Congressional Democrats Fishing for Crimes for Upcoming ‘Investigations’

“Show me the man, I’ll find you the crime,” is attributed to Lavrenty Beria, the chief of the Soviet secret police under Josef Stalin, who was notorious for putting Stalin’s suspected opponents through show trials before sending them to the gulags.

Beria targeted “the man” first, then proceeded to find or fabricate a crime.

Americans are about to witness similar tactics.

Before California’s election was even closed, Congressman Robert Garcia (D-CA) posted “Lawyer Up” on X, Election Day at 7:18pm.

LAWYER UP.

— Congressman Robert Garcia (@RepRobertGarcia) November 4, 2026

Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) joined in, and on November 6 said that Democrats will use “oversight, investigations, subpoenas, and our leverage over federal funding” against the Trump administration after Trump named Stephen Miller as the next White House Chief of Staff.

Running to be first in line, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said CEOs, Wall Street executives, and giant corporations “better get ready for some investigations, serious ones,” on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

Host Margaret Brennan asked Warren, “is your focus going to be legislation or is it going to be investigation?”

“Look, we have to do both,” Warren replied. “But I do want to be clear: if you’ve been making your profits by cheating American families and scamming your investors, you better get ready for some investigations, serious ones.”

When host Margaret Brennan asked who she had in mind, Warren replied: “Anyone who’s been cheating. That’s what investigations are all about.” She added that she did not yet have a specific list of subpoena targets and emphasized following proper investigative steps, while criticizing the Trump administration for what she described as failing to enforce laws against companies that “cheated” consumers, including claims about investigations being dropped after contributions, CBS reported.

“Show me the man, I’ll find you the crime.”

“OK. So you don’t have a list of people you plan to subpoena yet, you – even though you’re going to be in this chair?” Brennan asked.

Sen. Warren said “I – it is important that we go through the steps for investigation. Because, look, the American people are just damn sick of this. They are sick of a White House that wouldn’t enforce the laws even when they got cheated. They are sick of a White House that dropped investigations, that said, oh, if you make a nice contribution to Donald Trump’s ballroom…”

This interview took place Sunday, in the immediate aftermath of the 2026 midterms, in which Democrats took control of both chambers of Congress. Warren is expected to chair the Senate Banking Committee.

She has said she intends to investigate Big Tech CEOs, Wall Street executives, large banks, and Trump-linked crypto businesses.

This should be interesting, if Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has anything to say. He recently publicly mocked Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s grasp of banking and financial markets on X:

In her latest sciolistic letter to me, @SenWarren made it clear that she knows even less about foreign exchange markets than she does about banking. What is equally shocking, but not surprising: not a single member of the media mob has a rudimentary-enough level of financial market literacy to spot her remedial error. To reiterate: under @POTUS, the United States delivers for America’s trusted partners. For a fuller explanation, I recommend Senator Warren take any entry level course in international finance for her and her staff, or I can personally give her a tutorial on Foreign Exchange for Dummies. Although I am not holding my breath, I hope her next letter will demonstrate that she has learned the difference between a currency purchase and a swap or a loan.

In her latest sciolistic letter to me, @SenWarren made it clear that she knows even less about foreign exchange markets than she does about banking.

What is equally shocking, but not surprising: not a single member of the media mob has a rudimentary-enough level of financial market literacy to spot her remedial error.

To reiterate: under @POTUS, the United States delivers for America’s trusted partners.

For a fuller explanation, I recommend Senator Warren take any entry level course in international finance for her and her staff, or I can personally give her a tutorial on Foreign Exchange for Dummies. Although I am not holding my breath, I hope her next letter will demonstrate that she has learned the difference between a currency purchase and a swap or a loan.

— Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (@SecScottBessent) August 28, 2026

A similar exchange over Warren’s economic illiteracy occurred in October over rising Treasury yields and borrowing costs. Bessent replied to another Warren letter by accusing her of a “complete paucity of knowledge about financial markets,” repeating the “Foreign Exchange for Dummies” offer, and adding “Fixed Income for Dummies” if she passed on the “Yale metric, not the Harvard curve.”

Secretary Bessent included a handwritten note wishing her a “Happy Indigenous People’s Day,” a hilarious dig at her past ancestry claims.

How does any of this help the American people with affordability, healthcare, jobs, and gas prices?