WashingtonTrump ordered the Justice Department to investigate Democrats.
Impeachment threats and oversight letters are the alleged crime, and Trump offered no evidence.
Democrats won both chambers of the US Congress Tuesday and promised probes of Trump family finances, immigration enforcement and Pete Hegseth.
Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan said Trump had Stephen Miller “draft a tweet threatening to put me in jail.”
Democrats gain subpoena and hearing powers when the new Congress sits in January.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 70+ reports worldwide
- Raw Story leans critical
- gathers commentary calling the post a 'Bunker End Game' sign, quoting Olbermann and Kasdan on the lame-duck president's conduct
- Al Jazeera Online
- reports the DOJ order as following Democrats' midterm win, noting Trump gave no evidence and that Democrats plan probes into Hegseth and Blanche
- TRT World
- frames the dispute as 'weaponisation and lawfare' and quotes Trump calling on Republicans to 'get smart, fast!'
- Asianet News Network Pvt Ltd
- reports Trump's instruction that Republican donors send threats directly to his White House desk, not only to the DOJ
Sources: Raw Story, Al Jazeera Online, TRT World, Asianet News Network Pvt Ltd