{"id":7442,"date":"2026-02-28T13:04:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=7442"},"modified":"2026-02-28T13:04:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:04:02","slug":"democrats-vow-revenge-against-corporations-that-courted-trump-if-they-take-back-power-after-the-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=7442","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Vow Revenge Against Corporations that Courted Trump if They Take Back Power After the Midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Democrats are weighing how to target corporations that have courted President Donald Trump\u2019s approval if they retake the House after the midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>Semafor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/02\/27\/2026\/democrats-weigh-how-harshly-to-go-after-firms-courted-by-trump\">reported<\/a> that, given Democrats\u2019 chances of retaking the House, top Democrats are now devising how to focus on alleged corruption in the Trump administration amongst other issues in their investigative agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s opportunities to look at not just corporations that we think are enabling some of Trump\u2019s corruption, but certainly corporations that are not supporting American families and not really focusing on affordability,\u201d Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, said.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, said he might focus on potential violations of the Emoluments Clause, which bars the president from receiving gifts from foreign powers or American taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cardinal, original sin of Trump was to decide that he was going to use the presidency as a profit-making enterprise in his first term, and I would say that Congress should have impeached him for receiving millions and millions of dollars from foreign governments,\u201d Raskin remarked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">\u201cIf 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,\u201d Raskin continued.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"\/>\n<p>Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said, \u201cParamount 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2027405872998109660\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisMurphyCT\/status\/2027405872998109660\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce we take power, whoever the president is, we\u2019re going to break up your companies,\u201d Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo 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\u2019re likely going to end up getting fired as the CEO because you wasted so much money and corrupted yourself in the process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think you can do like 100 [companies] but I think you can do three and start with that,\u201d said Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) said of antitrust investigations. \u201cYou can\u2019t do everything, but you\u2019ve got to pick a few of the worst and focus there.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2026\/02\/27\/democrats-vow-revenge-against-corporations-that-courted-trump-if-they-take-back-power-after-the-midterms\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats are weighing how to target corporations that have courted President Donald Trump\u2019s approval if they retake the House after the midterm elections. 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