House Republicans already had floated the use of congressional appropriations power to retaliate against the state felony charges filed against Donald Trump — and then came the former president’s all-caps post on social media Wednesday.
Trump called for Congress to “DEFUND THE DOJ AND FBI UNTIL THEY COME TO THEIR SENSES,” in a Truth Social post that followed his arraignment on 34 charges of falsifying business records tied to hush payments to two women prior to the 2016 election.
Trump also gave a speech at his Florida club, Mar-a-Lago, on Tuesday night, where he railed against the multiple criminal investigations against him, called Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg a “criminal” and federal special prosecutor Jack Smith a “real lunatic” for investigating the lead-up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
