House Democrats have already gone to war with Donald Trump. But there’s one target they're skittish of hitting too hard: his children
House Democrats have already gone to war with President Donald Trump. But there’s one target they're skittish of hitting too hard: his children.
Yet Trump’s family members — including Donald Jr., Eric, Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner — are so deeply involved in his business and presidency that it likely would be impossible to take a completely hands-off approach. “Maybe at some point we have to call them in,” Connolly added, “but I’d rather let prosecutors look at that.”Sign Up
Those concerns have more to do with political optics than investigative necessities: Democrats fear that the appearance of going after Trump’s children is the one thing that could elicit sympathy for a president who has attacked Democratic investigations as “a big, fat, fishing expedition desperately in search of a crime” and “presidential harassment.”
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