten it. He should do it.
He could have done this sooner ,but was holding back till such a time as this.It will expose Hillary,s dealing with the Russians and the fisa court and her paying 10.000.000 for the dirty dossier on Trump. He is smarter then most give him credit for. There is your Russian collusion With Hitllary. Devin Nunes has it all ready to go,
Go ahead and declassify confidential information all because you want to throw a temper tantrum. It’s just another impeachable offense, that will now make 10.
coniewala , You are are a left wing loonie.
List the ten?
And offer proof of accusation. You have 10 proveable impeachable instances or 10 accusations? Do you know the difference. The over whelming majority of people on this page do.
FYI, the president is in charge of all declassification. After he declassifies a document, it is no longer classified.
So do it, chump. What’s holdin’ ya back?
Do it! Do it! Do it, President Trump! DECLASSIFY EVERYTHING—
If he declassifies everything, that might be a threat to national security in ways we do not know.
Mule-faced Mueller, Clinton and Soros are a much greater risk to National Security. Release them!
According to the Müeller Inquisition, Trump is not the target. That is if you trust a prosecutor that convicted Louie Greco, Henry Tameleo, Peter Limone and Joe Salvati (2, Louie Greco, Henry Tameleo, died in prison and cost the taxpayers an eventual settlement of more than $100 million for false imprisonment) he knew they were innocent. Looks like he’s at it again.