Democrats are an organized crime ring.
And among the many criminal schemes they use to pillage America and corrupt the government, they run a protection racket.
Sen. Gallego was blunter to @daveweigel :
— Nicholas Wu (@nicholaswu12) February 27, 2026
“Once we take power, whoever the president is, we’re going to break up your companies” https://t.co/uwFjZbtIFT pic.twitter.com/2lagTzzTeD
One of the major tools the Democrats used to bully social media companies during the first Trump administration was constant threats from the top Democrats to use regulations and antitrust laws to break up the tech giants unless they started silencing Americans the Democrats disapproved of. They called it "disinformation" and "malinformation," but most of it was just dissent.
We all know how that turned out.
Now Democrats are expanding their protection racket, plotting "revenge" on companies they deem insufficiently anti-Trump.
Top Democrats are weighing how harshly they would go after corporations that have courted President Donald Trump’s approval, if they retake the House in November.
As businesses greet House Democrats’ rising midterm prospects with prep for a flurry of subpoenas and information requests, the party’s lawmakers are already drawing CEOs a roadmap for their potential majority. Judiciary Committee Democrats have sent missives since last year to Paramount, Hewlett-Packard and Alphabet, and Oversight Committee Democrats have homed in on fundraising for the White House’s ballroom renovation.
Rep. Robert Garcia, the Oversight panel’s top Democrat, told Semafor he would focus on alleged corruption in the Trump administration, Jeffrey Epstein, immigration enforcement, and even cost-of-living issues. He said his office has already contacted some corporations about a future investigative agenda.
“There’s opportunities to look at not just corporations that we think are enabling some of Trump’s corruption, but certainly corporations that are not supporting American families and not really focusing on affordability,” Garcia said.
I've already written about Susan Rice's explicit threats to American corporations, and now Semaphor writes that this is an explicit strategy of the Democratic Party as a whole.
Join or Die.
So far, however, Democrats have clearly shown more interest in investigating high-profile mergers like the Hewlett-Packard takeover of Juniper Networks, and the ouster of former Trump Justice Department antitrust chief Gail Slater.
“Once we take power, whoever the president is, we’re going to break up your companies,” Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., told Semafor. “So all the investment you did to create these mergers are going to be for naught. Your investors are going to be pissed at you, and you’re likely going to end up getting fired as the CEO because you wasted so much money and corrupted yourself in the process.”
Republicans in the House are repeatedly amplifying the prospect of Trump-linked investigations, into corporations or the president himself, as a reason to deny Democrats control of a chamber that they would use to pursue grievances at the expense of policymaking.
“If we find wrongdoing, we will do our part in investigating. But right now, we just see a lot of smoke and mirrors and a lot of gamesmanship by the Democrats,” said Oversight Committee Chair Rep. James Comer, R-Ky.
Every time a Democrat accuses a Republican of some violation of "laws" or "norms," assume they are telling on themselves.
It's not that they have evidence that Republicans are engaged in things like lawfare; it's rather that they assume Republicans are doing these things because that is what THEY do when they are in power.
Paramount should enjoy its growing news monopoly while they have it because when Democrats win back power we are going to break up these anti-democratic information conglomerates. All of them. https://t.co/iyfgIIJ5rG
— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) February 27, 2026
Look at all the revelations coming out about the Jack Smith investigation. An illegal special counsel doing an illegal investigation using illegal tactics to prosecute a non-crime. He bugged the Trump campaign, broke attorney-client privilege with Trump's CAMPAIGN MANAGER and the current Director of the FBI; it makes Watergate look terribly quaint.
Susan Rice offers a taste of what’s coming should the left retake power — promises Democrats will punish corporations and other institutions who have “taken a knee to Trump.”
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) February 20, 2026
“It’s not going to end well for them."
“If these corporations think that the Democrats, when they come… pic.twitter.com/Hr4Lk5oica
Biden paid Fani Willis $18 million to prosecute Trump. He sent the #2 at the Justice Department to run the Alvin Bragg Trump prosecution.
Of COURSE they assume that Republicans are doing all sorts of nefarious stuff. It's what they do.
Still, it's a bit startling to see the Democrats tell journalists that they are doing a shakedown of major corporations, demanding utter fealty to the Democratic Party.
I suppose they, rightfully, assume that Pravda will put this all in a good light, and signal to corporate leaders that they are certain that they can destroy any company they like without worrying about the consequences.
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