Trump 'really worried': Analyst says one threat has House Republicans scrambling

One looming threat to President Donald Trump that has House Republicans scrambling, a political analyst said Thursday morning.

Commentator Molly Jong-Fast took to BlueSky to share a Semafor report she argued showcases one of Trump’s top concerns should Republicans lose the House in the midterm elections.

“Trump,” Jong-Fast wrote, is “really really worried about being investigated.”

The Semafor article shared by Jong-Fast details a highly aggressive and "unorthodox" tactic House Republicans might use to hold onto power as the minority party: investigations.

While the minority party typically doesn’t have the power to produce much testimony, House Republicans could still feasibly target Trump challengers by relying on support from his administration, reporter Nicholas Wu argued.

“If the Trump Justice Department takes an aggressive approach against corporations and institutions seen as running afoul of the administration’s priorities,” wrote Wu, “Republicans’ investigative pursuits will actually have teeth.”

Oversight Committee member Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) told Wu the Justice Department could serve as an ally to House Republicans by processing their minority referrals and providing a "a criminal component.”

James Mandolfo, the attorney who investigated former President Joe Biden’s family, believes House Republicans might be able to pull it off with support from the executive branch.

"The Republican minority will be among the strongest in history because they likely will have the Trump administration backing them on core issues," Mandolfo said to Semafor.

"The Trump administration could take action against those companies/institutions that don't comply with any requests from the minority."

But an obstacle remains, argued Wu: Republican infighting.

“There’s no guarantee that congressional Republicans and the Trump administration will be completely aligned,” Wu wrote. “There was friction between some Oversight Committee Republicans and the Justice Department earlier this Congress, after the GOP-controlled panel voted to subpoena then-Attorney General Pam Bondi in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation."