Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) warned President Donald Trump’s new White House Chief of Staff to “lawyer up” — but he could not name a single crime that might make that necessary.
Garcia aimed that warning at Stephen Miller, the long-time Trump adviser who was promoted to replace outgoing Chief of Staff Susie Wiles — but when CNN anchor Dana Bash asked what crime he believed Miller may have committed, Garcia could only name policies with which he disagreed.
The California congressman — who is poised to chair the powerful House Oversight Committee when Democrats take control of the chamber in January — sat down with Bash for Sunday’s broadcast of “State of the Union to discuss his party’s sweep of the midterm elections on Tuesday and what was likely to come in the next congress.
Garcia told Bash that President Trump’s DOJ had already threatened an investigation into him over comments he’d made in the past about bringing “weapons” to the “fight for democracy” — and complained that people within the administration had “thin skin.” He went on to say that Democrats had “a job to do,” and would do it whether the DOJ investigated them or not.
“Let me ask you about the job that you said you had...